[Tfug] Need help finding a distro

[erich]

Yeah,
         That's what I suspected when I saw this. This is a new version 
of xorg-server that
mediates mouse & keyboard thru HAL.

                                                                                                                   
Erich

Paul Scott wrote:
> earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
>
> Are you back?
>> I work at World Care checking out III computers for the store.  We sold
>> some computers with Ubuntu 7.10 installed.  Things were working 
>> fine.  The
>> 7.10 repositories are now closed.
>>
>> I went to Ubuntu 8.04 because it is LTS.  It worked great.  I set up 
>> a few
>> with a Cisco Wireless card and they worked fine too.  These machines are
>> PIII 800+ with 385 MB memory.
>>
>> In going to 8.04 we encountered a problem.  Plugging a different monitor
>> brings the video down.  Not just to 800x600 but to totally unusable.  
>> OK,
>> switch to a console and run 'sudo dpkg -reconfigure -phigh xserver 
>> -xorg';
>> that always works. 
>
> Not if 8.04 is using Hal which pretty well doesn't use xorg.conf.  
> When Hal is running well switching monitors would only need restarting X
>
> Paul Scott
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