--- Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
On Monday 31 March 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
--- Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
It would be stupid for the motherboard to default to lacking USB keyboard support, so it might be worthwhile to use the CMOS reset jumper.
The motherboard does, however, default to the crappy onboard video (with an astounding 4MB of video ram) when the CMOS is reset, and must be told manually that another form of video is present.
Yes, but once the BIOS has USB support enabled, you can use the USB keyboard to go in there and change other settings. ;)
True, but in the event that the computer engineers assumed a PS/2 keyboard was the default for CMOS, I'd much rather figure out how to save and restore the CMOS first, rather than reset the CMOS and be left with a system which can't be used to show off Beryl/Compiz on a widescreen DLP projection screen TV... :(
The AGP card is a nVidia Geforce 6200 with 128MB VRAM, which through the use of those evil proprietary drivers allows nifty Beryl/Compiz demonstrations. I have *never* heard of someone getting Beryl/Compiz to work on a nVidia RIVA TNT2 video chipset with 4MB VRAM, otherwise known as the "onboard video".
Ubuntu has even gone beyond the TV manual and doesn't limit itself to the 1024x768 stated in the TV manual as "maximum PC graphics resolution", but rather expands itself out to a very nice widescreen 1280x720 (Windows XP, however, does limit itself to 1024x768 on this TV). I really don't want to lose that over the next few months while I can't afford to just buy a completely-functional PC.
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