how can i get widescren display on my new Dell 3010?

[Gary Kline]

	After my third slug of coffee, I am awake!  

	here are some more random facts that may/may-not be useful.

	one member in my writing group recently bought a =new= laptop
	to use with Doze and linux.  he is a tech writer and very sharp, 
	but knew little about linux.  I introduced him to ubuntu.  I 
	have been using ubuntu for some five years. IMO, it is better 
	than most distributions.  he just bought a "Gateway Win7" at 
	Fry's, which is a quasi-discounter here in the states.  --from
	your TZ, Im guessing you are somewhere is oz.  at any rate, this
	fellows told me::


 MS has what's call=
 ed secure boot on Win8 (it prevents people installing alternate OSs --
 spit=
 ting into the peanut butter jar). I hope they didn't start doing that for
 remaining Win7 systems. Guess I'll find out. </P>


 	I assume that his win7 did not have this UEFI interference, but
	it is an indication of what's coming.  more hack-arounds.





On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:49:48PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:24:29PM +0900, nomnex wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:54:55 -0800
> > > Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 	I honestly do NOT know what I did to fix the UEFI "thing"::
> > > 	unless I followed somebody's hand-waving: "you can fix this
> > > in the BIOS."
> > 
> > Okay, so you disabled UEFI in the BIOS, and you are in Legacy mode (I
> > guess) running F17 only. Did not know UEFI was already enabled on W7
> > machines
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > 	When you find a new machine, please do share which model and
> > > 	make, etc.  the tech I hired found me this model that  was 
> > 
> > I will. It will be a Window8. I hope that won't make any difference.
> 
> 
> 	what do you mean, windows8?  I have never run run windows--not
> 	even to torture myself.  I have only run unix: sun, bsd, linux.
> 
> 
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 Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
              Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.