Linux.com

I did the upgrade route for two systems and the upgrades fairly screamed once I realized that the servers comprising us.archive.ubuntu.com and archive.ubuntu.com were completely swamped and tweaked /etc/hosts to have us.archive.ubuntu.com point to a server in another country. As for a dual head configuration, that actually worked better on 8.04 than on 7.10, but I had already seeded the xorg.conf with Option "Monitor-XXXX" "XXXX" lines and put in a set of canned mode lines for a monitor that fails to return mode information. Unfortunately X still insists on placing the xinerama hint for :0.0 on crtc0 which is the attached monitor instead of the laptop display. But this is an xrandr shortcoming and not an ubuntu shortcoming.

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