Comment 145 for bug 495553

Ubuntu 11.04 'natty narwhal' seems to work well on this system, which is pleasantly surprising!

I downloaded the ISO 2 days ago, and burnt a DVD from the image. As before, the live CD was unable to determine the actual resolution of the screen (1024x768, Unichrome controller) and set a higher resolution. However the System>Preferences>Monitors dialog was accessible, so I was able to set the proper resolution, and the copy in the xorg.conf file I have used previously, log out, then log in again in 1024x768 resolution. I was able to switch to text consoles and back without any problems. So I decided to install the 11.04 system (instead of Debian Lenny, which I had been using). On rebooting, setting 1024x768 resolution, and installing the xorg.conf file, the installed system worked properly.

I note that Unity does not work with this display and the Openchrome driver, but Gnome works (with a nagging popup reminding me about that!). After some confusion about the popup, I finally found that I was able to use the System>Administration>Login Screen dialog to set the legacy Gnome UI as the default. I left a comment about that on the Ubuntu forum.

After that, installation of Apache2, MySQL, PHP5, openssh-server, and other software I use frequently went well. I'll keep updating 11.04 until release.