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ubiquity package

Live CD Installer can't install at 800x600

Bug #187662 reported by jshanks on 2008-01-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #38442: Ubiquity dialogues too large for 800x600 display. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The initial "Install" window popped up by the installer on the desktop is not scrollable, resizeable or small enough to display at 800x600.

On any machine where the Live CD cannot detect the video properly, the default resolution is 800x600. That would be no big deal if it were possible to just install at that point and then fix the video configuration. Problem is, the only way to install is with the Alternate CD as you can't press a "Next" button that you can't see.

This problem was reported before in Gutsy, and now really should be fixed as most of the window is just white space.

I'll attach an 800x600 screenshot.

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jshanks (jim-shanks) wrote on 2008-01-31:

800x600 desktop image Edit (30.6 KiB, image/png)

Here's a screenshot of the first window that pops up after pressing install.

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Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote on 2008-01-31:

Thanks for your report. This issue has been reported as bug #38442 and I've marked your report as a duplicate of that one.

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jshanks (jim-shanks) wrote on 2008-01-31: Re: [Bug 187662] Re: Live CD Installer can't install at 800x600

Hello Murat,

Thanks for the reply and putting this one in the rights spot. I guess I
did know this was reported before, but I just assumed it had been fixed
and worked it's way back in somehow.

I'm not trying to be condescending, really, but why hasn't this one been
fixed? I don't see this problem with Linux Mint or any of the Ubuntu
derivatives I've tried. This is the kind of bug that drives the average
user away from a distribution and even Linux in frustration. I know any
"experienced" Linux user can work around this one, but it's a showstopper
for the average noob.

Anyway, Thanks again,
Jim Shanks

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 38442 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/38442
>
> Thanks for your report. This issue has been reported as bug #38442 and
> I've marked your report as a duplicate of that one.
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => ubiquity
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 38442
> Ubiquity dialogues too large for 800x600 display
>
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> Live CD Installer can't install at 800x600
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187662
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