It took very long to get all Ubuntu installed, but for running inside a Virtual PC on my Mac I was not expecting it to be really fast and I don't care.
When it was done the graphics card seemed to be configured badly, but with the help of this site I knew what to do. Watch out when you are using Ubuntu 5.04 (or above I guess too) read the help until the end, or do it as I describe here.
By default the X11 window is visible, any normal user that sees this and the graphics is screwed up, won't know what to do, I guess. I didn't know either, until I remembered that there was some key shortcut to jump to a console, yes CTRL+ALT+Fx where x is 1-6, 7 is the graphical screen (X11). On a Mac this is not all that easy :-) But CTRL+ALT+FN+F1 works, just a bit slower, but it does!
- Then I needed to become root in ubuntu, simply type "sudo bash" and your password and you have a root shell.
- There you have to edit "/etc/X11/xorg.conf", I used vi.
- Change the value for "DefaultDepth" from 24 to 16.
Make sure to reboot (type "reboot" as root) and your X should run smoothly after the restart. Good luck ...
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