Thought I'd start a new thread in the right section, as it's not directly to do with Web access. I've tried installing both Ubuntu and Xubuntu on some All in one PCs I have. They are Celeron 2.4ghz, 256 Mb RAM, Integrated intel 865g graphics. If I try to install normally then it just displays completely corrupted and unintelligible garbage on the screen. So I install in safe graphics mode, which works fine, except that the highest graphics mode is 800x600 at 61hz. Consequently the screen is blurry and flickery.
Through lspci I've seen that it is correctly identifying the card, but in xorg.com the graphics driver is just vesa, not the intel driver. There seem to be two intel graphics drivers - 810, and intel. I think when I'm installing it tries the 810 driver, and it's completely corrupted with this driver. Although this is only a guess. I was just wondering if anyone had any idea how to tell it to use a certain driver - I've tried most of the answers I can see on the web, but they seem to be mainly concerned with changing resolution when you have a driver installed, not how to install the driver. Could it be possible I'm still in some form of safe mode? The sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg command doesn't seem to work for me.
Obviously my lack of knowledge of linux is a problem, especially as I tend to approach things from a windows perspective, like looking for a device manager etc. and it doesn't really work like that. Thanks for any advice
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