I was having problems with Ubuntu on the new box. I used the live-cd to shrink my windows NTFS partition the other day using the partition editor (gparted). I had made sure to defrag windows before I did this. After cutting the Hard Drive almost in half (19 and 18 gigs respectively) I was left with a NTFS and a blank partition. I created an ext3 partition (primary partition) and then a SWAP partition (of about 1200 megabytes). I then ran the installer and installed ubuntu rather flawlessly. I had to setup the network card, but everything ran, installed, and booted fine. I booted windows (XP professional) and chkdisk ran. After spending quite some time checking the disk, the system restarted again. Selecting windows through GRUB xp loaded and everything seems to be fine. Wahoo! A dual booter!
So now that I had my main box running both, I had to configure the ATi Radeon 9200 graphics card I had installed. I used easyubuntu to install the only driver I could find, but X kept crashing. The screen would just go black, and I would have to reboot. I even tried switching monitors to no avail. After some searching I found an exellent wiki that is just for setting up an ait card in ubuntu:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation_Guide
I had found a post on the ubuntu forums and had to do more searching. It did lead me to sign up for those, so here's the thread for my first post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75378
Hope that info helps.
