RTFM

When I got home last night I tried to install a different version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS in hopes I would have better chance of keeping WoW from crashing. Well that was a disaster as I started installing the drivers from ATI and missed a step. Once I rebooted I stayed in low graphics mode and couldn't do anything to fix it. It doesn't help that I didn't realize at the time the difference between the open-source and proprietary drivers. Hey I'm learning. I upgraded to 8.10 hoping that it would pull down the correct drivers that I needed. That didn't work. I went to a white screen every time.

So Saturday morning, I put 9.04 the Jaunty Jackalope back on. For now I installed the proprietary drivers from Ubuntu. I haven't installed WoW back on it yet, I'm actually going to wait I think. I'm planning on getting an external hard drive for us to back up all our pics, music, and all the other stuffs. Once I do that I plan on wiping everything out again. I have a 500 Gb and 98 Gb hard drives in my PC. I'm thinking of going with something like this:

• 98Gb with Windows XP loaded with WoW only
• 500Gb partitioned: 400Gb for Ubuntu 9.04 and 100Gb for testing other versions or distros.

The prices on a 500Gb hard drives have dropped tremendously since I bought mine. I maybe picking up another one of those as well.

I still haven't decided whether I'll load the latest drivers from ATI yet. I'm a little hesitant with my last go around. I really want to because I want to make it work like I've read that others have done.