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Old Mar 10, 2007 | 8:08 pm
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Originally Posted by PTravel
I'm having fun with Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista-equipped laptop. I'd like to load a Linux distro to run within it. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't properly detect the video mode and gives garbage on the screen. Can anyone recommend a Linux distro that will work?
Ubuntu does work with 2k7, apparently. But the emulated video card behaves weirdly when using 24/32 bit colour.

The fix: install in text mode, and force the default colour depth to 16.

Details (from the 2k7 beta): http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=260749
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