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ubuntu 22.10 desktop 64 Bit

GNOME 43

Aiwotai Technology Shenzhen Co., Ltd. AK11

8.0 GiB

Intel® N150 × 4

very new back to ubuntu. I had isntalled linux on a computer over 20 years ago, i thought it was ubuntu, that i had burned to a cd then installed. I am trying to install an amateur radio specific image based on 22.10. get 800x400 resolution instead of 1920x1980 where would i put this topic?

I live in az, but travel to tx regularly.

I am wanting to learn more on linux in general.

I have installed 22.10 on one of the mini pcs below and on an hp laptop and it works fine and it. I have the he ham specific on the other mini pc and it works fine. When i try to install the new version of the ham specific version of ubuntu on the mini pcs, it only will go to 800x400 and i cannot change the resolution. from boot to the installation process nothing changes to the monitor resolution.

I had put a previous version of the ham image on this mini pc always had the issue. It functioned, but the 400x800 resolution made it very difficult to use. When i tried to change in settings or in command line, i could not get it to change.

When i installed a regular copy of 22.10, the resolution is 1920x1980 and looks good. when i try to install the most updated version of the ham image on either pc, goes back to the 400x800. cant even get an install finished. My ht laptop resolution is good and works fine.

Please help this newbie.

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you don’t say which ham application.
Where do I find this ham.iso? I could test it on a VM.

ubuntu 25.10 gives you 1920x1080
ham.iso cannot install, even if it does, 800x400

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It is the tech preppers emcomm tools. these were made using cubic using his scripts. One copy of the emcomm tools was completed on the mini pc mentioned. One was compiled on my hp laptop.

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You should install a supported version of Ubuntu
24.04 LTS (Long Term Support)
25.10 Interim (end of life July 2026)

Or be patient and install the next LTS
26.04 LTS (release date 23 April 2026)

Then, if you install Synaptic package manager, you will be able to search a section called:-
Amateur Radio (universe)

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I am trying to somewhat standardize on using things that are user based, ease of use. If family or other person needs to use it, they don’t have to learn extra stuff. I like to keep it simple.

I will try the amateur radio on synaptic for my personal experiments.

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What video chip are you using? If you run
sudo lshw -C display
What is the output?
You may also benefit from using Ubuntu 26.04 which is out in a few weeks and is currently in beta but an install will upgrade seamlessly into the release candidate

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n150. I am using 22,10 on one of the mini pcs with an n150 chip to type this.

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*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:400-3ff memory:6000000000-6000ffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:4010000000-4016ffffff memory:4020000000-40ffffffff
*-graphics
product: EFI VGA
physical id: 2
logical name: /dev/fb0
capabilities: fb
configuration: depth=32 resolution=1920,1080

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Seems the HWE kernel does the trick here

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Just a hunch, but since that special version is dedicated to being a ham radio, is it possible that it doesn’t install linux-firmware. Because that’s what you may need to get the full functionality of the iGPU. At least my thinking goes that you are supposed to install it and run the box headless; ham radios usually don’t have screens.

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Im running on mini pc and laptop. then via cable going into the radio. i installed the image on my laptop in dual boot. works fine on the hp laptop thus far.

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Unfortunately, Ubuntu 22.10 is much too old for us to offer support here.
That release of Ubuntu was supported for only 9 months.
We ceased answering questions about it in mid-2023.

You should be receiving support from whomever published the Ubuntu-based image that you are using.

We strongly discourage the use of unsupported releases of Ubuntu. Your old 22.10-based image won’t get any security upgrades and definitely should not be on any network; it may be vulnerable to published exploits.

Closing.

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