Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper

[Seeruk]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Anyone know how to use linux-amd64-k8 instead of linux-amd64-generic for x86-64 even for a .1% boost?

As Nothinman said, don't bother!! I'm guessing the time taken to do it would be more than all the cumulative 0.1% speed improvements you may gain from it in the future

I tried to run it on Virtual PC, but it said something about the checksum for the device ID not being valid when it tried to boot the kernel. That's been my experience with it so far.

Try VMWare, works great

Anyone have problems upgrading?

Mne started, then gave me a failure code, aomthing about my network. Now I can't get it back to update again..

If there is one thing I have learnt from experience... its never trust an upgrade installation

if I boot into Dapper from Grub I have no display.
I tried doing a "reconfigure", but all it did was re-edit my Grub.menu.lst & removed XP again

Post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf here, it's probably something very simple

I'm running Ubuntu and it's absolutely sweet, going off without a hitch and pwning my Windows 98 that I've been running for years

I would hope that an OS released almost a decade later would be better....

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: screw3d
I have tried all the suggestions on ubuntuforums all night and I still can't get the fvcking thumb buttons to work on my MX510 :frown:

There is a guide for Breezy for the Mx510...check that and be careful when you do stuff because they ahve a tendency to move things around. Check the howto guides

I know because I was thinking of doing it, but I never use the side buttons so it wwasn't an issue

That guide was my main reference.. after that didn't work I trawled through the forums for other suggestions and it still isn't working.

One thing that irks me - everytime I misconfigure the mouse in xorg.conf, X will not load and just hangs there with a blinking cursor. I would prefer it to at least start in failsafe or display the error message more consistently. It does put the error message in /var/log/ though.

I'll work on getting both my sound cards to work. Everything else works nicely and seems very polished

 

[Slicedbread]

It's nice and spiffy, it seems like they are trying to make it a windows alternative (it even has baloon tips). Unfortunately I dont have a reason to use besides curiosity and getting the broadcom wireless chipset to work is a pain (still working on it). It's getting better for the mainstream but if a person has to go to computer shop to get spyware removed I dont have much hope for them being able to install unsupported hardware.

 

[xtknight]

Ubuntu 6 final was released.

Use sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade from beta. It just acted like a normal upgrade (a la "system updates") to me though.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

My bro tried to install the desktop x86 dvd to his hard drive and it failed when he got to formatting his mbr with grub. Gave him some error and told him to post it at the bug tracker for Ubuntu. He likes Ubuntu so he's just going to do the ncurses install. Other than that it seemed to run fine on his comp (besides the age old problem where he has to run a vesa driver because the nv driver doesn't support his new 7800GT and displays garbled graphics).

I'm doing great with Suse on my desktop, but I'll definantly have to carry around my Ubuntu discs when they get in. Great to have and I'll definantly give copies to all my friends. Who knows, maybe the rt2570 driver won't freeze my comp like it did in Dapper Beta.

Oh yeah, I've yet to try out my brother's broadcom chipset. He has a U.S. Robotics USR5421. Hopefully that'll go well.

 

[xtknight]

Well I've gone as far as compiling my own kernel with reiser4 support. I'm using reiser4 on two (non-critical) partitions and so far it seems fast and has been working great. Ubuntu 6.06 has also been working great. I'm still on my first install with no problems.

 

[P0ldy]

Originally posted by: screw3d

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: screw3d
I have tried all the suggestions on ubuntuforums all night and I still can't get the fvcking thumb buttons to work on my MX510 :frown:

There is a guide for Breezy for the Mx510...check that and be careful when you do stuff because they ahve a tendency to move things around. Check the howto guides

I know because I was thinking of doing it, but I never use the side buttons so it wwasn't an issue

That guide was my main reference.. after that didn't work I trawled through the forums for other suggestions and it still isn't working.

One thing that irks me - everytime I misconfigure the mouse in xorg.conf, X will not load and just hangs there with a blinking cursor. I would prefer it to at least start in failsafe or display the error message more consistently. It does put the error message in /var/log/ though.

I'll work on getting both my sound cards to work. Everything else works nicely and seems very polished

This isn't your fault or that of the Ubuntu forums. I was in the same boat as you, but then some figured out that the evdev driver that the buttons' functionality relies on is broken. See the Ubuntu thread and the bug report.

 

[IamDavid]

I finally installed Ubuntu on my Laptop, Sony Vaio FRV-37 which I have hated since getting it.. Always has ran way to hot and bogged down constantly.. I tried everything with the POS but was always disapointed. Now with Ubuntu it kicks a** like it should.. Only bad thing is the battery doesn't last long.. 1.5hrs or so..

How and why would Ubuntu handle my Sony so much better then XP?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Well I've gone as far as compiling my own kernel with reiser4 support. I'm using reiser4 on two (non-critical) partitions and so far it seems fast and has been working great. Ubuntu 6.06 has also been working great. I'm still on my first install with no problems.

Is it noticeably faster than xfs or the v3 of reiser?

 

[Megatomic]

I tried it on my main workstation last night and the only issue I had was that I couldn't get updated NV drivers to install properly so that my 7900GT would work right. No OpenGL (failed to initialize).

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX

Originally posted by: xtknight
Well I've gone as far as compiling my own kernel with reiser4 support. I'm using reiser4 on two (non-critical) partitions and so far it seems fast and has been working great. Ubuntu 6.06 has also been working great. I'm still on my first install with no problems.

Is it noticeably faster than xfs or the v3 of reiser?

I'm not sure about that. What tests do you suggest I do to find out? I have a "reiserfs notail" partition, two reiser4 ones, and three ntfs ones but no xfs ones.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I tried it on my main workstation last night and the only issue I had was that I couldn't get updated NV drivers to install properly so that my 7900GT would work right. No OpenGL (failed to initialize).

Have you tried this HOWTO? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

Maybe the drivers don't support the 7900GT yet?

 

[Megatomic]

Would that HowTo work for Kubuntu also? That's the one I tried, from the 6.06 AMD64 install DVD.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
Would that HowTo work for Kubuntu also? That's the one I tried, from the 6.06 AMD64 install DVD.

Yep, it almost certainly would. Kubuntu is simply Ubuntu with KDE. Xorg was not changed.

 

[Megatomic]

That's what I thought.

I'm thinking that I want to get my wife a new laptop and reclaim my old one for linux purposes. It set up properly even with Ubuntu 5.04 even with it's old Radeon Mobility video chipset. And I'd heard that ATI isn't as well supported in Linux as NVidia...

 

[SleepWalkerX]

I'm filled with glee!!

I just got an email from a dev at ubuntu's launchpad who caught my bug I posted back in Dapper Beta. This is for the most annoying bug in Ubuntu. Someone actually gave my bug a major priority out of the billion other bugs. Makes me happy.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-nv/+bug/41979">https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu....../xserver-xorg-driver-nv/+bug/41979</a>

I'll shout with joy if this problem gets fixed by Edgey. Its been here for a while. I may even switch.. Depending of course. I think I'm going to start submitting some more bugs and maybe give some public awareness about them on the forums.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I'm filled with glee!!

I just got an email from a dev at ubuntu's launchpad who caught my bug I posted back in Dapper Beta. This is for the most annoying bug in Ubuntu. Someone actually gave my bug a major priority out of the billion other bugs. Makes me happy.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-nv/+bug/41979"><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-nv/+bug/41979">https://launchpad.net/distros/ubu.........rver-xorg-driver-nv/+bug/41979</a></a>

I'll shout with joy if this problem gets fixed by Edgey. Its been here for a while. I may even switch.. Depending of course. I think I'm going to start submitting some more bugs and maybe give some public awareness about them on the forums.

That's good to hear because I was having the exact same problem. I think [the cause of] mine is the same as yours but my bug post is here: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/45797">https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/45797</a>

 

[ottothecow]

I went through the update process on my laptop (T23).

It is now completely hosed. There were a few errors, rebooted and now it cant start X and I have no network.

Oops...any ideas?

 

[Alienwho]

Ok guys I don't know what I did, but for some reason open windows are now displaying on both the bottom toolbar and the top toolbar on my Dapper box, and I find that highly annoying. I can't figure out how to stop it from displaying on the top one. Anybody have an answer?

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Alienwho
Ok guys I don't know what I did, but for some reason open windows are now displaying on both the bottom toolbar and the top toolbar on my Dapper box, and I find that highly annoying. I can't figure out how to stop it from displaying on the top one. Anybody have an answer?

Right click on an empty space on the taskbar at top and click Remove From Panel.

 

[Looney]

Man, maybe it's time to dump Kubuntu and go back to Ubuntu. Kubuntu has progressively gotten more bloated and unstable for me.

 

[Nothinman]

If there is one thing I have learnt from experience... its never trust an upgrade installation

Maybe with Windows, but on Linux it's much easier to verify the upgrade is correct and working. And with Debian (and Debian based distros, as long as they don't b0rk it up somehow) upgrading from one release to the next is painless. I've done a few woody->sarge and sarge->etch->sid upgrades and other than a few minor issues they all work fine.

 

[Alienwho]

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: Alienwho
Ok guys I don't know what I did, but for some reason open windows are now displaying on both the bottom toolbar and the top toolbar on my Dapper box, and I find that highly annoying. I can't figure out how to stop it from displaying on the top one. Anybody have an answer?

Right click on an empty space on the taskbar at top and click Remove From Panel.

Oh the only spot I could click on and get that option was the separator bar, no wonder I couldn't find it the first time.

 

[cw42]

I'm having a hard time trying to partition a drive for installing ubuntu. I'm currently running WinXP, and I want to install Ubuntu onto another partition on another HD. I've tried searching for an answer, but none have come up for my specfic config.

HD1 (C, D)
HD2 (E, F, unallocated space)

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Hate to be somewhat off topic, but I got excited that someone heard my bug so I posted the same bug for Suse 10.1. And apparently someone responded to it in less than two days. This bug might even be fixed by 10.2 Alpha 1. That's some awesome support. I think I'll take back my switching to Ubuntu comment, heh.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=181594 (might need an account to view)