Dell Mini Ubuntu vs Ubuntu-NBR
Something I like about Dell Ubuntu 8.04.1 on my Mini-9, that I didn't like about Ubuntu-UMPC/Mobile 8.10 (that I run/ran on my Samsung Q1 Ultra) is that Dell Ubuntu will let me clone my 9" 1024x600 Dell screen onto my 19" 1280x1024 monitor (with the Dell just showing the upper left portion of what's on the external monitor, as opposed to it stretching the smaller display onto the larger display (what my iMac G4 does)). What Dell Ubuntu does is pretty much what I want (and I'm going to refer to it as "asymmetric mirroring/cloning", because the screen is cloned/mirrored, but the two displays aren't the same size/resolution). But when I tried 9.04-NBR on my Mini-9 (via booting to a USB thumdrive), it didn't work. I could use separate screen spaces just fine ... I could even make the external monitor be the primary display (but I don't know if it'll remember that configuration from session to session, using the Dell as the primary when I'm away from my desk, using the external monitor as the primary when I start up with it attached). But I couldn't duplicate the display arrangement that Dell Ubuntu lets me have. If I tried to do cloning with 9.04-NBR on my Mini-9, it would try to step down to a common resolution (800x600) on both displays. That's completely unacceptable/brain-damaged. It should have at least offered to letter box the smaller display (1024x600) onto the larger display (1024x768 or 1280x1024). But the ideal type of screen cloning, for me, is what Dell Ubuntu offers. I suspect that it's because Canonical Ubuntu doesn't support that type of asymmetric mirroring/cloning. As I said, Ubuntu-UMPC 8.10 couldn't do it either. It behaved exactly like NBR, in this respect. I haven't tried the non-NBR version of 9.04, so I don't know what its behavior is. Is this a driver issue that I can download for Ubuntu-NBR 9.04? Is this something that's only offered by the Dell version(s) of Ubuntu, and if I want this I'm going to have to stay with Dell Ubuntu, and not Canonical Ubuntu? Or is this an issue with NBR/Mobile/UMPC versions of Ubuntu only, and regular Canonical Ubuntu does the right thing like Dell Ubuntu does? For the Ubuntu-Mobile mailing list: any plans to fix this? or is it already fixed and I just don't know where the option is located? For the UbuntuMini google group: anyone know of workarounds that make 9.04 (NBR or regular) do the right kind of external display on the Mini-9? In summary: 1) Forcing to step down to a resolution that looks awful on both displays, when screen cloning: BAD BAD BAD 2) Stretching the smaller screen onto the larger one, when screen cloning: bad 3) Letterboxing the smaller screen onto the larger one, when screen cloning: acceptable 4) Showing the larger screen at full resolution, and showing small portion of that on the small screen, when screen cloning: GOOD 5) Offering all four of those as explicit choices for the user: BEST 6) Dell Ubuntu 8.04.1 (for the Mini-9 at least) lets you do #4 7) Ubuntu-UMPC 8.10 and Ubuntu-NBR 9.04 only appear to do #1 8) Anyone know how I can make #4 work on all flavors of Ubuntu? 9) When will the Ubuntu-Mobile team fix things to allow #4 or #5? Thanks, John -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
Re: fit-pc2 (poulsbo), netbook-remix
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009, Julius wrote: > doing a cat casper.log (no idea if this is important) shows: > mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.squashfs failed: invalid > argument > Can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs) > on //filesystem.squashfs > Any idea what todo? Could you please attach the full casper.log and dmesg in a new bug? You might want to remove "quiet" and "splash" from the default kernel command line (press F6 on the boot menu to get prompted for the kernel cmdline), before "--". To get the log out, use a second USB key. Thanks -- Loïc Minier -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
fit-pc2 (poulsbo), netbook-remix
Still trying to get my fit-pc2 http://fit-pc2.com (poulsbo) chipset running with ubuntu, this time unr. It starts but after i choose my language the gui disappears and i get dropped into a busybox shell doing a cat casper.log (no idea if this is important) shows: mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.squashfs failed: invalid argument Can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs Any idea what todo? the image booted was: ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img from my usb stick, it was copied with dd as the howto says. greets -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
Re: poulsbo-driver-2d/3d on intrepid
Am Sonntag, den 14.06.2009, 12:27 +0200 schrieb Loïc Minier: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009, Julius Junghans wrote: > > after not getting jaunty to work i installed intrepid. no success either :( > > Heres the xorg.0.log.old: > > You need a particular kernel module too (Poulsbo's drm), which appears > to be missing on your system; perhaps more luck with the PPA I > mentionned? > > -- > Loïc Minier > pulsbo-driver-2d and 3d are meta packages from that repository, they are meta packages for a reason i believe. They should depend on crap thats needed to get the driver running. greets -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
Re: New in ubuntu mobile
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009, Kharrat Mohamed wrote: > So what I ask for is : is there an emulator of a mobile so I can try to > install ubuntu on it Well you can run qemu which can emulate chips found in phones such as ARM chips; however the mobile project isn't really centered around phones for now. We rather care about netbooks for now, MIDs to some extent. We're also interested in embedded and NAS or AP devices, but we're not really there yet. hth, -- Loïc Minier -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
Re: poulsbo-driver-2d/3d on intrepid
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009, Julius Junghans wrote: > after not getting jaunty to work i installed intrepid. no success either :( > Heres the xorg.0.log.old: You need a particular kernel module too (Poulsbo's drm), which appears to be missing on your system; perhaps more luck with the PPA I mentionned? -- Loïc Minier -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
Re: jaunty, module Xpsb missing
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009, Julius Junghans wrote: > Ive seen a package called "xpsb-glx" for 8.04, maybe thats it? but > theres no such package for 9.04? I think that's the one; there are some Poulsbo support packages for 8.10 and 9.04 in https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive/ppa but there wont be for 9.10. I don't know whether 9.04 is complete or functional yet. -- Loïc Minier -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile