Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 issues - are there any?
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): After the CinePaint problems I found several other difficulties that would not resolve on my system and I have now abandoned this latest Ubuntu release. ... much more comfortable! Has anyone else had any problems? I'm thinking of upgrading several machines. NVIDIA issues are a nightmare. It took me two days of groveling to get my two monitors detected, idid read and used, and twinhead on a Viewsonic 1680x1050 with a phillips 1280x1024. (Gutsy was working, and I saved xorg.conf) Digital media automount and do nothing, vs gutsy where download happened. Camera downloaded photos on gutsy, did not download despite media-settings on Hardy. After 3 days of trying to get my wife's machine 'back so she could just use it' I threw in the towel and reinstalled Gutsy. Wimpering stopped ... MP3/ogg on desktop just played (mouse over). She liked that. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 issues - are there any?
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:26 PM, jam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): After the CinePaint problems I found several other difficulties that would not resolve on my system and I have now abandoned this latest Ubuntu release. ... much more comfortable! Has anyone else had any problems? I'm thinking of upgrading several machines. NVIDIA issues are a nightmare. It took me two days of groveling to get my two monitors detected, idid read and used, and twinhead on a Viewsonic 1680x1050 with a phillips 1280x1024. (Gutsy was working, and I saved xorg.conf) Assuming you're using the proprietary nVidia drivers, are you using nvidia-settings to detect the two monitors? I got mine working pretty much straight away using that package. Kind regards, James Foster -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 issues - are there any?
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:05 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): After the CinePaint problems I found several other difficulties that would not resolve on my system and I have now abandoned this latest Ubuntu release. ... much more comfortable! Has anyone else had any problems? I'm thinking of upgrading several machines. NVIDIA issues are a nightmare. It took me two days of groveling to get my two monitors detected, idid read and used, and twinhead on a Viewsonic 1680x1050 with a phillips 1280x1024. (Gutsy was working, and I saved xorg.conf) Assuming you're using the proprietary nVidia drivers, are you using nvidia-settings to detect the two monitors? I got mine working pretty much straight away using that package. Sheer luxuary! When we were young ... the bluddy resolution (640x480) was too low to let you get to the [apply] button on nvidia-settings, which does not support any geometry settings. So nvidia-settings and counting and tabs and return were tried until a fair slice of my life had burned off. Eventually the solution started with Option UseEdidFreqs false from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixVideoResolutionHowto James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 issues - are there any?
I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): After the CinePaint problems I found several other difficulties that would not resolve on my system and I have now abandoned this latest Ubuntu release. ... much more comfortable! Has anyone else had any problems? I'm thinking of upgrading several machines. thanks David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 issues - are there any?
david wrote: I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): After the CinePaint problems I found several other difficulties that would not resolve on my system and I have now abandoned this latest Ubuntu release. ... much more comfortable! Has anyone else had any problems? I'm thinking of upgrading several machines. For my basic purposes (web browsing, email, listening to music, irc'ing, compiling the occasional program etc) 8.04 has been good to me since I upgraded to it back in the alpha phase. The only real showstopper I ever saw was some wacky gnome-settings-daemon/xrandr/compiz-related bug which didn't affect me hugely since I'm using fluxbox as my window manager. I'm pretty sure that one was resolved before the final release was pushed out though. There was even some annoying things that I couldn't fix in previous versions that are sorted now without me having to do anything (for some reason the NVIDIA driver didn't work properly for me in gutsy). -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 issues - are there any?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi David, Since upgrading to 8.04 it removed my proprietary drivers for my nVidia 6200 and I had to reset my video as it did not even recognise my monitor (7.10 had no problems) also I can no longer run Doom2 (the only shootemup I play) and I am sure there are other issues. Maybe my problem stems from doing the upgrade online (2 GB of download) rather than just starting from scratch. Heracles david wrote: | I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): | | After the CinePaint problems I found several other difficulties that | would not resolve on my system and I have now abandoned this latest | Ubuntu release. ... much more comfortable! | | Has anyone else had any problems? I'm thinking of upgrading several machines. | | thanks | | David | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIFnlUybPcBAs9CE8RAjyeAJ4ieqlIH4HG55k9F3Fnmnt2qEcKKACfVgDB d/LiHfRWggq04kUdaW1NeHM= =Nmwe -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 issues - are there any?
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:31 AM, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this comment from another list (Cinepaint): After the CinePaint problems I found several other difficulties that would not resolve on my system and I have now abandoned this latest Ubuntu release. ... much more comfortable! Has anyone else had any problems? I'm thinking of upgrading several machines. I upgraded my laptop to 8.04 from 7.10 and don't know if the upgrade left the system at a broken state because of a local fault (I didn't stay to watch it when it failed, and my wife may have drained the battery), special setup (I use LVM) or simply because it's screwed. I ended up re-installing from an image of rc1 and this is what I now have on the laptop (I wanted the upgrade because of Firefox 3 and Evolution which can actually talk to an Exchange server). My desktop shows the upgrade button and starts it but just fails after a long time and gets back to 7.10, so that's where it is right now. A colleague who tried 7.10 because the Vista that he got with his brand new laptop just Didn't Work (TM) was happy with it but when he tried to upgrade nothing worked. I hope I won't loose another Windows-Linux convert because of this. So my conclusion for now - you might be better off waiting a little until the wrinkles are sorted out. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
