Gutsy gibbon

MagnumIP · Post by **MagnumIP** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:06 pm

I found a fix for my audio issue on the Ubuntu forums. So now the only thing that bugs me is the WLAN light flashing. In Vista, it was a solid light. Now it flashes. It's not that bad. I know it will bug me though. So far everything that I do on a regular basis works. All my hardware works too so far except the Function Keys to raise or lower the brightness. It's ALOT faster now that I have Linux instead of Windows installed. I need to find a program like DVD Shrink for Linux so I can rip my DVD's and watch them on my laptop at work. Still tweaking it here and there. Not sure how to get the Mac like toolbar on the bottom but that is not that important right now.
I finally have a laptop that can do Compiz!!! It's real nice too. Didn't think the Intel 945GM could do it but it works just fine.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:15 pm

There are dozens of options for dvd ripping. If all you want are avis (or whatever) take a look at acidrip. It's not "the best" by any means, but it's simple to use, and is a frontend to mencoder which is much faster than transcode. Some people feel that transcode produces superior results - I can't honestly say I notice a difference. If you're interested in checking out a nice fronted for transcode, take a look at dvd:rip. There are dozens of other options, too - hit google for more ideas. For ripping DVDs or compressing dvds 9>5 style and ending up with a burnable iso, my preference is k9copy, but, again, there are several options - both gui based and command line goodness are available.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:29 pm

Update on dolphin - I've discovered how to turn off the right side "information" panel, and it's much nicer now. I still like konqueror better - I honestly use many of the sidebar views, but recognize that dolphin is much simpler and much easier to use an many ways. So, I'll rescind my earlier judgment and just say that I find konqueror more useful. I think if they want to have an information pane - and it might be useful - it should be below the left hand "favorites" area, and should actually provide useful info. About 99% of the time, now, no matter what I click on, it gives bogus size info and insists the filetype is the same as whatever happened to have focus when the browser was opened. This means folders listed as 0 byte and type "file." Basically this is crap.

naranco · Post by **naranco** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:51 pm

did a fresh install of gutsy the other day.

has anyone had problems with time synching in gutsy from the gnome menu?

i have it running in a virtual machine, and sometimes the clock gets behind quite a bit.

running sudo ntpdate complains about "no servers can be used".

if i specify a server it on the command line it does work.

/etc/default/ntpdate looks fine:

NTPSERVERS="ntp.ubuntu.com"

# Additional options to pass to ntpdate
NTPOPTIONS="-u"

... thx

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:34 pm

Well, ntp doesn't appear to be installed by default, which is weird. Also, at least in my case, /etc/default/ntpdate indicated that it should use /etc/ntp.conf for servers - which doesn't exist.

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# Set to "yes" to take the server list from /etc/ntp.conf, from package ntp,
# so you only have to keep it in one place.
NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes

# List of NTP servers to use  (Separate multiple servers with spaces.)
# Not used if NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF is yes.
NTPSERVERS="ntp.ubuntu.com"

Solution - install ntp.

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:46 pm

Gutsy now supposedly available for ppc and ps3.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/gutsy/release/

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:20 pm

davijordan wrote:Gutsy now supposedly available for ppc and ps3.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/gutsy/release/

Yeah, they have always supported PPC, and the PS3 (which is ppc64 arch) has been supported since Feisty AFAIK.

naranco · Post by **naranco** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:04 am

looks like i need to install the ntp client.

even if i take out "NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes ", ntpdate on the commandline cant find a server.

it is supposed to look in /etc/default/ntpdate, but it doesnt.

strange though, dont think i had to do that on dapper drake.

i wouldnt care too much normally, but running the os in a virtual machine can screw up the clock quite badly..

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:52 am

After an update, vbox stopped loading any of my old images with

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The VirtualBox support driver which is running is from a different version of VirtualBox. You can correct this by stopping all running instances of VirtualBox and reinstalling the software..

VBox status code: -11

Well, reinstalling vbox didn't fix it, neither did installing any of the drivers included with gutsy. The eventual fix was:

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cd /usr/share/virtualbox/src
make
make install

It bitched about invalid kernel configs, but continued compiling just fine. After that it installed w/o a hitch.

One area I'd give Gutsy big points is fonts - my fonts look fantastic. When I jump back over to arch, everything looks all smudgy. Fonts have gotten way too complex for me, so other than a few basic tweaks, I tend to leave shit alone now. The fonts on Gutsy are sharp, and look good.

yeti · Post by **yeti** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:58 am

Upgraded from Feisty on my Dell laptop and all worked very smoothly.

Admittedly, i don't run much other than the stock applications and spend most of my time in Terminal

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:41 am

I have not had any real trouble yet doing a gutsy upgrade yet. I am fixing to do a server that has a lot of tweaks. I hope it goes ok. I probably will image the hd first. From what I have seen, laptops seem to be the real challenge. One thing I do not like about gutsy is on wireless cards dio not seem to have better than wep encription. There is probably a package that gets around that. I have not searched the web yet for info on it.
linux amatuer...

Unimportant:
I am not a fan of xp or macroshaft, but you can move a drive from one machine to another if you boot in the safe mode and add the appropriate drivers. Use xp at your own risk.

lizerazu · Post by **lizerazu** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:06 pm

I'd like to say that I've had absolutely no issues with my fresh install of 7.10. I'm upgrading from 6.10. 7.04 would not recognize my dvd drive and therefor was useless.

This is all on my crappy gateway 200ARC (intel i850). I have to say this was my best experience with Ubuntu so far (it's annoyed me in the past).

Having said that, I'm not replacing Linux Mint (Celena) on my girlfriends computer until i'm sure that their next release is up to snuff.

spotslayer · Post by **spotslayer** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:42 am

I just finished doing the upgrade from Kubuntu fiesty to gutsy on my lenovo laptop. It went pretty smooth. I disabled all third party repositories and pretty much used all of the ubuntu repositories. I used the upgrade manager button that showed up on the top of adept. The upgrade took about an hour and twenty minutes. My laptop is fairly new and has 2g of ram. I did notice that >1.7g of ram and about 225m of swap was being used during the upgrade. The processors were being pegged at between 95% and 99%.

I was apprehensive when it came time for the reboot. When that happened everything came back as it left with two exceptions. One being when I am ready to shut down I only get a log out button and have to go to the KDM splash screen to reboot or shutdown. Two being my power management configuration is gone. So to resolve these two I guess I will have to crawl around the forums. If any of yooze guys have the solution to these two issues I would be glad to hear them.

David

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:29 pm

Wally Balljacker wrote:
davijordan wrote:Gutsy now supposedly available for ppc and ps3.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/gutsy/release/
Yeah, they have always supported PPC, and the PS3 (which is ppc64 arch) has been supported since Feisty AFAIK.

Last I heard they planned it's demise. and it is not on the beaten path to the web page it seems.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:38 pm

davijordan wrote:
Wally Balljacker wrote:
davijordan wrote:Gutsy now supposedly available for ppc and ps3.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/gutsy/release/
Yeah, they have always supported PPC, and the PS3 (which is ppc64 arch) has been supported since Feisty AFAIK.
Last I heard they planned it's demise. and it is not on the beaten path to the web page it seems.

Yeah, I thought they'd bagged PPC support a while ago. How's yellowdog these days?