Gutsy gibbon

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:52 pm

Thanx to linc's advice I went ahead and started an upgrade tot he developmental version of gutsy. I figure the mirrors would be swamped soon enough and this would be better time to get it.

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Post by **Patrick** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:40 am

I upgraded the laptop during the show and it finished up right after we finished. The new kernel would not boot. I was able to get into my old kernel and it seems to be working o.k.. I'll try to re-install the new kernel tonight. On a side note I saw Corty Doctorow's posting:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/17/ne ... l#comments

Man what hate from the Apple sycophants pretending to be Windows people in the comments section.

Post by **Patrick** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:59 am

Reading some of the threads on the Ubuntu forums it sounds like others are having issues with the new kernel as well. What's amazing is the amount of activity on those boards. Something like 10,000 people on at once. It's pretty amazing.

greggh · Post by **greggh** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:02 pm

I did a 7.10 fresh install today. It has the same major problem that Feisty had. I can not use the nvidia driver required for 3d acceleration and compiz. When I enable it in Restricted drivers and reboot my screen is totally blurry and when I check the screen resolution setting it tells me that the refresh rate is only 50 Hz and there are no other refresh rates in the dropdown box. Using the default open driver I get a default of 60 Hz and can also choose 75 HZ. So right now I'm running Gutsy but with the deault open video driver and no 3d or compiz. My video card is a nvidia FX 5200. If any one knows how to fix this, please let me know.

allix · Post by **allix** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:02 pm

I was looking at the release notes and noticed Kopete crashes when connecting to MSN. Has ubuntu started to smoke crack? What kinda release is that? the msn protocol is widely used.

Post by **Patrick** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:08 pm

If anyone wants to chat on the IRC about their experiences please come and share.

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:44 pm

Patrick wrote:If anyone wants to chat on the IRC about their experiences please come and share.

I might check it out tonight. my machine rebooted fine (beginners luck), but I did have to change a few configuration files. I probably have more to change, Most of which I had backed up. I may not have all the repos y'all do in sources.list. uname gives 2.6.22-14-server. I do not really run any fancy graphics card or desktop and I hardly ever access it directly. Just web and ssh. This is in an old dell gx1 with 384meg ram. I did mull over the y/n questions a bit though. Seems like it took forever and I did have to do some package cleanup. .

Post by **Patrick** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:47 pm

The Ubuntu forums are at an all time high in users. If I had to guess people are having some issues. Not good at all. We'll see how it pans out in the next couple of days. I'm not dead in the water with my only machine so its no big deal. I have a usable machine with the old kernel.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:22 pm

greggh wrote:I did a 7.10 fresh install today. It has the same major problem that Feisty had. I can not use the nvidia driver required for 3d acceleration and compiz. When I enable it in Restricted drivers and reboot my screen is totally blurry and when I check the screen resolution setting it tells me that the refresh rate is only 50 Hz and there are no other refresh rates in the dropdown box. Using the default open driver I get a default of 60 Hz and can also choose 75 HZ. So right now I'm running Gutsy but with the deault open video driver and no 3d or compiz. My video card is a nvidia FX 5200. If any one knows how to fix this, please let me know.

I usually have to munge the hell out of the stock ubuntu xorg.conf. I'm not usually old fashioned, but modlines seem to cause more problems than they fix, IME.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:25 pm

Patrick wrote:The Ubuntu forums are at an all time high in users. If I had to guess people are having some issues. Not good at all. We'll see how it pans out in the next couple of days. I'm not dead in the water with my only machine so its no big deal. I have a usable machine with the old kernel.

I'd say that's actually pretty standard, and Ubuntu is in no way alone here. X+1 release tends to have many killer bugs for many people for a few weeks until they get ironed out.

BobCFC · Post by **BobCFC** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:56 am

greggh wrote:I did a 7.10 fresh install today. It has the same major problem that Feisty had. I can not use the nvidia driver required for 3d acceleration and compiz. When I enable it in Restricted drivers and reboot my screen is totally blurry and when I check the screen resolution setting it tells me that the refresh rate is only 50 Hz and there are no other refresh rates in the dropdown box. Using the default open driver I get a default of 60 Hz and can also choose 75 HZ. So right now I'm running Gutsy but with the deault open video driver and no 3d or compiz. My video card is a nvidia FX 5200. If any one knows how to fix this, please let me know.

If you are running the proprietary driver there is a nice control panel to set up your screen resolution. I use it to config dual monitors and stuff. You can tweak the refresh rates and gamma independently.

Code: Select all

gksu nvidia-settings

You have to run it as root so that you can click the button to save the changes to the xorg.conf file.

BTW I am runnning the latest driver from the nvidia website, but I think that it is still there if you just enable restricted drivers in Ubuntu

Post by **dann** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:02 am

I started an upgrade on my system at work before I left yesterday. Of course, it got to a point that required my input, but by then all the packages had been downloaded and the installs were about a third of the way through. Before I went to bed I started upgrading my laptop.

I only hope my laptop goes as smooth as my work workstation. Holy moly; I rebooted and was in ubuntu glory. I did have a problem with the compiz fusion I was using from a third party repository so I just removed compiz and beryl then reinstalled it from the package manager and all was well.

Damn happy with what I am seeing. I cannot wait to get home and complete that system. Then I have to do the wife's machine. A whole lot of ubuntu goodness this week!

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:10 am

I usually wait a couple weeks to brea.. , er, upgrade my wife's machine.

jamathis · Post by **jamathis** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:22 pm

I'll be skipping this Ubuntu release. I usually skip a release. I'll upgrade when Hardy Heron, which will be the next LTS release, comes out next year.

Vogateer · Post by **Vogateer** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:30 pm

Upgraded my desktop, and I'm having several problems. The upgrade didn't even complete, really. I had to get rid of evms because it kept complaining about device-mapper lookup failing, which was preventing the partition with my home directory from mounting. The gnome-settings-daemon failed, and couldn't connect to dbus. I also couldn't start f-spot because of that. I reinstalled dbus and it seems to be working now. The application menu is all screwy as well. Generally just not a good experience.

I can't say I trust the computer that much at the moment. I'm not sure if my laptop will upgrade smoother, but I certainly hope it will. I know on my laptop I'm not deviating from the standard repositories, and not fiddling with things as much, so I'm hoping that keeps things clean. I'm definitely waiting on my laptop upgrade for several weeks. I don't know, makes me wonder if I should go back to gentoo. I'd get minor breakage every once in a while, but never big problems with an upgrade. Ubuntu seems to work great on an initial install, I'm just not confident with the upgrading.