Doing the "happy linux user dance"

[Kilz]

Well I messed up my Dapper install. My Mp3 player needed a firmware reinstall and unfortunately it needed windows to do it. So rather than play around for a few days without my player (it wasnt going to happen) I just installed a small windows partition.
That small windows partition ended up eating the whole drive. :mad: Well what was done was done. So I thought , why not test Feisty. Its at herd 4.
While there are problems (my Firefox32 script wont find the plugins or internet, maybe its time to try nspluginwrapper). :KS :KS :KS : The ATI video driver in the repos is A1 first rate! :KS :KS :KS I even have 3D in my favorite of all time Game Diablo2! I havent seen it since the last time I played on Windows! The fps is even better than the proprietary one in Dapper!

[John.Michael.Kane]

Future Looks Bright You Gotta Wear Shades.


I'm glad your liking the Feisty One as of now.

[n8bounds]

have you ever considered a virtual machine for such unreachable things? win2k runs very well invirtuo

[Kilz]

have you ever considered a virtual machine for such unreachable things? win2k runs very well invirtuo

I did, but the mp3 player is a usb drive, when I would plug it in both os's would see it and mess up the firmware install program during detection. Just what I get for buying a ilo.

[Spr0k3t]

I'm getting anxious for feisty... just sounds much more gooder every times I am reading for it</broken-english>

HA! Just made my coworker cringe from that statement.

[Kilz]

I'm getting anxious for feisty... just sounds much more gooder every times I am reading for it</broken-english>

HA! Just made my coworker cringe from that statement.

Welllll running it now for a day or so, there is one littrle minor, kind of problem that 64bit users will not like. 32bit Firefox has problems in Feisty. It wont connect to the internet.

[Lonthong]

Why not trying firefox 64, blackdown java, flash +ndiswrapper?
I am on Edgy with that setup, flash is running well but Java keeps on crashing.
I before also used yr guide for firefox 32 which ran fine on both Dapper & Edgy

[Princey]

By the way Kilz, what type of ATI Card are you using? Just curious as my ATI X600 keeps beating the crap out of me everytime I try 3D with it (COMPIZ, AIGLX, BERYL).

[ubuntwerreulover0.023.231]

what is it ?

[CaveRat]

I did, but the mp3 player is a usb drive, when I would plug it in both os's would see it and mess up the firmware install program during detection. Just what I get for buying a ilo.

Kilz, I also have an ilo and have no problems at all plugging it into the computer. I'm using Fiesty Herd 4 at the moment with the ilo plugged in. Firmware is intact and all files and folders usable. You might want to take that one back for an exchange if you still can.

[Kilz]

By the way Kilz, what type of ATI Card are you using? Just curious as my ATI X600 keeps beating the crap out of me everytime I try 3D with it (COMPIZ, AIGLX, BERYL).
I have a radon express 200. The Ubuntu driver had aceleration and installed from synaptic! I was plesently supprised. Normaly its a headach to get it to work right.

Why not trying firefox 64, blackdown java, flash +ndiswrapper?
I am on Edgy with that setup, flash is running well but Java keeps on crashing.
I before also used yr guide for firefox 32 which ran fine on both Dapper & Edgy
I tried the 64bit Firefox with the same problem, java crashes. I love java games on my browser so I like it working. I also couldnt get the mplayer plugin to work.


Kilz, I also have an ilo and have no problems at all plugging it into the computer. I'm using Fiesty Herd 4 at the moment with the ilo plugged in. Firmware is intact and all files and folders usable. You might want to take that one back for an exchange if you still can.

The ilo works fine and linux does see it. But if you have to reinstall the firmware you cant do it from a virtual machine running windows. The reinstall application will error our when it loads in linux. That was the problem. The player was stuck in "loading" when I turned it on one time, but reinstalling the firmware fixed it.
All in all I love the little 1gb player. I have a 1 gb expansion card. So it ended up costing me $63 bucks for a 2gb mp3 player. My version of the player was made by http://www.lenoxx.com.
Let me also tell you that the manufacturer for some of the ilo players has gone out of buisness. If you dont have the firmware go and get it now, in case.

[Princey]

Thanks, I'll be looking forward to Feisty Fawn when it comes out two months from now.

[lavinog]

I have a radon express 200. The Ubuntu driver had aceleration and installed from synaptic! I was plesently supprised. Normaly its a headach to get it to work right.

How different would the express 200 be from the radeon express 200M do you think?

(Sometimes I fear kernel upgrades because I have to reinstall the ati driver)

Is the problem with hibernating fixed with the ATI driver and fiesty?
I am running Ubuntu on my laptop...everything works great in fact 1,000,000 times better and faster than windows. The only problem is that I had to disable the hibernate and standby features because the ATI driver hangs the computer and kills the battery.
I can get by this though since Ubuntu boots up in under 20 secs / windows: 40-50

[Kilz]

How different would the express 200 be from the radeon express 200M do you think?

(Sometimes I fear kernel upgrades because I have to reinstall the ati driver)

Is the problem with hibernating fixed with the ATI driver and fiesty?
I am running Ubuntu on my laptop...everything works great in fact 1,000,000 times better and faster than windows. The only problem is that I had to disable the hibernate and standby features because the ATI driver hangs the computer and kills the battery.
I can get by this though since Ubuntu boots up in under 20 secs / windows: 40-50

Im not real sure, and mine is a desktop machine, so Im not sure if hibernate would even work.

[lavinog]

Weird I asked about it and now the new ATI driver supposably fixes the crash. What timing.

[Lonthong]

Did the last driver solved yr problem of suspend/resume?
It didn't work for me. Modifying acpi_support makes suspend works as it should be but I failed to resume.

Moreover v. 8.34.08 and also v 8.33.6 gave me log-out problem but simple modification to gdm.conf-custom solved it. Whereas v 8.32.5 gave no problem at all

[lavinog]

Did the last driver solved yr problem of suspend/resume?
It didn't work for me. Modifying acpi_support makes suspend works as it should be but I failed to resume.

Moreover v. 8.34.08 and also v 8.33.6 gave me log-out problem but simple modification to gdm.conf-custom solved it. Whereas v 8.32.5 gave no problem at all

I just finished the install.
yes, the suspend and hibernate both worked and resumed for me
I have a compaq laptop with a ati radeon express 200m running edgy 32 & 64

I changed the POST_VIDEO=TRUE to FALSE
but i did this after it failed to log-out, then log-out still failed but resume worked.
I haven't tested the resume with POST_VIDEO=TRUE yet.

I am having the log-out problem also...it used to work up until one of the ati driver updates.
(I'm not sure when exactly though) How did you fix that
8.33.6 really messed things up on my 64 bit partition. I wound up reverting back to 8.32 for that. I haven't tried 8.34 on it yet.

[Lonthong]

I just finished the install.
yes, the suspend and hibernate both worked and resumed for me
I have a compaq laptop with a ati radeon express 200m running edgy 32 & 64

I changed the POST_VIDEO=TRUE to FALSE
but i did this after it failed to log-out, then log-out still failed but resume worked.
I haven't tested the resume with POST_VIDEO=TRUE yet.

I am having the log-out problem also...it used to work up until one of the ati driver updates.
(I'm not sure when exactly though) How did you fix that
8.33.6 really messed things up on my 64 bit partition. I wound up reverting back to 8.32 for that. I haven't tried 8.34 on it yet.

add"AlwaysRestartServer=true" under "Daemon" to yr gdm.conf-custom

[lavinog]

add"AlwaysRestartServer=true" under "Daemon" to yr gdm.conf-custom

That worked, Thanks

[incubus]

kilz,

I'm running Feisty. It's my testing partition, but I'm running it pretty much all the time now.

But anyway, I'm using YOUR Firefox 32 deb and everything is working fine. Flash, Java, you name it. Never had any problem with connectivity. It even upgraded automatically to the latest version. I installed flash and java manually though.

So it is working. Maybe it's some file in the wrong place in your system.
Do you want any details?

incubus

[Kilz]

kilz,

I'm running Feisty. It's my testing partition, but I'm running it pretty much all the time now.

But anyway, I'm using YOUR Firefox 32 deb and everything is working fine. Flash, Java, you name it. Never had any problem with connectivity. It even upgraded automatically to the latest version. I installed flash and java manually though.

So it is working. Maybe it's some file in the wrong place in your system.
Do you want any details?

incubus

Im not sure how it could upgrade automatically to the newest version. My deb's are not in the Ubuntu repositories.

[incubus]

Yeah, I was surprised too.

Apparently firefox 2.0 automatically checks for updates and somehow manages to self-installs them. Oh, I forgot to say it's firefox 2.0, I don't know if that's the one you have installed.

Ah, I just remembered one detail, though. What I did before installing your deb was to check for dependencies:

$ apt-get install --simulate firefox


Then I copied all new packages it was going to install and installed those EXCEPT (of course) for firefox. In other words, I manually installed all the dependencies. Those included a number of packages, but then again I'm in Kubuntu.

incubus