What have you overcome to get Ubuntu installed and working?

[aysiu]

Another one of my "just curious" polls...

I wanted to add more options, but 10 is the max. I'm also curious if anyone has most stuff working but just uses Ubuntu anyway.

For my computer, Ubuntu was good with everything out-of-the-box... except screen resolution. I popped a couple of lines into my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and it's all good now.

[kahping]

My sound card was recognised, but i had to enable the sound in alsamixer. Other than that, everything works out of the box!

[Nomearod]

One of my wireless card wan't detected, but after install ndiwrapper it worked without any problem.

Other problem, was the USB disks. Everytime I deleted a file it wans't deleted but moved to a folder called .trash in the USB disk. But I add the command to delete it in Nautilus and everything worked.

The definition of my screen wasn't very good, but after install ATI drivers everything worked fine.

Other problem, was with Unreal Tournament 2004. This game should run without problems in Linux, but it doens't work with me... I installed 4 or more times but it never worked... The only way was to install the demo and it worked, but the full game doesn't...

[Sgood1971]

The only problem I had (Still have) is any game I launch on my laptop (Intel I810 graphics) will only run @ 800x600. There is a large black box around the game window. But, since I do not game a lot, I use it this way and enjoy my Ubuntu. It's certainly not a show stopper.

[rjwood]

never have gotten my cd/dvd writer working. My kids computer with xp is used for that. Even my ubuntu iso's have to be bruned on that one. If I was permitted to install ubuntu on that computer, I would probably try harder. cd's/dvd's play ok though.

[Pablo_Escobar]

Out of the box, just the usual -> graphic drivers (3D ATI - repo way), fstab etc setup.
But that is what every Linux user should read about and get to know.

[GeneralZod]

I have virtually nothing to do hardware-wise on my desktop and laptop (so I voted EWSOOTB!), but my mum's T22 needed a lot of fiddling around to get perfect hibernate and resume. It's still flaky even now :/

[ember]

I had sound problems initially, most were related to flash-plugin and mplayer-plugin. I solved most of them (sound in flash still doesn't work properly, so I just reverted to the state were there was none).
I also had some problems with video playback, which I solved by installing totem-xine.

The really disturbing issue was that Ubuntu didn't like to installed on my harddisk first and I needed to resize the end of my root partition to a cylinder below 100GB to get it working. It took me like half a day to figure that out.

[encompass]

My RTL8180 didn't work right away, but with a wuick look in the forums I had it fixed. I did however, just get a webcam and it is not working. But optherwise, very nice. Every aspect of the my laptop has been working pretty good. I don't suspend, and I guess they doesn't work. But I don't care.

[lotusleaf]

initial limit of 60 Hz in Refresh Rate for certain monitors following installs. I wish Ubuntu had something like sax2 ( SuSE advanced X Window System-configuration).

Edit: Perhaps sax2 for Ubuntu could be considered? After all, yast4debian is in development.