working with unity8

[ventrical]

Working nominally so far on HD 5450. Posting this message from Next Browser.Regards..

ventrical@ventrical-P5QL-PRO:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)
ventrical@ventrical-P5QL-PRO:~$

[rrnbtter]

Greetings,
I just zsynced my Unity Next ISO and it's hard to believe that there is a 17% difference in one day.
Read /home/rrnbtter/utopic-desktop-i386-u8.iso. Target 83.7% complete.

verifying download...checksum matches OK
used 878948352 local, fetched 172410641

[rrnbtter]

Greetings,
Well I installed my new U8 iso onto my USB and ran it in 'try' mode. Must say it is much nicer than yesterday. Makes me want to go out and buy a touch screen laptop. The app store works and everything. I am still going to the ctrl alt f2 terminal to shutdown. sudo shutdown -H now. It seems like the mouse actions are working better today than yesterday. I'm still finding my way around but it is working fine.
PS With Unity Next defaulting to systemd it now makes sense why it is an option in Utopic. It is part of the 67% that is common between the two releases. IMHO

[ventrical]

And actually some of the apps are actually working .. like Flappy Bird for instance. I tried to guide the bird through the first set of poles and the bird banged into the pillars and it crashed

[Mateusz Stachowski]

PS With Unity Next defaulting to systemd it now makes sense why it is an option in Utopic. It is part of the 67% that is common between the two releases. IMHO

Unity Next does not default to systemd as init it still uses Upstart. If it would default to systemd as init you would have this line in grub entry:

http://www.piware.de/2014/04/booting...ges-available/

To actually boot with systemd, press Shift during boot to get the grub menu, edit the Ubuntu stanza, and append this to the linux line: init=/lib/systemd/systemd.

Also the whole Unity 8 is currently only a phone and tablet affair so far and systemd isn't used in Ubuntu phones.

http://www.piware.de/2014/04/booting...now-in-utopic/

Also this hasn’t yet been tested on the phone at all. I’m sure that it’ll require quite some work (e. g. lxc-android-config has a lot of upstart jobs). To clarify, there is nofixed date/plan/deadline when this will be done, in particular it might well last more than one release cycle. So we’ll “release” (i. e. switch to it as a default) when it’s ready

[rrnbtter]

Greetings,
The Terminal app is not installing. It goes through the process then the download fails. Anyone have a terminal in Unity8 desktop?

[ventrical]

Greetings,
The Terminal app is not installing. It goes through the process then the download fails. Anyone have a terminal in Unity8 desktop?

atm it will not install. It shows all the pics and etc.. but I can't get that one running either.

[rrnbtter]

Greetings,
@ventrical, Thanks I was just fishing for a workaround. This desktop seems to be a "lock out" much like android. I can do a ctrl alt f2 and get to utopic root but not to Unity8 root. so there is clearly two things at work here, Unity8 and Utopic. Im interested to see where "terminal" puts me (probably Utopic).

[grahammechanical]

This kind of thing is what makes tracking convergence interesting. I would expect a phone/tablet OS to be very restrictive as to what the user can change. I also heard some talk about there being a developer mode so developers could install and test their apps. And then we have the desktop where users expect much more freedom.

Regards.

[rrnbtter]

Greetings,
@grahammechanical, Exactly! and couple of days ago I ran an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade from the root (ctl alt f2) and it borked my Unity8 but Unity8 has an Update app which should theoretically only update Unity 8 and not the underlying Utopic (at this time at least).