Fenris_rising
May 1st, 2008, 08:50 PM
hi all.
well its been 5 days since i took my first decisive steps into UBUNTU and other than self created destruction (dont ask) my HH install is great. i have managed to get my DVD RW to act as a DVD player. Also it turned out ready to burn as well, burned a copy of gparted, ubuntu 7.4 and pmagic. lovely lovely lovely. installed further codecs to play my stored music, and had ago at setting my graphic card up with open source ATI drivers. All this has gone fairly flawlessly. I still have an outstanding issue with the menu list of compiz-git, their are no icons only grey boxes but since fiddling with the graphic drivers i can now select each item to turn on/off.
now for my laptop, its been dual booting for about 2 days XP/xubuntu. i decided to install GG 7.10 as my only OS on the lappy. there where some minor problems, the install faltered and took some time to coax onto my machine. once on however things were not good. very sluggish as apposed to Xubuntu. had a think, decided that maybe GG is pushing the limits of my lappy so i try installing 7.04 Xubuntu. no go at all something has gone awry. so i choose my new weapon pmagic. i had a bit of a problem with this, im not sure but i think the icons, are there any? were off the screen, scratch that.........weapon of choice 2 gparted. what a lovely little app.very intuitive and easy to use. basically im a bit out of practice with partitioning so i just deleted all the partitions and formatted back to ntfs. meanwhile i had DL ubuntu 7.04 FF burned it and moved it into the laptop drive. Its in, used ndiswrapper to get my usb wireless going, installed realplayer, 200 updates are coming in now. as a side note i have noticed on both machines especially the laptop an increase in speed and performance. right back to my ubuntuing.
morale of the storey.........dont give up, Ubuntu is worth it!
Fenris
well its been 5 days since i took my first decisive steps into UBUNTU and other than self created destruction (dont ask) my HH install is great. i have managed to get my DVD RW to act as a DVD player. Also it turned out ready to burn as well, burned a copy of gparted, ubuntu 7.4 and pmagic. lovely lovely lovely. installed further codecs to play my stored music, and had ago at setting my graphic card up with open source ATI drivers. All this has gone fairly flawlessly. I still have an outstanding issue with the menu list of compiz-git, their are no icons only grey boxes but since fiddling with the graphic drivers i can now select each item to turn on/off.
now for my laptop, its been dual booting for about 2 days XP/xubuntu. i decided to install GG 7.10 as my only OS on the lappy. there where some minor problems, the install faltered and took some time to coax onto my machine. once on however things were not good. very sluggish as apposed to Xubuntu. had a think, decided that maybe GG is pushing the limits of my lappy so i try installing 7.04 Xubuntu. no go at all something has gone awry. so i choose my new weapon pmagic. i had a bit of a problem with this, im not sure but i think the icons, are there any? were off the screen, scratch that.........weapon of choice 2 gparted. what a lovely little app.very intuitive and easy to use. basically im a bit out of practice with partitioning so i just deleted all the partitions and formatted back to ntfs. meanwhile i had DL ubuntu 7.04 FF burned it and moved it into the laptop drive. Its in, used ndiswrapper to get my usb wireless going, installed realplayer, 200 updates are coming in now. as a side note i have noticed on both machines especially the laptop an increase in speed and performance. right back to my ubuntuing.
morale of the storey.........dont give up, Ubuntu is worth it!
Fenris