qiet72
December 4th, 2005, 05:31 PM
Just saying hello as a new member.
Installed ubuntu on two different laptops - worked pretty well out of the box.
The only issues to note:
If you have an ATI Mobility Radeon M6 LY card which is installed in laptops like the Dell c610 Latitude, then remember to switch the driver in xorg.conf from "ati" to "radeon" otherwise 3D accelleration will not work. The 3D accelleration also requires quite a bit of video memory so you may have to switch your color depth from 24 bit to 16 bit in xorg.conf. The solution took me 3 days to figure that out. The solution is so simple that it seemed ridiculous.
Don't try the fglrx driver - very unstable and it will not work with the ATI Mobility Radeon M6 LY card!!!
Other issues: I noticed a lot of people having problems with programs that use the OpenAL api for sound like Chromium. This is because OpenAL uses /dev/dsp directly which conflicts with the Enlightenment Sound Daemon (esd) which also uses /dev/dsp. The most elegant solution I have found is to create a file called ~/.openalrc and paste the following line into the file:
(define devices '(alsa esd native))
Save the file and it should work immediately without reboot or logout.
The line tells OpenAL to try and use alsa, then esd, then /dev/dsp for sound output. Reference to this information is here:
http://ggo.sourceforge.net/manual/ar01s09.html
On to the rest of my hardware setup! Still trying to get Infrared to work. I will post if I find a solution.
2005-12-4 Update: Pingus doesn't seem to give sound. The following makes the sound work but is not elegant:
As root type: echo "pingus 0 0 direct" >/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
If anybody else knows a more elegant way than this, post.
Quinn
Installed ubuntu on two different laptops - worked pretty well out of the box.
The only issues to note:
If you have an ATI Mobility Radeon M6 LY card which is installed in laptops like the Dell c610 Latitude, then remember to switch the driver in xorg.conf from "ati" to "radeon" otherwise 3D accelleration will not work. The 3D accelleration also requires quite a bit of video memory so you may have to switch your color depth from 24 bit to 16 bit in xorg.conf. The solution took me 3 days to figure that out. The solution is so simple that it seemed ridiculous.
Don't try the fglrx driver - very unstable and it will not work with the ATI Mobility Radeon M6 LY card!!!
Other issues: I noticed a lot of people having problems with programs that use the OpenAL api for sound like Chromium. This is because OpenAL uses /dev/dsp directly which conflicts with the Enlightenment Sound Daemon (esd) which also uses /dev/dsp. The most elegant solution I have found is to create a file called ~/.openalrc and paste the following line into the file:
(define devices '(alsa esd native))
Save the file and it should work immediately without reboot or logout.
The line tells OpenAL to try and use alsa, then esd, then /dev/dsp for sound output. Reference to this information is here:
http://ggo.sourceforge.net/manual/ar01s09.html
On to the rest of my hardware setup! Still trying to get Infrared to work. I will post if I find a solution.
2005-12-4 Update: Pingus doesn't seem to give sound. The following makes the sound work but is not elegant:
As root type: echo "pingus 0 0 direct" >/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
If anybody else knows a more elegant way than this, post.
Quinn