ubuntu 9.04

[ithinkyou5.0]

just downloaded and installed it and i have to say it looks beautifull. although the differences arnt huge like going from xp to vista but i definitely notice some look and feel changes. not sure what i prefure now, windows 7 or ubuntu 9.04. apart from some wireless issues which where quickly solved with ndiswrapper ive had no problems with it

thoughts on new ubuntu release?

 

[MHCG]

It was such a pain getting my Mythbuntu box setup, I don't think it's worth the upgrade. I had to use ndiswrapper for my wireless card too.

 

[angry_geek]

I had to use ndiswrapper for my wireless card too.

That's really odd. I haven't had to use ndis on anything since 8.04. I've used ubuntu with linksys, belkin, and even my dell wireless in my lappy, and the ones in my netbooks. The dell and most linksys use broadcom, the rest are atheros. No problems at all; even with wpa 2.

 

[purple_minion]

It was such a pain getting my Mythbuntu box setup, I don't think it's worth the upgrade. I had to use ndiswrapper for my wireless card too.

I just did my mythbox last night, relatively easy too. Only thing I stumbled at was I got no video whatsoever. Well it was a 1d10t error, I had the coax cable unplugged when it was storming here a few days ago.

I had a PS blowup (before the storm by a few weeks) and it corrupted some files and so I was going to reload anyway, might as well wait a week for the new version. Just make sure to plug in a USB drive or use Samba to dump your database every night and save your lirc config if you change it at all. I also make a quick image of it once you get it perfected, alas I couldn't use mine for a new install. I need to check out the alternative disk and see if it will create a separate partition automatically for recordings. If you want real pain follow jarod's mythtv guide, and set aside a good solid weekend.

 

[MHCG]

That's really odd. I haven't had to use ndis on anything since 8.04. I've used ubuntu with linksys, belkin, and even my dell wireless in my lappy, and the ones in my netbooks. The dell and most linksys use broadcom, the rest are atheros. No problems at all; even with wpa 2.

Mine is an RT-2500 chipset in a Linksys WMP54GS PCI card. I tried to use the built in driver and it recognized the card, but because of a screwup in the driver Ubuntu was shipped with, it was manually limiting the speed to 1MB. It would work at 54MB, but it required me to manually reset the speed every time I rebooted.

 

[angry_geek]

On my media box, I use a Belkin N card with the N router. No issues at all, and streams beautifully. Still no joy with High-Def, though. Just needs too much bandwidth.

 

[ithinkyou5.0]

mine only had an issue because i use a wireless usb dongle on my main PC, i use a netgear wireless PCI card on my media PC witch is also running 9.04 and it found it and installed 3rd party drivers without a hitch

 

[oztrailrider]

I just did a fresh install of 9.04 on a second hand PC I am selling, the install was flawless and everything worked right out of the box. It's a far cry from when I first used Red Hat and Debian back in the 2.0.x kernel days.

 

[l337]

ubun gui is pretty average when compared to vista/win7 but i really do love the mouse icon/animations in ubuntu lol i wish i could port them to my xp/vista installs

 

[ithinkyou5.0]

you can theres hundreds of human thems for stylexp

 

[thor999]

If you want real pain follow jarod's mythtv guide, and set aside a good solid weekend.

You, sir, are not lying at all! I have lost much hair recently...

 

[purple_minion]

You, sir, are not lying at all! I have lost much hair recently...

LOL! Yup. Try mythbuntu, my god it's like night and day. You could have it almost golden in 1 -2 hours.

 

[thor999]

Yeah I just can't get the LIRC to work w/ my MCE remote and hauppage IR dongle, gonna try Mythbuntu again this weekend. Hey Purple check your messages, I believe I had made a request of you some time ago, did you not get it?

 

[Winston_Smith]

ubun gui is pretty average when compared to vista/win7 but i really do love the mouse icon/animations in ubuntu lol i wish i could port them to my xp/vista installs

The standard theme that comes with ubuntu is kind of lackluster for some, but it's just a theme.

I'd suggest a look at gnome-look.org, they have many themes, Also you can setup compiz to really make it pop. Really the sky is the limit, that and your cpu and gpu.

 

[NickCat11]

Has anyone had issues with 9.04 after rebooting for the second time. I have a 3 year old Dell I tried installing it on. The install went fine, restarted and took the cd out with no problem. On the second reboot I get a black screen on startup. There are a bunch of hits on Google with this problem but nothing resolved it permanently. I could get back in by entering special stuff into the command line but then right back to the same problem on reboot. I ended up going with Mint which works fine. I have 9.04 on my laptop and have no issues.

 

[NickCat11]

@nick, what was the special stuff? Were you just at a terminal? like;

root@yourbox:~$ ?

You call yourself a linux user and you don't know what "special stuff" means

Just kidding... sorry for not explaining. Here is one of the things I tried through recovery mode (there were others with the same result). This got me back in but after the next reboot I was back in the same boat. I am also relatively new to linux so there is a strong possibility I am missing something easy

1. Select recovery mode from the boot menu.
2. Select login as root from the menu in recovery mode.
3. Type this at the prompt

# sudo apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

4. Exit

# exit

5. Now select Resume normal boot from the menu

EDIT-The computer like I mentioned is 3-4 years old. 512 megs RAM, onboard video, intel processor. It seems like it's a video issue to me but I am not sure how to proceed.

 

[Karmtanty]

ubuntu 9 04

Hi again,just like to say that i dont currently have Ubuntu installed just Vista, so does that mean that i would have to have vista installed and Ubuntu so i can get the updates...or could i save driver up date to the sd card thats in the dongle?

 

[LunchBox]

I am using Ubutnu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). I switced when I could not re-install Vista. My laptop is an Everex ST534T. I had nothing to do it just worked.

My only problem was stand by (suspend) it doesn't work like its supposed to. Wireless, Bluetooth all worked out of the box.