ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 49, Issue 44

Wed Apr 29 17:31:04 UTC 2009

I ran the live-CD on my Acer Aspire 5040 and for the first time, my
wireless network card was detected. It's an Atheros card and my ATI
card works fine. So now I'm going to back everything out of Win XP and
move into Ubuntu permanently. Other than one or two apps that I need
in Windows (which I'll use a Virtual Machine for) I really don't need
Windows for much.

Andrew.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Chris Styve <chrisstyve at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I upgraded my older Acer laptop with Jaunty last night (dual boot Ubuntu and
> Linux).  The update went perfectly.  Under 8.10 I couldn't get Compiz to
> recognize the ATI 9000 mobility card, Jaunty recognized it right away.
> Another problem with 8.10 was with VPN settings (not saving the "refuse EAP"
> setting).  Jaunty has fixed this.  Ever since 8.04 I had not used ubuntu as
> much due to video driver problems and VPN issues.  Now that this has been
> fixed in 9.04 I'm back to Ubuntu and less on Windows.
>
> P.S. 9.04 boots much faster.
>
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>   1. Re: ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 49, Issue 43 (geo)
>   2. Re: Jaunty experiences? (Mike.lifeguard)
>   3. Re: Jaunty experiences? (Brian McKee)
>   4. Re: Jaunty experiences? (Brian McKee)
>   5. Re: Jaunty experiences? (Bran Everseeking)
>   6. Re: Jaunty experiences? (Joel Goguen)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:33:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: geo <yaktur at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 49, Issue 43
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com, rebartel at vcn.bc.ca
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> Thanks for the link Rudy but it's too late, I've already started making
> changes....I'm also going to trade in my computer for something different (a
> small used computer place in town does this), something with a better
> graphics card without these headaches.
> ?
> I can't have the computer mess up like this when I'm not at home to tend to
> it because then my wife gets very upset and she's not computer literate so
> she could never solve something like this on her own.
> ?
> geo
> ?
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:44:00 -0700
> From: "Rudy Bartel" <rebartel at vcn.bc.ca>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.04, suddenly why does logging back in cause
> ??? black screen?
> To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <op.us2vbmkbaywcrh at home.rudybartel.info>
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> That's too bad, it would be a shame to have to reinstall back to an older
> version.
>
> Have you tried the work-around suggestions at the Ubuntu troubleshooting
> page for this problem:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/BlankScreen
>
> --
> Rudy.
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> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:35:27 -0700, geo <yaktur at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Yea, I don't have any backwards steps to take on my system. So if?
>> there's no way to undo the damage system updates have caused me, my?
>> simplest solution is to just reinstall the system. Blah, not the way I?
>> wanted to spend the evening.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> geo
>>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:16:45 -0300
> From: "Mike.lifeguard" <mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm>
> Subject: Re: Jaunty experiences?
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1240935405.4102.24.camel at mikelifeguard-laptop>
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> Yes, there are several issues (see
> http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-video/2009/maintracks/ext4.xvid.avi
> or https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781 for
> example) but there are large performance benefits, and those issues are
> close to being resolved. I did say "thinking about" it :D In the end, I
> think I will wait for several of those issues to be resolved: 1) online
> defrag - not a huge issue, but ext4 isn't ready until that's implemented
> 2) the issue with tiny dotfiles (etc) being lost on crash is actually
> not ext4's fault, but a workaround is either in the works or newly
> applied (I'm not sure where to look to figure that out) and as I am on a
> laptop, I'd like that resolved before adopting (though of course
> applications need to be fixed) 3) can't remember... I think it was that
> converting back and forth isn't ready (maybe I'm wrong on that...)
>
> So, those are enough for me to wait. But now I know better what I'm
> doing when I do transition.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 22:39 -0400, Andrew Mathenge wrote:
>
>> Out of curiosity, why are you thinking of going to ext4? ext3 under
>> Jaunty works really well. The code for ext4 is fairly new (December
>> 25th, 2008) and looks like it's geared to super large file systems.
>> Even though the attractiveness of some of the newer features (e.g.,
>> performance, 64-bit storage limits for large file systems) are
>> attractive, perhaps waiting a year, or a couple of years, for the code
>> to mature might be worth it.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Mike.lifeguard
>> <mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> > I'm actually in the middle of an upgrade right now. I was thinking of
> using
>> > ext4 - how does one convert the filesystem? I guess there is an option
> to do
>> > that in Gparted - is that what I should be looking for?
>> >
>> > -Mike
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:24 -0300, Doooh Head wrote:
>> >
>> >> I think the error 2 was caused by my not repartitioning the drive, and
>> >> just using the old partitions but formatting them. Apparently older
>> >> versions of ubuntu used a 128B inode size for ext3, and 9.04 uses
>> >> inodes of 256B. A quick reinstall of grub to the MBR fixed that
>> >> problem right up.
>> >
>> >
>> > Oh that was something I attempted as well since I had to reinstall. I
>> > reformatted my main partition to use the new ext4 file system. From what
>> > I've read its supposed to be faster but may have some issues. So far its
>> > been ok.
>> >
>> > Doooh
>> >
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> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:40:28 -0400
> From: Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Jaunty experiences?
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Doooh Head <doooh_head at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Well everyone, its been a few days.? Has anyone upgraded to 9.04 yet, if
> so
>> what has your experience been like so far?
>
> I'm quite happy with Jaunty so far.   I've got a niggling thing going
> on that's likely related to the intel driver issues, and one complaint
> that's surfaced recently.
>
> See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/332945?commen
> ts=all
>
> How do you like my new email .sig?
> Brian
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:41:44 -0400
> From: Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Jaunty experiences?
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>> See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/332945?commen
> ts=all
>>
>> How do you like my new email .sig?
>
>
> So new it didn't even show up on that email!
>
> --
> All you need to know about Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty -> gconftool -s --type
> bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:00:24 -0600
> From: Bran Everseeking <bran.everseeking at sasktel.net>
> Subject: Re: Jaunty experiences?
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20090428170024.3375c120 at lillith>
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> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:40:28 -0400
> Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> one complaint
>> that's surfaced recently.
>>
>> See
>>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/332945?commen
> ts=all
>
> up to you to revert.  they are not going to change that stupidity
>
> gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
>
> and restart X to get back to the old preferred better notification
>
> --
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> essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy
> condition.- Robert Heinlein
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:11:23 -0300
> From: Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca>
> Subject: Re: Jaunty experiences?
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1240960283.17080.1.camel at hermes>
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> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 17:00 -0600, Bran Everseeking wrote:
>> and restart X to get back to the old preferred better notification
> I didn't have to restart X, it just started working as soon as I changed
> the gconf key.
>
> --
> Joel Goguen
> Ubuntu User #15951
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