[ubuntu-uk] My Hardy problems and their fixes

[Gavin Ford]

I've had a few problems since upgrading to Hardy, now I've got most of them 
sorted I thought it would be helpful to share the solutions I've found.



Broadcom WiFi was slow and unreliable
This was down to defaulting to the Open Source Broadcom driver, which is 
cripplingly slow and seemed to just plain stop in the middle of transfers.  
Hopefully this will get better in future, but it's no use to me at the moment.

Simple solution was to disable the Free driver, then reinstall NDISwrapper.  
Speeds climbed back from 60kB/s to 700kB/s on FTPs about the LAN.  Much better.

Useful info on stopping the OSS driver and re-enabling NDISwrapper here:
http://www.ubuntu1501.com/2008/04/ndiswrapper-in-hardy-heron.html



MPlayer plug-in for Firefox 3
Well, after upgrading to Hardy, it didn't work.  I tried disabling the totem 
plugins using the nice new plugins interface in Firefox 3, via Tools > Add-ons
then click Plugins, but no luck.

The new hiding place for mozilla plugins on Hardy is 
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins
so I backed up and removed the Totem plugins and restarted Firefox, worked like
magic.

Open a terminal and enter these commands:
  cd /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/
  sudo mkdir plugins-disabled
  sudo mv plugins/libtotem-* plugins-disabled/ 


Running anything with sudo will ask for your password the first time, this is 
normal, don't worry about it.

Restart Firefox and all is well.



Liferea uses up all available CPU time
Well, still not found a satisfactory fix for this one.  Restarting the app 
seems to fix it.  It only goes ape on startup and then not every time.

If it goes loopy on startup, shut it down and restart it.

-- 
Gav Ford
revford at blueyonder.co.uk 
http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk 
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