Breezy amd64

[Andy Choens]

Wow. I really like Ubuntu, so this had all better be worth the trouble! :-) 
This hasn't been the easiest set-up in history. I've read a bunch on the 
internet and read past posts here, but I've got a few unresolved niggles. If 
anyone knows anything about any of these, feel free to tell me / everyone 
else know since many of these won't be specific to just my system.

SETUP
HP Pavilion zv6000. It's an AMD64 machine. 512 ram, dreaded ATI Radeon 
Xpress 200M, Broadcom Wireless, etc.


XSERVER
It boots, it even looks OK, but if I do something boring like ctrl-alt-F2, 
my screen goes all screwy. TIP: I have figured out that sometimes returning 
to tty7 and making it think I closed the monitor for a few seconds fixes the 
problem...but that's one hell of a "hack" workaround...and I still can't use 
my over ttys. If I start totem....I kill X completely. Ditto with Xine. 
Mplayer seems alright. I think my computer is trying really hard to have a 
splash screen, but I haven't seen it. I actually, don't see anything when it 
boots until it gets to GDM. There's a whole lot of black in between GRUB and 
GDM. 

To log in from GDM I have to include Option "NpAccel" in my xrg.conf in the 
video card section.

I instaled the fglrx stuff I found in synaptic, but it doesn't include my 
video card, so I may go download the latest and greatest and see if that 
breaks m system. But, ATI warns about having the 32-bit libs for several 
things like mesa installed (Yes, on a 64 bit system) and they don't seem to 
exist. Do I have to go do the chroot deal in order to use these? It's quite 
a waste of hard-drive space....and time/effort.


If anyone has any wisdom, I'm all about some advice.

JAVA

Yep, it works...sorta. I can run a program...but I can't get
OpenOffice.orgto recognize it.

I've searched the web and ave found nothing on this. Obviously, OOo was 
installed before java was on my machine. But, I've installed the deb and 
tried to set OOo up to use Java. When I go to the tools, to set it, OOo 
looks for an installed java, and even asks it for its classpath. My computer 
slows to a crawl for 15 - 20 seconds (with java running and consuming an 
immense amount of resources) and then OOo comes back and has found no 
installed jre. But, I KNOW there's a jre on the computer, and top proves 
that OOo is running the &^%$# thing. And to make it all the more fun....I 
need to use Base..so I need to figure this out.

I have the default Blackdown Java deb that I found in synaptic. Java doesn't 
seem to have a 64 bit version.


APT
At some point I hope they stabiliz the packages. For instance. I can't 
install VLC or K-3d because of dependency issues (wrong versions in the 
repositories of necessary libs). But, if anyone wants an amd64 deb of 
libdvdcss, I'll email it you. I think it's working. It's hard to tell with X 
and Totem not liking each other, but it didn't do anything weird in the 
compilation/installation.

Any advice, sympatheti shoulders, etc are much appreciated. This has been 
quite the bear.

--andy
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