Re: [BLUG] thoroughly unimpressed with Hardy

I'm feeling a little better in having figured out one of these problems:

On Apr 27, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Joe Auty wrote:

> I'm wondering if any of you have had the problems I've had in a
> network update to Hardy:
>
>
> 1) My Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT cannot be properly probed to determine
> available resolutions, I'm stuck at 640x480 w. the proprietary
> Nvidia driver. Several other users have had this same problem, it's
> an open bug on Launchpad. For now, I'm stuck with the open source
> driver, where I get my full screen resolution, but no 3D acceleration.
>
> 2) Hardy completely messed up my lirc config. Even after recompiling
> the modules (which was necessary), I'm still having problems that
> didn't exist in Gutsy with the lirc_pvr150 kernel module. For now,
> I'm remote-less.
>

I figured this out, for some reason the new lirc config was claiming
the lirc_dev module for both my receiver and IR transmitter which was
causing a conflict. I only needed lirc_dev for my IR transmitter. I
fixed this both by recompiling the lirc modules as well as taking cues
from my old configuration.

> 3) Synergy now needs to be run as root
>

This is very weird. There is at least one thread about this on the
Ubuntu forums. The fix involves not only running as root, but sudoing
the command as a regular user. Otherwise, for me, the daemon will
periodically die and leave my cursor stuck. Hopefully there will be a
resolution for this one.

The Nvidia issue still lingers, annoyingly so.

>
>
>
> I'm thinking about downgrading back to Gutsy, but I'm kind of afraid
> to do that... I may have to wipe/reinstall. I guess next time I
> shouldn't count on these upgrades going as smoothly as my upgrade
> from Fiesty to Gutsy did.
>
> Anybody else having these sorts of difficulties?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [BLUG] thoroughly unimpressed with Hardy

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:18:00AM GMT, Joe Auty [joe@netmusician.org] said the following:
>
> 3) Synergy now needs to be run as root

That's very strange and not good.

> I'm thinking about downgrading back to Gutsy, but I'm kind of afraid
> to do that... I may have to wipe/reinstall. I guess next time I
> shouldn't count on these upgrades going as smoothly as my upgrade from
> Fiesty to Gutsy did.

I rarely do an "upgrade". I usually wipe and reinstall. Its a good
oppurtunity for me to clean things up like my home directory, discover
new software, drop unused software and avoid these wierd problems that
happen when you upgrade your operating system. It really is not a Linux
thing, its an OS thing. Windows, Linux, Mac.. same difference. Don't
upgrade. Reinstall. Except with Windows you also reinstall it to fix
most problems.

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Re: [BLUG] thoroughly unimpressed with Hardy

I did a clean install of Hardy, and Synergy as a server is working
without root requirements.

Did you have Synergy start up automatically as a added command to your
session startup? I haven't successfully gotten this to work in Gutsy
(haven't tried in Hardy). I just had to start the server manually
after logging in. In any case, I didn't have to become root though.

Chris W.

On Apr 27, 2008, at 9:26 PM, Simón A. Ruiz wrote:
> Joe Auty wrote:
>> Anybody else having these sorts of difficulties?
>
> Nope, though I've not UPGRADED to Hardy, just clean installed.
>
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Re: [BLUG] thoroughly unimpressed with Hardy

On Apr 27, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Simón A. Ruiz wrote:

> Joe Auty wrote:
>> Anybody else having these sorts of difficulties?
>
> Nope, though I've not UPGRADED to Hardy, just clean installed.
>

I may try it again with a clean install... Perhaps the Ubuntu team
should suggest that a clean install be the default means of upgrading
to prevent dummies like me from burning themselves? :)

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Re: [BLUG] thoroughly unimpressed with Hardy

Joe Auty wrote:
> Anybody else having these sorts of difficulties?

Nope, though I've not UPGRADED to Hardy, just clean installed.

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[BLUG] thoroughly unimpressed with Hardy

I'm wondering if any of you have had the problems I've had in a
network update to Hardy:

1) My Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT cannot be properly probed to determine
available resolutions, I'm stuck at 640x480 w. the proprietary Nvidia
driver. Several other users have had this same problem, it's an open
bug on Launchpad. For now, I'm stuck with the open source driver,
where I get my full screen resolution, but no 3D acceleration.

2) Hardy completely messed up my lirc config. Even after recompiling
the modules (which was necessary), I'm still having problems that
didn't exist in Gutsy with the lirc_pvr150 kernel module. For now, I'm
remote-less.

3) Synergy now needs to be run as root

I'm thinking about downgrading back to Gutsy, but I'm kind of afraid
to do that... I may have to wipe/reinstall. I guess next time I
shouldn't count on these upgrades going as smoothly as my upgrade from
Fiesty to Gutsy did.

Anybody else having these sorts of difficulties?

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Joe Auty
NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
http://www.netmusician.org
joe@netmusician.org

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