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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NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
http://www.netmusician.org
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Re: [BLUG] Party Hardy!

On Friday 25 April 2008 10:32:42 am Steven Black wrote:
> Was that Koversation (KDE3) or Koversation-KDE4?
>
> I can see that sort of thing being lost between the KDE3->KDE4 versions.
> Then again, I can also see using a KDE4 app that isn't designed with a
> private KDE4-specific location in $(HOME) migrating data to the KDE4
> method, which results in the data being lost when used in the KDE3
> version again.
>
> I've not noticed any problems like that myself, but then on my Hardy
> system I do very little except SSH in to my work desktop (currently 6.06
> LTS). My work desktop uses Koversation, but I'll probably not bother
> installing any of the KDE4 apps there.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Black
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:47:58AM -0400, Lord Drachenblut wrote:
> > I want to throw in that Hardy managed to bite me slightly recently. On a
> > recent update, wish I would have kept track better, konversation managed
> > to lose all of my channels I had set already but it kept all my servers.
> > It also changed my default id's back to it's suggested names based on
> > user name. just a warning to everyone out there
> >
> >
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This was on KDE3 and I think it happened, can't date for sure, on the last set
of patches to come out right as hardy was going from beta to release. It was
something minor and the only problem I ran into. Also I should say this was
a clean install not a upgrade. All in all I was very happy with everything.
One other minor problem I want to throw out there to see if anyone else ran
into is if anyone used the alternative installer and had "weird issues" with
the display during install. The best way I can describe it is the
alternative installer didn't detect my laptops lcd properly and was very
fuzzy. but post install it all worked fine.

Cheers

Re: [BLUG] Party Hardy!

Oops, I have wireless now, so scratch all that. I somehow managed to reinstall the fwcutter through Synaptic, and it works now. Oh well. I also scratched the ndiswrapper-utils, so I guess the native thing works after all.

Matthew

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle@gmail.com> wrote:

I have also had a problem. Overall, I like Hardy, but I no longer have broadcom wireless support like I HAD easily under Gutsy. What's with that?! I had no problem just clicking on the hardware driver button in Gutsy, and had wireless. But now, I try that, and it just puts me through and endless cycle of  Enable? click yes......... "reboot required": after reboot, still no wireless, find System / Hardware drivers ... there it is again, check box unchecked, but says "in use". Click again on "Enable", "reboot required"........ over and over.

I finally followed directions on Ubuntu forums to a 't' to disable native driver and install ndiswrapper and cabextract blah blah blah and so forth and so on, with no success. Does anyone have any idea when Ubuntu will fix that? You'd think they could just leave the driver in they had last time if the new one wouldn't work...

Would it be possible to replace my wireless in this laptop? What card would anyone on the list recommend?

Thanks,
Matthew

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Steven Black <blacks@indiana.edu> wrote:

Was that Koversation (KDE3) or Koversation-KDE4?

I can see that sort of thing being lost between the KDE3->KDE4 versions.

Then again, I can also see using a KDE4 app that isn't designed with private KDE4-specific location in $(HOME) migrating data to the KDE4

method, which results in the data being lost when used in the KDE3
version again.

I've not noticed any problems like that myself, but then on my Hardy
system I do very little except SSH in to my work desktop (currently 6.06
LTS). My work desktop uses Koversation, but I'll probably not bother
installing any of the KDE4 apps there.

Cheers,
Steven Black

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:47:58AM -0400, Lord Drachenblut wrote:
> I want to throw in that Hardy managed to bite me slightly recently.  On a
> recent update, wish I would have kept track better, konversation managed to
> lose all of my channels I had set already but it kept all my servers.  It
> also changed my default id's back to it's suggested names based on user name.
> just a warning to everyone out there



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Re: [BLUG] Party Hardy!

I have also had a problem. Overall, I like Hardy, but I no longer have broadcom wireless support like I HAD easily under Gutsy. What's with that?! I had no problem just clicking on the hardware driver button in Gutsy, and had wireless. But now, I try that, and it just puts me through and endless cycle of  Enable? click yes......... "reboot required": after reboot, still no wireless, find System / Hardware drivers ... there it is again, check box unchecked, but says "in use". Click again on "Enable", "reboot required"........ over and over.

I finally followed directions on Ubuntu forums to a 't' to disable native driver and install ndiswrapper and cabextract blah blah blah and so forth and so on, with no success. Does anyone have any idea when Ubuntu will fix that? You'd think they could just leave the driver in they had last time if the new one wouldn't work...

Would it be possible to replace my wireless in this laptop? What card would anyone on the list recommend?

Thanks,
Matthew

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Steven Black <blacks@indiana.edu> wrote:

Was that Koversation (KDE3) or Koversation-KDE4?

I can see that sort of thing being lost between the KDE3->KDE4 versions.
Then again, I can also see using a KDE4 app that isn't designed with private KDE4-specific location in $(HOME) migrating data to the KDE4
method, which results in the data being lost when used in the KDE3
version again.

I've not noticed any problems like that myself, but then on my Hardy
system I do very little except SSH in to my work desktop (currently 6.06
LTS). My work desktop uses Koversation, but I'll probably not bother
installing any of the KDE4 apps there.

Cheers,
Steven Black

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:47:58AM -0400, Lord Drachenblut wrote:
> I want to throw in that Hardy managed to bite me slightly recently.  On a
> recent update, wish I would have kept track better, konversation managed to
> lose all of my channels I had set already but it kept all my servers.  It
> also changed my default id's back to it's suggested names based on user name.
> just a warning to everyone out there



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