Thread: Ubuntu 8.10 Release

what it is telling you after activating it, you may need to reboot your system once after updating this and if you want to manually search for drivers then check synaptic package manager(System>>administration>>synaptic package manager)

from there you can get everything you need for your linux

first run updates..let all the updates be installed..restart..then enable restricted driver..then again restart...

Originally Posted by mahehellraiser

first run updates..let all the updates be installed..restart..then enable restricted driver..then again restart...

yes try this please

Originally Posted by smoothvibes

yes try this please

yes updating 140Mb updates available .lets see.

ayo..u shud have unchecked all open-office updates....i'm not a big fan of open-office..

Originally Posted by mahehellraiser

ayo..u shud have unchecked all open-office updates....i'm not a big fan of open-office..

actually i am new now my aim is to correct my graphics to 1024x768

this might be helpful...read on

1. apply all updates

2. install restricted drivers

3. turn on subpixels

4. tame your touchpad

5. read about the bugs

6. increase font size in Firefox

7. install full multimedia support

8. make NumLock turn on automatically

9. give yourself full USB rights

10. install Brightness Applet

11. improve backward compatibility

12. make media player VLC function properly



1. Apply all available updates. Afterwards reboot your computer (not always necessary, but do it just to make sure).



2. Make sure all hardware is working properly and install missing drivers.

Drivers installation is usually not necessary, because they are already present in the Linux kernel. One exception is the proprietary restricted drivers for Nvidia and ATI graphics cards. For optimal performance of your Nvidia or ATI graphics card, you'll want to install the closed source restricted driver (the proprietary driver).

The Restricted drivers manager alerts you automatically about the availability of restricted drivers for your graphics card, by a notification in the system tray in the upper panel of your screen (on the right). Click on the notification icon and follow the steps. If there is no automatic alert, perform a manual check: System - Administration - Hardware Drivers.

The required driver is then automatically downloaded from the internet, from the software repositories of Ubuntu, and (also automatically) installed. Afterwards you will have to do a full reboot of your computer. Ubuntu will issue an alert for that.

Do you have a graphics card of the brand ATI or Nvidia, which is so new that the proprietary restricted driver version in the software repositories of Ubuntu is too old? Then you can use the latest restricted driver of ATI or Nvidia. An easy tool named Envy (envyng-gtk) will take care of downloading and installing the latest ATI or Nvidia driver for you.

This package is in the Universe software repository of Ubuntu: in order to access that respository, you must first enable all repositories, both official and semi-official. For example by applying the multimedia how-to.

Afterwards you can install envyng-gtk as follows:

System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager

Search word: envyng-gtk

Tick it and press the Apply button.

After the installation: start envyng-gtk through Applications - System Tools.

Note: The use of envyng-gtk is an "emergency measure". If everything works fine with the somewhat older restricted driver for ATI or Nvidia from the repositories of Ubuntu, then you should stick with that one. Only the restricted driver in the repositories is tested for stability in Ubuntu.


3. If you have a TFT display (LCD), turn on the subpixel rendering:

System - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts

Put the dot at: Subpixel smoothing (LCDs).



4. Have a laptop? Tame your touchpad:

System - Preferences - Mouse - tab Touchpad

Remove the tick at "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad".



5. Look at the solutions for nine bugs in 8.04. Don't skip this!



6. Fonts too small on the web pages you view in Firefox?

Increase the fonts as follows:

Keep the Ctrl key pressed and press as many times the plus key (+) in the numeric keypad, until the desired size is reached. Reduce size: keep the Ctrl key pressed and press the minus key (-).

This will increase, however, both text and images on web pages. Thus, the images often become ugly. Limit the increase therefore to "text only".

As follows: Firefox toolbar - View - Zoom - tick: Zoom Text Only.

Handy add-ons (such as Adblock and NoScript) are installable in Firefox as follows:

Firefox toolbar - Tools - Add-ons - Get Add-ons - Browse All Add-ons.

Note: keep the number of add-ons limited, because otherwise Firefox will become noticeably slower.


7. Install full multimedia support (mp3, Adobe Flash Player, Sun Java, Microsoft fonts, etc.) following this guide: multimedia support



8. Activate the numeric section of your keyboard (not for laptops).

Note: This instruction does not apply to laptops.
It's useful for NumLock to be switched on automatically when you start Ubuntu. As follows:

System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager

Search word: numlockx

Tick it and press the Apply button.


9. Give yourself full user rights on USB devices

Particularly using scanners can be tricky, because as a user you don't have full rights over all USB devices. A security feature, but an annoying exaggeration. Remedy this as follows:

System - Administration - Users and Groups

Click on your user name

Click on the button "Unlock"

Properties button - tab User Privileges

and make sure that every category is ticked.

Are there other user accounts but yours? Then repeat these steps for the other accounts. But, of course, for those others don't tick "Administer the system". That's a privilege that belongs only to the administrative user account (you).


10. Install the Brightness Applet on your laptop

a. Right click with the mouse on the upper panel

b. Choose Add to panel....

c. select Brightness Applet.


11. Improve backward compatibility

Install an extra library file to improve backward compatibility for some applications.

System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager

search word: libstdc++5

(the first letter is an L)

Tick it and press Apply.


12. Make VLC media player function properly

VLC media player sometimes doesn't function properly on the new sound system Pulse Audio. Let it function on the old audio system ALSA:

a. Start VLC media player

b. panel:

Settings - Preferences... - Audio - Output modules

c. Tick: Advanced options (in the lower right corner)

d. Audio output module: change it into "ALSA audio output".

e. Click "Save" and close VLC.

thats great mate nice post repo for you

thanx bro...

@subra

what happened???

Originally Posted by mahehellraiser

thanx bro...

@subra

what happened???

I have somehow corrected the monitor resolution , the program envy automatically downloaded the nvidia driver but till now can not use the driver

hmmm may be ur card/display series is black-listed....

Originally Posted by mahehellraiser

hmmm may be ur card/display series is black-listed....

One more time i installed driver through envy now monitor out of range help me to uninstall those drivers and get back to earlier position other i can not booot without seeing.

ohh...try ctrl-alt-backspace.......

check this once
Linux Display Driver - x86


and please check this page too
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/nvidia-glx-177

on the bottom of this page you will get the link to download drivers for your nvidia 6200

Originally Posted by smoothvibes

check this once
Linux Display Driver - x86

how to unistall previous drivers i am unable to boot any command from dos mode i have downloaded the drivers from th link

u're not getting anything on the display??..or any lines??

Originally Posted by mahehellraiser

u're not getting anything on the display??..or any lines??

Monitor frequency out of range tried ctrl+alt+backspace not workin still ot of range

no..that was to logout..and restart..

Originally Posted by subra007

how to unistall previous drivers i am unable to boot any command from dos mode i have downloaded the drivers from th link

just try this guide mate
it will help you

NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver README and Installation Guide

to uninstall..u shud atleast be in a position to see the contents in synaptic..try that guide by smoothvibes and see

1. After a lot of try i some how managed my onboard ATI graphics to get 1024x768 pixel but now i want to get rid of nvidia its not working i want to uninstall the nvidia driver,help.

2. what about multimedia feature is there any way to enable all multimedia options in one click please tell if any.

3.i am getting error in update everything installed ecept 1 update namely" linux image 2.6.24-.19.41_amd64.dev" and getting message

"unable to make backup link of `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic' before installing new version"

what series is it??..i mean ATI radeon or what??

Can you post the output of

Code:

sudo cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

From the screen shot it looks like you are currently using drivers inbuilt in linux kernel for your display. If you are still getting the error that means that it should not be related to your graphics driver nvidia or ati.

Originally Posted by gauviz

Can you post the output of

Code:

sudo cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

From the screen shot it looks like you are currently using drivers inbuilt in linux kernel for your display. If you are still getting the error that means that it should not be related to your graphics driver nvidia or ati.

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

Originally Posted by gauviz

Can you post the output of

Code:

sudo cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

From the screen shot it looks like you are currently using drivers inbuilt in linux kernel for your display. If you are still getting the error that means that it should not be related to your graphics driver nvidia or ati.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Defaultdepth 24
EndSection

Now restricted drivers in use now help me to get screen resolution 1024x768.