Comments on: Feisty beta gets a big +1 from me http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ubuntu - SysInside http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-38669 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:04:38 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-38669 [...] http://www.masuran.org, technical-itch.co.uk, lunapark6.com, cpbotha.net, Only Ubuntu Linux, Motho ke motho ka botho, OSNews, Seopher.com, Masuran.org, blogbeebe, [...]

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]]> By: 043087m135 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-11127 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:21:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-11127 I’m a fairly recent Ubuntu convert, since the beginning of Edgy. I’ve got my family’s network running Feisty, and they all love it. I used to run their 6 computer wireless network with XP but they were experiencing near-constant connectivity issues, spyware, viruses, slow load times, crashed applications, even in the face of yearly fresh reinstalls. You all know the story. I run feisty on my main desktop (950 mhz, GeForce MX 440) and it’s awesome using xfce4 and beryl. HOWEVER I had a similiar HUGE backstep when it came to my laptop’s video card. Everything was copasetic under edgy on my pavilian n9454 with the integrated intel video card, but when I upgraded to feisty…black screen. I’ve dinked with the config scripts endlessly…It appears to have something to do with the secondary monitor hookup and/or tvOut. Anybody know of an easy way I can roll back my intel video drivers to the Edgy versions? Heh.

]]> By: zaka http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-7608 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:37:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-7608 No way of getting my “nvidia geforce 440 go” to work.
black screen black screen black screen…etc

]]> By: Totally Infected http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-2700 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:25:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-2700 Hi, just passing through, checking out reviews of 7.04… one thing I might be able to add for you… MintDisk, it’s a great feature of Linux Mint (an Ubuntu-based distro) that auto-mounts anything not in your fstab. Actually they have a few great custom adds. But you can check their forums – main page –> special projects and find the Linux Mint repo and just borrow it from them to run on Ubuntu I think. hope that’s a solution for you. I run Linux mint and it finds my 3 internal drives with multiple partitions (Fat32 & NTFS) + auto-mounts my USB or F/W externals (both HDD and Flash) with no problems.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-2528 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:48:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-2528 Sorry Michael. I’ve tried and tried and tried, and no matter what setup or what configuration I use, that 9631 driver leaves me with a dead screen. I’ve messed with it in Ubuntu, in Arch and even tried SLAX, and it’s a no-go on my machine. Consider yourself lucky. For my own part, I’ll stick to rebuilding the 8776 driver.

]]> By: Michael http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-2486 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:15:33 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-2486 Hi

Been playing with the feisty beta for a while now on my laptop, thought you might like to know that I have been able to get the Nvidia GeForce4 440 Go 64M (NV17 i think)working using the binary drivers from Nvidia, the 1.0-9631 version was the last to support the card.

Cheers :-)

]]> By: Lionel http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-1438 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:38:04 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-1438 I’ve use SuSe, Mandrake, Red Hat, Mandriva, Fedora (in that order) and as of yesterday Ubuntu. Out of all the ditros, Ubuntu was by far the easiest to install, the desktop looks crisp and clean and it works great though a little slow to start up. Had to fiddle around with the sound a little. Didn’t like the creative 5.1 sound card I put in or the USB card.

After installing the updates and downloading some packages inc Beryl I have no issues to speak of and a very cool looking 3D desktop.

So other than a few issues with some hardware and the learning curve of a new OS Ubuntu has replaced an XP machine I was using for a media center. I had tried earlier this year with Fedora 4,5 & 6 but could never get them to install. Mandriva 2007 Free installed and worked but the video was pixelated and the sound was low.

AMD Duron 2100+
1GB DDR2
2 x 200Gb HD
1 x 80Gb HD
NVidia FX 5200 128Mb (PCI)

]]> By: Yaron Sh. http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-1326 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:00:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-1326 I have tried fresh install of kubuntu.
What can I say? I understood again why microsoft dominates the OS world.
For 7.04, They said that it would be easier for the novice user but I haven’t seen anything for example that makes 3D desktop definition easier. I tried to select ati-fglrx driver for my G800 card through the setup console but it seems to have no effect. I haven’t found any 3d related desktop wizards.
For the internet connection I had to use Konsole, the connection lags all the time and tend to disconnect. (Simple ADSL connection).
I couldn’t find any GUI application to help me edit the OS loader sequence.
The help file is a complete mess.
There are so many distros out there, some claim to be as easy as windows (Mandriva for example) but you always find yourself editing the xorg.conf and following all these endless workarounds.

]]> By: detto http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-1325 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:25:21 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/feisty-beta-gets-a-big-1-from-me/#comment-1325 Tried Feisty Beta now for 2 days:
LiveCD is too slow for my taste but the installer is nice.
First boot was a bit slow, now its acceptable.
The codec detection+installation went fine and is a nice solution, but still i had to add more things to get a fully functional desktop (java, flash, *-dev packages (oh my god that was much!)).
Now everything works, except some applications that rely on the jack sound server. There is no entry for jackd in the services-GUI and i dont have a clue how to set it up here.
An annoyance is this pretty strange behaviour of mounting other partitions: if entries are commented in fstab, then its not automounted but it gets its entries in /media (as it should, fine), BUT if they’re uncommented in fstab and get automounted in specified mountpoint, they dont appear in “Places” menu. Pretty strange imo.
Today a kernel update came in, rebooted and X didnt appear becasue they forgot to upload nvidia package. Well, old kernel was still there, so no big problem.
Btw, the nvidia driver update with the GUI went really nice, cool thing. BUT xorg.conf is totally sucking: after driver installation the DRI section was still there, resolution settings didnt allow me to set 1280×1024, keyboard was set to US instead to DE, and the mouse section needed some work to get all buttons working.

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