So, I upgraded my Ubuntu installation from Gutsy to Hardy today on my precious laptop. It went pretty well except for the nvidia driver. I ended up having to copy one of my old configurations over xorg.conf to actually make it work. Just so anyone who has the same problem again (including myself) can fix it without being really lucky, here’s a link: A working xorg.conf for Gutsy and Hardy on the M1530 It ends up looking like this: The [...]
I wanted to speed up package downloading to set up my apt-proxy today in Gutsy, so I decided to find the correct way to find the fastest Ubuntu mirror. It’s actually done like so (stolen from here): Click on “System | Administration | Software Sources” Under “Ubuntu Sotware” tab, choose “Other” in the “Download from” list box. Choose your country and then click “Select Best Server” and choose the recommendation. This automatically updates the /etc/apt/sources.lst file. The same utility can [...]
If you, like me, were having issues like the following: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>=1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed The solution is adding this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted Apparently, they only put the new libpango libraries into gutsy-updates. That’s kinda lame IMHO.
Notice that I can do a -g for a progess bar! Yay! Now for an action shot: hank@rofl:~/tmp/coreutils-6.7$ cp -g coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb /nexus/mod0/www/deb/binary/ coreutils_6.7-1_i386.deb | 48% | 3.2 MiB | 118 KiB/s | ETA
Installing the package Most people will want this. Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list at the bottom: # Hankzilla deb http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/~hardwarehank/deb binary/ Then run a sudo apt-get update. Then install it with sudo apt-get install wxwaste. Run it with waste. Building from source Get it Install some dependencies: # Checkinstall is optional, but it makes it nice since removal is just thru apt. sudo apt-get install wx-common libwxgtk2.6-dev wx2.6-headers checkinstall Unpack the source, then ./configure && make && sudo checkinstall [...]
I recently was saddened when I found out that my side buttons wouldn’t map for some reason in Compiz Fusion after upgrading to Gutsy Gibbon. I finally got fed up and marched on down to #compiz-fusion on Freenode. 21:06 < Jupiter1tx> hardwarehank: ah there is the problem, if the settings are not saved then try to disable Integration in the Preferences section of ccsm 21:07 < hardwarehank> Jupiter1tx: thanks – trying it 21:07 < hardwarehank> ok – it still deletes [...]
I couldn’t get my stupid mouse to work properly, so I took action and edited my xorg.conf! Section “InputDevice” Identifier “Configured Mouse” Driver “mouse” Option “CorePointer” Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice” Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″ Option “Buttons” “7″ Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″ Option “Emulate3Buttons” “false” EndSection Also, Compiz Fusion seemed to keep control of my Windows key after I disabled all it’s bindings for it, and wouldn’t let it go until I restarted X. Oh well, my Amarok rating global hotkeys work again [...]
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