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7 Replies Last post: Nov 21, 2008 12:55 PM by dragon69

Evildave

1,309 posts since
Jan 24, 2008

Nov 11, 2008 11:11 PM

Upgraded to 8.10

OK, initially it slagged my 8.04 LTS partition (even 'recovery' wouldn't boot), but I had a backup, dragged my home folder over and went ahead and installed 8.10 fresh. Only took one evening to make the system fully functional again.

COMPIZ works. Got that all set up, and no issues like I had before. Big, purty spinning cube and stuff on two big monitors.

Not much to report difference-wize. Some cosmetic changes. I was able to load a native linux driver to run the oddball Dell wireless network card finally, but not without an 'issue' that needs a script to enable the thing. All the other devices seem content to run without complaints.

Envy seems to be more tightly integrated into the system.

RedRat

77 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

1. Nov 18, 2008 4:26 PM

in response to: Evildave

Re: Upgraded to 8.10

I gather you had little or no problems with the video card. Others have reported on the Ubuntu forums that they had difficulty with the NVidia card and the driver.

Evildave

1,309 posts since
Jan 24, 2008

2. Nov 18, 2008 5:15 PM

in response to: RedRat

Re: Upgraded to 8.10

I had a couple of dual-monitor related false starts, and Envy was different. Just a few iterations of tinkering. The display actually worked immediately, but my own tinkering, trying to settle on a display configuration I liked was what made it stop working. The 'latest, greatest' driver at the time that it 'recommended' turned out not to work. The previous version worked fine.

Likewise, the BCM4328 wireless now 'works' without ndiswrapper, but I have to run a little script to start it up.

RedRat

77 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

3. Nov 19, 2008 10:51 AM

in response to: Evildave

Re: Upgraded to 8.10

Thanks! I have heard that since 8.10 has come out, the updates to it also have been coming fast and furious also. Sounds like some of the early issues have been cleared up. I am going to put it on my home built AMD64 machine that is currently running XP but I will probably wait a few more months since that machine is serving as my "shared printer" resource and I have three computers using it constantly. Want to reduce any problems.

Evildave

1,309 posts since
Jan 24, 2008

4. Nov 20, 2008 12:45 PM

in response to: RedRat

Re: Upgraded to 8.10

Well, the ISO won't change, so booting it and seeing if it recognizes the hardware is simple enough.

Most likely enough people have tried it with your hardware to have work-arounds posted in the Ubuntu forum by now. If you remember any particularly problematic items, do some searches there against 8.10.

If you have an empty partition to install it onto, that's my recommendation. I wouldn't attempt to 'upgrade' again. It just tends to end up with me needing to reinstall anyway. Not that 'upgrading' Windows ever went smoothly, either.

Computecam

30 posts since
Jun 5, 2008

5. Nov 20, 2008 1:13 PM

in response to: Evildave

Re: Upgraded to 8.10

I tried out Ubuntu 8.10 the other day, (I liked the window draging effects that can be enabled) but it seemed to be having problems with video and sound... Even with the ATI drivers.

I was running it on my Emachines T5216 with 1 Gig of memory.

Evildave

1,309 posts since
Jan 24, 2008

6. Nov 20, 2008 1:18 PM

in response to: Computecam

Re: Upgraded to 8.10

Try installing Envy and see if there's a newer/different video driver.

Try a different sound driver (System->Preferences->Sound)

You might want to disable the extra visual effects, or try Kubuntu or Xubuntu, from there.

dragon69

326 posts since
Feb 3, 2007

7. Nov 21, 2008 12:55 PM

in response to: Evildave

Re: Upgraded to 8.10

have not upgraded to 8.10 yet (still 8.04) which envy ? legacy or NG?

downloaded the Fedora-9-x86_64-dvd ( but did not burn it yet or installl it yet)

and downloaded wubi ( but did not install it yet but soon 1 or the other will on my hdd)

compviz has some sweet eye candy ? what graphics card do you have exactly ? if you

don't mind me asking i am kind of a noob at this but i don't mind learning new stuff

oh and will envy ( i am assuming that legacy will not work but might give Envy NG a try ) work

with a ATI x1200 or x1250 ( device manager says it is x 1200 but other programs

sometimes says it is a x1250 oh msi says it is a x1200 too )on board chip ?

was going to try out the fedora first as red hat was the first linux i tried a while back ( before

their even was a fedora lol ) my triple boot has been giving me troubles so i might try

separate drives instead of seperate partitions ( just for less headaches I HOPE lol )

good luck and take care evildave (btw i don't think you are that evil maybe just a bit lol )

Chuck

amd dual core x2 6000 with 4 gb kit of gskill ddr2@800 and a msi 4670 with 1 gb ddr3 triple boot right now with vista home premium 64 and win 7 64 and ubuntu 9.04 64

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