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Re: updated to 9.10

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:30:10 EDT

Cajun Man posted : Well I did a clean install of 9.10. So far the only thing I noticed is it has the same problem as 9.04.

If I installed the nvidia driver it recommends, then go to System/prefs/display I get the graphics driver does not support necessary extensions and do I want to use graphics drivers tool.

When I use it, I can change screenmode, but if I want to go from 24 bit to 16 bit color to see if something will run on it, it won't apply the settings. If I just change the size and it will apply, but lowering the color depth says it can't apply all settings.

I did reboot after installing the nvidia drivers.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:32:03 EDT

Santa Fe posted : Cool! Update manager said I had 38 updates, so I installed them & now it's working fine! (Well for some reason Frozen Bubble doesn't work right, but it's only a game & I already went thru all 100 levels so no biggie!)
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Re: updated to 9.10

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:57:37 EDT

Derspankster posted : Did and update today to 9.10 and now I cannot access my server via VNC. Just get a black screen. Well, it did take a few days for my first problem to surface.

Never mind - server puked, had to do a cold reboot.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:51:56 EDT

TCub posted : You're suggestion led me to trying to install Ubuntu yet again.. this time, with success!

In the first menu I hit "F4" to display options and chose Safe Graphics Mode... With that selected I was able to jump right in and install it alongside Windows 7 with no problems! Thanks for the help everyone... I'll be back... :)
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Re: updated to 9.10

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:34:53 EDT

MHoltum posted : My son jumped into upgrading his box last night thinking it would take awhile he started at 10pm and started a movie.

The download only took 27 minutes and I believe the install and removal of outdated apps took about 30 or so minutes. I was amazed at how quickly it moved along. \

When he went to do the system reboot it just hung there displaying a black screen. He was a little worried and simply unplugged it and then tried again. Booted fine. Works great.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:25:40 EDT

anon posted : edit - freecell is now an option from AisleRiot, under 'Game', 'Select Game'. instead of its own entry in the Games list, so that issue is moot.

Re: updated to 9.10

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:18:09 EDT

anon posted : I was going to wait a few days at least, but I used the extra hour today to upgrade to 9.10 and it went very smoothly. It took longer to install than it did to download, but all told it was about 2.2 hours. I actually have better sound, and no real issues at all, so I'm pretty impressed so far. Even my old Logitech Quickcam is working. I did have to do some digging to recover grip, and for some reason I can't seem to restore freecell no matter what I try, but those aren't major issues. I have not noticed any faster boot times yet.

Kudos to all the Ubuntu team for their efforts.

Re: updated to 9.10

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:52:26 EDT

TCub posted : I'll give that a try when I get home! I also had a hunch it was my video card as that was causing issues in 9.04... I have 2 Radeon HD3870's in Crossfire... :( I'm sure now I could get it working once inside Ubuntu (with Snakeoil and DSLR's help.. :) ) but if its hanging on installation.. Damn.

If I can get it into recovery mode could I install Ubuntu from there? Thank you!
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:36:27 EDT

kleeman posted : You need to boot it in recovery mode to see whether the video drivers are the problem. Look for this option when you get to the livecd initial menu. *One* possibility is that the video drivers aren't working judging from where it hung but this can be hard to tell definitively. If it doesn't hang in recovery mode then the video drivers are very likely the culprit. What video card do you have?
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:10:53 EDT

TCub posted : Okay, so with the new ISO and slower burn speed (8x is the slowest Disk Utility will allow in OS X BTW...) the same issue is occurring. I've taken pictures of it this time so you can see exactly what's happening...

Here what comes up first after I tell Ubuntu I want to install it...

Then I get this screen...

Then it goes black after a few seconds.. I've let it sit for almost an hour and there's no hard drive or CD drive activity whatsoever... When I press the power button on my laptop, I get this screen...

After that I eject the disk and hit enter and I'm stuck with a laptop running only Windows 7 and my iMac... :(

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

EDIT.. photobucket is acting stupid but if you click on any of the thumbnails you'll be able to see all of the pictures.. it was either this or have the full size image posted here which would have been annoying.. My apologies
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:49:19 EDT

timcuth posted :

said by Selenia:

Congrats. Which desktop environment are you using? I already tackled the no sound problem on a couple KDE machines. Seems XFCE does not have that issue. Not sure about GNOME, as KDE and XFCE are my desktops of choice, depending on the machine.

I'm using Gnome.

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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:52:16 EDT

Selenia posted :

said by Jason:

I've upgraded 2 Gnome 9.10 laptops so far, and not only no audio problems, but the upgrade actually fixed both laptops internal Mic not working.

Dell Mini10V netbook, and HP Pavilion 9100

-Jason

I only have seen the no sound issue in KDE. It is relatively trivial to fix. Mainly just making sure pulseaudio does not try to dominate as the sound server, as most KDE apps are not setup to use it and the default sound is much better for the KDE environment.

Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:50:12 EDT

Jason posted : I've upgraded 2 Gnome 9.10 laptops so far, and not only no audio problems, but the upgrade actually fixed both laptops internal Mic not working.

Dell Mini10V netbook, and HP Pavilion 9100

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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:47:44 EDT

Selenia posted :

said by timcuth:

said by timcuth:

The 9.10 upgrade killed my PC. :( Everything worked fine all the way through the upgrade process. Then, I restarted the PC when instructed. It booted up to the point of a text "login:" message on a screen that was flickering very badly. It would not accept all of my keystrokes, so it was impossible to enter the correct password.

I powered the PC down for a minute, then restarted again. It did the same thing. :huh:

Tim

I got it fixed. I booted in recovery mode, which came up to a text login, but the display was stable and I could log in.

Then, I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed Driver="nvidia" to Driver="nv". This allowed me to boot up in GUI mode, but still without a proper driver - kind of like Windows in VGA mode. Finally, I downloaded driver 190.42 from the nVidia web site, installed it as usual, and now the display is working, correctly.

Next problem to tackle - no audio. :hmm:

Tim

Congrats. Which desktop environment are you using? I already tackled the no sound problem on a couple KDE machines. Seems XFCE does not have that issue. Not sure about GNOME, as KDE and XFCE are my desktops of choice, depending on the machine.

Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:33:43 EDT

timcuth posted :

Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:12:15 EDT

Selenia posted :

said by jdong:

optical drives can be notoriously awesome at being flakey. Trying lower burn speeds an diffferent media is always a good idea.

Another tip, select Check CD For Defects from the bootup menu BEFORE installing. The only machine that can tell you whether or not it can read the whole CD is the machine that'll be reading the whole CD ;-)

I never dare burn bootable media such as a Linux CD above 4x, even though I got a nice Pioneer DVD-RW. I do most other things at half speed. I'd rather not waste media. I can wait a few minutes for my fresh cd.

Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:35:39 EDT

rexbinary posted :

said by TCub:

Now, I had originally burned a copy that I downloaded from Bittorrent (link provided by Ubuntu) and the copy I just got from a mirror (link also provided by Ubuntu), so could there be a difference between the two? Maybe the BT ISO is corrupt somehow? I find it unlikely but still something to consider. This disk was also burned at 8x instead of 24x.

Checking integrity right now...

Usually iso files downloaded via bittorrent are more robust as far as corruption is concerned because bittorrent performs integrity checking during the transfer.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:50:05 EDT

TCub posted : Well, first I tried running the LiveCD and it hung. Then I tried installing it and it hung. Then I tried installing it via Wubi and it hung after the installation and initial boot.. :(

All forms of the installation exhibited the same issue. From what I could see at least... The new image is burned and verified on my iMac. I'm going to put it in the m17, verify disk integrity and then try to install it.

Now, I had originally burned a copy that I downloaded from Bittorrent (link provided by Ubuntu) and the copy I just got from a mirror (link also provided by Ubuntu), so could there be a difference between the two? Maybe the BT ISO is corrupt somehow? I find it unlikely but still something to consider. This disk was also burned at 8x instead of 24x.

Checking integrity right now...
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:41:30 EDT

jdong posted : Yeah when booted up off a LiveCD there's no way that Ubuntu will let you eject the CD using the eject button on the drive; that's expected behavior.

What's scary behavior is the hanging you're seeing, and it'd be important to know if it's due to read errors (which dmesg will scream about) or some weirder operating system bug.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:31:40 EDT

TCub posted : Will do! I know after sitting for 30+ minutes I tried to eject the disk but it wouldn't come out. I hit the power button and a screen appeared that said something along the lines of "Power Button Pressed! Please eject disk and hit enter..." After that the CD will eject and then the computer restarts. I'm about to burn the other copy but I may not get a chance to install it tonight. I'll report back when I do however.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:26:46 EDT

jdong posted : If the install stops again, try looking at dmesg output at a terminal to see if the kernel spews any funny errors.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:45:30 EDT

TCub posted :

Yeah... I did check CD for defects after it didn't work.. odd thing was it said all was good. Regardless I'm hoping that a slower burn and getting my ISO from a different source will help out.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:27:26 EDT

jdong posted : optical drives can be notoriously awesome at being flakey. Trying lower burn speeds an diffferent media is always a good idea.

Another tip, select Check CD For Defects from the bootup menu BEFORE installing. The only machine that can tell you whether or not it can read the whole CD is the machine that'll be reading the whole CD ;-)
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:43:51 EDT

TCub posted : Bollocks... I downloaded Ubuntu via the BT link they provide... burned it on my iMac which verified the data afterwards..

I put it in my m17 and booted it up... install seemed be going normal. I selected the language, told it I wanted install and then the screen just goes black. There's some HDD and CD activity for a few minutes and then it just stops.

I also tried installing it in Windows via Wubi and it installed out but when I booted into Linux I came across the same issue.. I verify disk integrity and it checked out okay.

I'm currently downloading Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop i386 image from a mirror I got from Ubuntu's site.. I'm hoping there was just something wrong with my disk.

I also noted that I had burned the disk at 24x instead of a slower speed. Other than trying to download it from a different source and burning it at a slower speed, does anyone have any ideas on what I could do?
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:16:35 EDT

rawwhide posted :

said by Selenia:

I upgraded a pc with very close cpu specs and Karmic is faster, fyi. AMD Athlon XP@2.4 GHz 1.5 GB of RAM

Guess it never hurts to give it a try. I can always go back. :)
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:03:20 EDT

Santa Fe posted : After using it awhile, I think that I'm gonna wait till I get the Ubuntu 9.10 CD-Rom & do a clean install. Something must have happened when i updated, cause it's real SLOW doing most everything. When it takes 15 seconds to load Firefox when before it only took less than a second, somethings messed up! Probably when I manually added KDE via Synaptic.

I would burn an ISO image, if my dvd +/- RW drive hadn't died on me. Figures, had this Dell for 5 years, used the DVD-Rom drive all the time, and the recordable drive 1 or 2 times, and THAT'S the one that croaks. :D
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:23:28 EDT

jdong posted : I was amused too. Bug filed --- I'll tend to it :)
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:11:44 EDT

OutOfMem posted : Have any of you tried changing the brightness of your netbook's LCD on Karmic using the Fn keys?

If I try this on my MSI Wind, it goes insane, flickering the screen like it's having a seizure, until I click the "Applications" button. This only happens on an X server screen, not when I am in a virtual terminal, such as CTRL + ATL + F1.

I tried adding the "nomodeset" kernel parameter, according to a comment in the bug report, but it made no difference.

This might be an exclusive MSI Wind issue, and other netbook users might be safe.

Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:58:34 EDT

Selenia posted : Ouch. That is kind of funny. I didn't see any kernel error. maybe it only applies in a particular circumstance. Being a developer, I'm sure you already got it solved LOL. Seems to be mentioning apparmor, though I can't tell if it could be the culprit from the limited info. Did you try sudo aa-complain /path/to/epsxe just for the heck of it?

Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:56:17 EDT

tim_k posted : Since 9.04 broke some things on my HP HDX18 laptop, I did a clean install on it. So far I like it and everything except for the built in webcam seems to be working. It appears to be faster and the fonts seems to be better looking. On my desktop I tried an upgrade but the repository couldn't be found. I'll work on that later.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:51:22 EDT

Selenia posted : I upgraded a pc with very close cpu specs and Karmic is faster, fyi. AMD Athlon XP@2.4 GHz 1.5 GB of RAM

Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:44:58 EDT

rawwhide posted : I think im going to keep 9.04 on my older p4 2.4g system(im still debating this though). I think I might wait a little bit before I upgrade my main system to 9.10.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:37:05 EDT

jdong posted :

one[18118.395977] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000068[18118.395987] IP: [] apparmor_bprm_set_creds+0x340/0x430[18118.396291] PGD 259c4067 PUD 5f5fe067 PMD 0 [18118.396296] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [18118.396302] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/block/dm-0/uevent[18118.396354] CPU 1 [18118.396379] Modules linked in: ecb vmblock vsock vmmemctl vmhgfs pvscsi acpiphp binfmt_misc sha256_generic cryptd aes_x86_64 aes_generic cbc snd_ens1371 gameport dm_crypt snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer iptable_filter lp snd_seq_device ip_tables ppdev snd psmouse soundcore x_tables i2c_piix4 serio_raw snd_page_alloc parport_pc shpchp parport vmci vmxnet btrfs zlib_deflate crc32c libcrc32c floppy e1000 mptspi mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi intel_agp[18118.396536] Pid: 5813, comm: epsxe Not tainted 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu VMware Virtual Platform[18118.396539] RIP: 0010:[]  [] apparmor_bprm_set_creds+0x340/0x430[18118.396543] RSP: 0018:ffff88001b40bdc8  EFLAGS: 00010246[18118.396545] RAX: 00000000fffffffe RBX: ffff88005bd6cd00 RCX: ffff88001b40bdf8[18118.396547] RDX: ffff88003d8f9fe2 RSI: ffffffff81798480 RDI: 0000000000000004[18118.396549] RBP: ffff88001b40be78 R08: ffffffff816e6154 R09: 00000000000000e2[18118.396551] R10: 00000000000000f5 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88002ed43ee0[18118.396553] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88001b40bdd8 R15: ffff88001b40be28[18118.396569] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880001a12000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000[18118.396571] CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b[18118.396573] CR2: 0000000000000068 CR3: 0000000031882000 CR4: 00000000000006e0[18118.396618] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000[18118.396644] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400[18118.396646] Process epsxe (pid: 5813, threadinfo ffff88001b40a000, task ffff880025840000)[18118.396648] Stack:[18118.396649]  0000000000000000 ffff880062c07000 0000000000000000 fffffffe000000d0[18118.396653] <0> ffffffff81723992 0000000000000000 ffff88003d8f9fe2 0000000000000000[18118.396656] <0> 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000100000000 ffff88001b40be28[18118.396660] Call Trace:[18118.396842]  [] ? up_write+0x9/0x10[18118.396996]  [] security_bprm_set_creds+0xe/0x10[18118.397091]  [] prepare_binprm+0xb5/0x110[18118.397165]  [] compat_do_execve+0x28c/0x400[18118.397238]  [] sys32_execve+0x45/0x70[18118.397242]  [] ia32_ptregs_common+0x25/0x50[18118.397243] Code: 0f 1f 00 4c 89 fe 65 48 8b 3c 25 c0 c6 00 00 e8 d7 f6 ff ff 85 c0 89 85 6c ff ff ff 0f 85 15 fe ff ff e9 de fe ff ff 0f 1f 40 00 <41> f6 45 68 08 0f 84 eb fd ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 e9 d7 fd ff ff [18118.397272] RIP  [] apparmor_bprm_set_creds+0x340/0x430[18118.397275]  RSP [18118.397277] CR2: 0000000000000068[18118.397327] ---[ end trace 23e3dcee61151481 ]---

OOF. UPX causes a null pointer dereference in the kernel. Yikes, bug :)

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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:33:29 EDT

Selenia posted :

said by Jason:

Ooof.

Well, lets see if the logs tell us something.

It sounds like it might be an X thing,
Whats the last dozen or so lines of your Xorg log?

if you can get to a "stable" virt. terminal, (Try CTRL+ALT+F2, or F3)

type

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

That might give some info..

-Jason

I think there is some hope for you, but that could evolve into another thread. X is a very common component to crash on someone from upgrades or misconfiguration. However, it only handles the display. It is not the heart of your system. It can usually be repaired from Linux itself from recovery mode.

Anyways, I solved my very last quirk and can now call my main install perfect. epsxe is now running like a champ. For those interested, there were 2 hitches. Karmic doesn't like the upx packed archive for some reason and gave me one of the most frustrating errors I've seen in Linux, just saying killed in terminal after launch with no info. The other is the fact Karmic uses libgtk-2.0, which does produce a verbose error once the first dumb error is solved(took me awhile because "killed" does not give me much to go on).

Solution:
Download libglib1.2 »packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libglib1.2ldbl and libgtk1.2 »packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libgtk1.2 for Jaunty. Stuff them aside in a new directory for now.

Run this in a terminal.
sudo apt-get install upx-ucl
cd /path/to/epsxe-executable
upx -d epsxe

This will unpack the upx executable and stop the annoying "killed" error. You will probably now see verbose errors about libgtk, etc. The first part is thanks to the awesome forums Ubuntu has. Now to the second part(or the rest of it). We are now going to provide libgtk1.2 libraries without making them the system default. So, we're not really installing them perse.

Run in terminal:
cd /path/to/downloaded/debs
dpkg -x libglib1.2ldbl_1.2.10-19build1_i386.deb .
dpkg -x libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1build2_i386.deb .
cd usr/lib
sudo cp * /usr/lib

Now epsxe should run flawlessly. Figured I would show this due to it being related to lib upgrades in Karmic and knowing some people love their emulation. pcsx-df runs flawless with no modification, but epsxe has always been better =)

Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:50:33 EDT

Jason posted :

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

That might give some info..

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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:57:48 EDT

Snakeoil posted : dang.. clean install or dirty?
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:55:02 EDT

timcuth posted : The 9.10 upgrade killed my PC. :( Everything worked fine all the way through the upgrade process. Then, I restarted the PC when instructed. It booted up to the point of a text "login:" message on a screen that was flickering very badly. It would not accept all of my keystrokes, so it was impossible to enter the correct password.

I powered the PC down for a minute, then restarted again. It did the same thing. :huh:

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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:35:59 EDT

Selenia posted : Update: Enabling the EnablePageFlip option made things even faster with composite on. Fast enough for me to retry Adobe's flash on a hunch. It now performs well on 2 systems tested thus far. So my above post along with this option may be the answer to anyone who has Adobe issues. The second option I gave here is known to be unstable with certain cards, so use with caution. You can always recover from recovery mode if necessary. At root shell:
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then remove the offending line.

Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:35:57 EDT

Snakeoil posted : Thk you.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:28:33 EDT

Selenia posted : I finally solved the crappy performance with the open source ati driver with KDE on 9.10 for which updates just kept causing further regression. This was noticable with composite effects enabled. Create the AccelMethod Option under the Device section in xorg.conf and set it to XAA. It seems this version of KDE plays havoc with EXA acceleration(the default) due to it not be able to accelerate many bits in this version of KDE, from what I've read. This may work for you if you've been pleased with the video of full screen games, etc but KDE seemed atrociously slow. Now Karmic finally feels faster than Jaunty on the ATI/KDE machines. Hope this helps others.

Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:07:24 EDT

Snakeoil posted : I thought the same thing too, as well as having to redo wine and world of warcraft.. but it all carried over without a hitch.

I hope it does for you too.. good luck.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:00:10 EDT

Yippz posted :

said by TCub:

said by Yippz:

said by TCub:

Damn! I kinda figured crossfire was the culprit.. that or ATi's lack of open sauce drivers despite claiming they have them... I'll keep using Windows 7 but I plan on adding a second HDD to my m17 and I'll use that to play around with Linux... I'm sure eventually it'll work somehow.

I'm not sure if you mentioned it in previous posts, but have you tried the latest 9.10 ATI drivers > »www.itrunsonlinux.com/news/119-a···iver-910

The link is at the bottom of the changelog. They seem to have made some progress with crossfire... :)

Wow! that's great news! Just what I was looking for!!! I'll have to partition my hdd and install linux sometime this weekend. Big Thanks Yippz!

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Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:39:24 EDT

TCub posted :

said by Yippz:

Wow! that's great news! Just what I was looking for!!! I'll have to partition my hdd and install linux sometime this weekend. Big Thanks Yippz!
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Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:27:22 EDT

timcuth posted :

said by timcuth:

I will do the upgrade, this weekend. After reading all of the above, I think I will opt for the "dirty" upgrade instead of a clean install.

I have started my upgrade. The files are downloading very slowly - from 25 to 80 KB/sec on my 3 mbps connection. I guess the servers are overloaded.

I hope I didn't screw up. After the final update cycle to 9.04 was installed, it disabled my graphics driver, again (it almost always does, after every update - this is what I like least about Ubuntu). I just started the upgrade in low-res graphics mode. Knowing I would probably have to reinstall the video driver after the 9.10 upgrade, I didn't bother reinstalling it after the 9.04 updates.

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Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:41:31 EDT

Yippz posted :

Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:15:02 EDT

TCub posted : Awesome! Thanks a ton for the info! I'll keep my eyes peeled for Linux Crossfire support in the (hopefully near) future!
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Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:57:58 EDT

Selenia posted : Yeah, the crossfire is not Linux friendly at this time. They are working on it. ATI support is generally fine. I am using the notoriously difficult x1950PRO(according to ATI) and the open source radeon or ati package works great 99% of the time. I'd show you a glxinfo, but posting from my phone atm. Only issue I've had is with newer Adobe flash(Adobe's fault, see my link last post) and the fact ffxi still needs some fine tuning lol. Anyways, the performance is better than the old fglrx. The new fglrx is improved but only suppots the same cards as Radeonhd open source driver. Between the drivers, ati is pretty well covered. Some drivers do need tweaks, but c'mon. You're Linux users =)

Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:29:11 EDT

TCub posted : ahh a single card.. It seems my crossfire configuration is causing the issues then.. Thanks for the info! :)
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Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:24:27 EDT

kleeman posted :

said by TCub:

If I can find out what kind of video card(s) kleeman has or if anyone can chime in as to whether or not Linux support HD3870's in crossfire, you'd make me happy. :-)

I have a Thinkpad T60 which runs ATI Radeon Mobility X1400
so it is an old card.
I am using the radeon driver (package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon). In /etc/X11/xorg.conf it specifies the acceleration method as XAA and acceleration is working well. I am getting 10,000 frames in 5 secs using (the discredited) glxgears which is a lot higher than before.
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Re: updated to 9.10

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:21:07 EDT

TCub posted : Damn! I kinda figured crossfire was the culprit.. that or ATi's lack of open sauce drivers despite claiming they have them... I'll keep using Windows 7 but I plan on adding a second HDD to my m17 and I'll use that to play around with Linux... I'm sure eventually it'll work somehow.
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