Sunday, April 27, 2008
Ubuntu 8.04
It is here. I just could not wait to install it, having to redo everything on my two computers. Just to get that one new desktop with a bird on it. I did it. It was great. Then I saw that not much had changed that you could see, but some has changed that you could not see. It boots fast, I think. It might run better. It does have some new type of wireless support that I don't need. I hear it hooks up to small devices better, like mp3 players. I need to check out the KVM stuff to see what the is word on that. After a first look I don't see that much has changed. I am hoping that as I go along I will find most things that are nice. The many thing it does for me is let me get the latest version of all the software I like. In the end Ubuntu is a great OS and it just getting better over time. One of my thought is they did not change to must this time because is LTS. I have read that 8.10 will have some major changes. I am not going to complain because it is free and it so far it has freed me from supporting MS.
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...Yeah. You know what I like about 8.04? The fact that I can't use the restricted nVidia drivers for my nVidia 6800 and Westinghouse 1920x1080 monitor setup, without having it do nothing but 640x480 resolution.
It's hard to use their graphical configurators when you can't see the entire configuration window, and Gnome provides NO HELP at all with that problem. Actually, they make it worse.
In any case, I want my UT2004, and they do not make it easy.
It will only make it taste sweeter when you get it ;). I have in the past found it really just kills the taste. hmmmm
To those on the outside that might have looked at this blog post, Paul and I (mostly Paul) did happen to eventually get everything figured out.
The trick was that we had to use the nvidia-glx drivers, instead of the nvidia-glx-new drivers.
To get the nvidia-glx drivers working with compiz-fusion, use this command:
sudo nvidia-xconfig --allow-glx-with-composite --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite
Give that a go, and everything should be good, I should hope.
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