8.04 bug thread

[duanester]

how is the new distro working out, any problems ?

 

tell us about the good' the bad" and the ugly !

 

 

i am going to give the 64bit version a go, its dl'ing rite now ..........

[bg1256]

I did a fresh install, so naturally, I downloaded the Live CD.

 

However, I ran into some pretty serious issues, and here is the workaround I found:

 

The problem was with my nvidia card. For some reason, the Live CD would not boot successfully if BIOS was set to use my nvidia card as default output. The result of doing so was a screen full of distored, vertical lines.

 

So, it suddenly dawned on me to switch to onboard video, and things worked out just fine.

 

I haven't played too much with anything yet, but what I have seen is impressive. Firefox 3 is nice, although not all my extensions work yet.

 

I still wish more programs came on the install CD, but I suppose that's the limitation of the medium. I could have gone with the DVD, but I was impatient and wanted a faster download.

 

Anyone know of a good download manager?

[tito]

The FF3 beta has all of Mozillas most recent changes integrated. If they find any major or security bugs, unlikely, then they will be released too.

[Bruce]

tell us about the good' the bad" and the ugly !

 

 

The Good, it is Linux

 

The Bad, it is ubuntu

 

The Ugly, the default is the Ugly foot

[duanester]

i have to say its more secure than 7.10, thats all i have for now

 

 

 

hey bruce i agree, the default gnome is fugly, thank goodness for themes

[Intratech]

I'm installing. Will let you know if anything smells fishy with this bird.

[brandon]

When I installed the restricted extras, then installed the Java 6 JRE via Synaptic, I find that Java can not be detected. It's not a bug, but it is something of note.

[Intratech]

It drains battery faster than Vista and OpenSUSE 10.3. I only get about 2 hours in Ubuntu 8.04 but Vista gives me 3 hours and 40 minutes and OpenSUSE 10.3 gives 3 hours and 10 minutes. Any suggestions to fix that "bug"?

[duanester]

intra, any troubles with lcd brightness, there was a bug i believe !

 

 

they may have fixed it but in the process caused battery drain.

[dimwit]

There is an article for power saving here. (last two words of article are the link).

http://www.phoronix.com/

[duanester]

 

 

im not sure if its a bug, every time i start an app i get that prompt on the panel

[duanester]

a major enhancement, when you hover your mouse pointer over music files they play with no need of any gui

[Bruce]

a major enhancement, when you hover your mouse pointer over music files they play with no need of any gui

 

That has been a feature of KDE for several years now. It used to be the default but too many people found it annoying, so they made the preview an option that had to be turned on.

[duanester]

has anyone tried to grab an image off a web site and drag it ?

 

ok, what next, i can drag it around but what can we do with them

[Bruce]

What would you like to do with them?

[duanester]

i was asking because its new to me, i can only guess that the images can be dropped into another application ?

[duanester]

 

 

 

is that wrapper for emulation?

[brandon]

I just found a rather HUGE flaw with either the AMD drivers, Ubuntu itself, Java, or something I did.

 

When I try to copy the songs off of my iPod to a folder, I select them all, direct ipodcopy to a folder to save the songs to, but it doesn't do anything, even though it's showing the spinning wheel. When I close the program, and then click on the red button in the corner to try and reboot, I can no long open any programs, folders, or anything, and I have to ctrl + alt + backspace to even be able to use Ubuntu again.

 

Plus, mplayer's gui gets corrupted when you double click on it twice in a row. I'm not sure if this is a result of compiz, AMD's drivers or mplayer itself, but it definitely is a flaw.

Edited May 4, 2008 by brandon

[duanester]

if anyone gets "running http cache cleaner" on the task bar it is in fact a bug !

 

i have been tracking it for a wile and no fixes YET https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdelibs/+bug/60315

[danielos]

Runs well on my desktop.

Runs good on the laptop too.. except it has the same strange suspend issues every once in a while like it did with hardy heron.

[psicon]

i had suspend problems on my laptop, i resolved them by disabling Vsync on my nvidia-settings.

[caintry_boy]

Now running 8.04 Hardy on one machine. I'd like to run [email protected] on it, any "folders" here???

Where do I start after I open Terminal?

 

 

[psicon]

here ya go:

 

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/LinConsoleInstall

[terry1966]

if i remember right caintry all i do is down load(save file) http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download the Linux (x86-64 bit, only) SMP client console to my desktop haven't got a dual proc but it runs fine anyway.

 

edit:- for correct instructions.. just had to install so know this works..

 

then move the file into a folder called folding in my home folder, right click on it, click extract here.

 

then in a terminal

 

cd ~/folding(return)

 

./fah6(return)

 

then just minimise the terminal and let it run.

 

if you want to swith off your pc always ctrl c the terminal to stop it before switching off otherwise when it starts back up it won't use sse i think.

 

if you forget to stop it no probs, just start it, let it run a min then stop and start it again and it uses the sse

 

Hope i got that right.

 

Edited May 20, 2008 by terry1966

[caintry_boy]

Thanks guys! I got it "by hook and by crook". Now to learn Ubuntu!