The Lucid Lynx Thread

[Logicklz]

It's not this easy, if you're running an ATI or nVidia graphics card with proprietary drivers.

I am not a Linux guru. This is the way i fixed my ugly bootsplash with my nVidia card...

 

[sn3rd]

I am not a Linux guru. This is the way i fixed my ugly bootsplash with my nVidia card...

Fair enough. If you're using the (default) open-sauce driver, your method should work. For those who use the proprietary driver, uvesa can be used.

Either way, on Lucid, using uvesa lets plymouth start earlier, replacing the black screen with blinking cursor in the top left of the screen.

 

[hawker]

Fair enough. If you're using the (default) open-sauce driver, your method should work. For those who use the proprietary driver, uvesa can be used.

Either way, on Lucid, using uvesa let's plymouth start earlier, replacing the black screen with blinking cursor in the top left of the screen.

/me goes to investigate this uvesa stuffs.

 

[kingrob]

And can someone tell me how to make Google Chrome look polished in Ubuntu?

 

[BigAl-sa]

startup manager does not work too lekker in kubuntu lucid. in fact, it doesn't seem to do anything...

@sn3rd & hawker: I found a couple of links on uvesa last nite. I hope I bookmarked them...

 

[hawker]

startup manager does not work too lekker in kubuntu lucid. in fact, it doesn't seem to do anything...

@sn3rd & hawker: I found a couple of links on uvesa last nite. I hope I bookmarked them...

Thanks man, would appreciate it if you could post some of them here (if you manage to find them.)

 

[fskmh]

For anyone else that tests distros in VirtualBox, I just ran into an issue with VirtualBox 3.1.6 and Ubuntu 10.04.

Installed Ubuntu-10.04 64 bit and did some updates. Everything seemed fine, so I installed the VirtualBox guest additions, rebooted and it started in low-res mode :-/.
Tried this fix:
http://maxolasersquad.blogspot.com/2010/03/ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx-alpha-in.html
and that broke the seamless mouse pointer :-/.
Will have to upgrade to VirtualBox 3.1.8 and reinstall guest additions from the console.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Thanks man, would appreciate it if you could post some of them here (if you manage to find them.)

Here's one, haven't had a chance to try it yet though.

For those running Kubuntu (actually KDE 4.4.x), you may want to switch off nepomuk. It hogs the CPU, especially during boot up and just after login. I really can't find any advantage to using nepomuk, so have no idea why it happens to be integrated into KDE. I'll update this post later with instructions as to how to switch it off (I'm on Ubuntu at the mo).

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Still having problems where init services do not start at boot time. Funny this happens when I do a reboot and not a cold start.

Also my Neotel device is not happy with Lucid but then again I don't care. Going to toss the damn doorstop in the next few days and get proper internet. Will also no longer contribute towards Neotel threads on Linux support.

 

[blackguyza]

I can do the updates on my newly installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx but I can't get Firefox to connect to the internet.

Please help.

 

[MickZA]

Check that file>work offline isn't ticked.

 

[blackguyza]

Check that file>work offline isn't ticked.

Will do

 

[blackguyza]

No, file > work offline is not ticked.

 

[MickZA]

Try ping google.co.za - if this fails check your dns server setting.

 

[blackguyza]

ping works and don't stop sending and receiving packets.

Will post the output.

 

[blackguyza]

 mpho@mpho-desktop:~$ ping www.google.co.za
PING www.l.google.com (209.85.229.147) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=378 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=379 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=398 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=386 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=5 ttl=48 time=394 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=6 ttl=48 time=383 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=7 ttl=48 time=392 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=8 ttl=48 time=371 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=9 ttl=48 time=392 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=10 ttl=48 time=399 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=11 ttl=48 time=388 ms
64 bytes from www.google.co.za (209.85.229.147): icmp_seq=12 ttl=48 time=398 ms

...

 

[MickZA]

Does http://209.85.229.147/ get you to google on the problem system?

 

[blackguyza]

Does http://209.85.229.147/ get you to google on the problem system?

Interestingly, yes! I tried mybroadband.co.za ip but it did not work.

 

[MickZA]

Try ping mybroadband.co.za if it doesn't resolve to an ip it must be dns server related.

 

[blackguyza]

It did resolve to an IP. The ip just doesn't take me to mybroadband.co.za website. It hangs.