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Wow, Dougiemats awesome desk!

I got some bad news...
When trying to install Beryl everything got screwed up. Now I can't get into Ubuntu cause I only come to a blue/gray screen saying that there's "No GLX visuals available" or "No Screens Found". I've been at the Ubuntuforums, but no luck. Does this mean that I have to re-install Ubuntu to get it working again?

Cheers!

PS. I've now mentally converted to Ubuntu! Windows feels so slow and old! :D
 
zoxxy
Wow, Dougiemats awesome desk!

I got some bad news...
When trying to install Beryl everything got screwed up. Now I can't get into Ubuntu cause I only come to a blue/gray screen saying that there's "No GLX visuals available" or "No Screens Found". I've been at the Ubuntuforums, but no luck. Does this mean that I have to re-install Ubuntu to get it working again?

Cheers!

PS. I've now mentally converted to Ubuntu! Windows feels so slow and old! :D
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:scared:

Sounds like a driver issue. What graphics card do you have? What method did you use to install Beryl?

Try this maybe? (link)
 
dougiemeats
:scared:

Sounds like a driver issue. What graphics card do you have? What method did you use to install Beryl?

Try this maybe? (link)
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I got a Nvidia GeForce 6200GT with the recommended "Nvidia"-driver. I used this method but I didn't start with a fresh install. Should I try it with AIXGL?

I'll try your link.

Edit: No succes :(
 
Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

If you have Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), then I think I know the problem. Edgy already has AiGLX installed by default. I don't know the technical details of the two, but they might be conflicting with one another. You might need to remove Xgl.

Also, try the official how-to's instead.

Good luck! 👍

Edit: I forgot that you can't even log in. Can you at least Ctrl-Alt-F1 to bring up the terminal? (Alt-F7 to go back)
 
I am on Dapper. I've read through alot of threads, all of them saying that I should reconfigure xorg.conf, but I've tried it atleast 50 times now without success. :indiff:

I can use the terminal, nano, dpkg, and so on, but everything is text on black,DOS-style. Win 95, anyone? :lol:

Edit: I was at the official How-To just before I posted this, trying to sort my Xorg.conf out, but still no success.
 
I guess my only advice now it to remove Xgl and Beryl altogether, then try to install Beryl and AiGLX. This is straight from the link I gave, but I changed a few things since you don't have a GUI

At the terminal, edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom:

Code: 
sudo nano /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom

Remove these lines (it should be near the bottom of the file); the on-screen intructions should tell you how to do so:

Code: 
[servers]
0=Xgl

[server-Xgl]
name=Xgl server
command=/usr/bin/Xgl :0 -fullscreen -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo -kb
flexible=true

Log out:

Code: 
logout

Log back in with your username and password

Remove Xgl and Beryl:

Code: 
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xgl compiz-gnome emerald emerald-themes beryl beryl-manager

Then try to reconfigure your X again.
 
:D

By the way, what desklet is that in the pic you posted up there? It would be very useful to me with the tasks showing directly on the calender.


Cheers
 
WeeklyCalendar 0.31 by Joe Sapp

It's very useful indeed. I've tried notes, regular text files for to-do lists, and using the Calendar app, but nothing beats having it right on the desktop. It comes with the GDesklets package, I believe.

👍
 
I learned something new today!

Alright, so Sage and Event suggested that I use a certain OS X application called Quicksilver a while back, after finding out that I've been using Spotlight as my application launcher. So I took their advice, and ever since I installed Quicksilver, I've been hooked. Basically, the application launcher is two key presses away, and the results are instant.

I've always thought, "Hey, that'd be nice to have in Ubuntu..." but I just found out that pressing Alt-F2 brings up an nice application launcher that behaves similarly to Quicksilver. I just type the first few letters of the app, and there it is.

I know no one really cares and/or Linux users are probably laughing because they have known this for the longest time (What can I say? I'm a slow learner), but I thought I'd share it anways. :) For the record, I have now found an alternative to Exposé and Quicksilver, and I couldn't be happier. Cheers to Ubuntu!



That's it for this week's episode of Dougiemeats' Ubuntu Adventures. Next week, dougiemeats uses sudo to gain root privileges. Will he accidentally delete his entire home directory? Stay tuned to find out.... *Cue music*
 
:lol: I just learned about that too. I love Linux! :D

I'm also going to try to move over my music from my windows partition to my Ubuntu-partition. Also, I'm gonna expand the Ubuntu partition, cause it's only 6gb right now. :rolleyes:

Wish me luck! :D
 
I screwed up my firewall and wireless connection. I removed Firestarter but accidentally left all ports blocked, and now I can't install it again cause I got no internet connection. Also, as icing on the cake, I get no signal from my wireless router. At least I know what I'll do tomorrow. :rolleyes:
 
I've just set up my computer for dual booting with Ubuntu Edgy Eft. It was an extremely easy install, but I did have a few headaches caused by network problems. Once I could actually connect to sites (as opposed to just being able to ping them) I could not connect to several sites (Google, Yahoo!). I couldn't find an answer to that but after two days of rebooting and trying it fixed itself today somehow. How often does Windows fix itself? :lol:

Installing the nVidia driver sure was a blast. I was using the filename that you see in Windows as I went through the walkthrough so it took me about an hour to get that worked out. It shouldn't have taken over ten minutes.

Overall, I'm really happy with it. I hate having to fix the problems and manually install stuff, but I'm kind of glad that it takes some effort to do things. You get to learn as you go with Linux. Next step is to mess with wine. I do wish that I could write to NTFS partitions so I could store things on my external drive and 200GB storage partition.


One question - Does anybody know how to edit what my middle mouse button does? I liked it in Windows when it would let you scroll by moving the mouse when you click.
 
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One question - Does anybody know how to edit what my middle mouse button does? I liked it in Windows when it would let you scroll by moving the mouse when you click.
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For Firefox:

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > "Use autoscrolling"

:)
 
I made the switch!

...from Ubuntu 6.10 to openSUSE 10.2. I was finally comfortable enough with Ubuntu and I wanted to learn something new. I haven't played with it much, but expect a comparison between openSUSE and Ubuntu later. Here's some screenshots of my current desktop:




I've made it look very Windows-like, but I like this setup. ;)
 
Nice Doug! How is that 3D desktop working?

I also made the (a) switch!

Since my machine ain't all that, I switched from Gnome to Fluxbox. :D Startup time from login until every program loaded, GAIM logged in etc is 2 seconds! :D

screenshot.jpg
 
Even after delving through Ubuntu forums, I still don't understand most of the commands. Took me an hour to figure out spaces needed in the command to update from 6.06 to 6.10.

I still can't get 6.10 to work as a fresh install...
 
zoxxy
Nice Doug! How is that 3D desktop working?
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Not bad. One cool thing about openSUSE is that is comes with Xgl and Compiz. As long as your graphics card is supported (I'm on integrated graphics ;)), then it's all a matter of a few clicks and you've got wobbly windows, desktop cubes, and much more.

However, I find Beryl/AiGLX to be smoother than Compiz/Xgl. It might depend on the graphics card since some people have reported that Compiz is smoother for them.

I'll have a more in-depth review of my experience with openSUSE later.

I also made the (a) switch!
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Nice 👍 Don't you love Linux? You can have a full-blown bloated 3D desktop with all the cool effects, or you can have one small enough to run from a flash drive. I was actually thinking about installing Fluxbox on my older machine, but instead, I chose Xubuntu.

GT4_Rule
What's going on?
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Multiple desktops. Although most desktop environments have multiple desktops by default, Beryl and Compiz add a little flavor to them. Since I'm a 3D desktop whore, I can tell you more about Beryl, wobbly windows, snow, rain, and fire :mischievous: if you're interested.

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Even after delving through Ubuntu forums, I still don't understand most of the commands. Took me an hour to figure out spaces needed in the command to update from 6.06 to 6.10.

I still can't get 6.10 to work as a fresh install...
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Are you trying to upgrade to Edgy via apt-get? I think people had many problems with it. You can try this method:

1. Press Alt+F2
2. Enter
Code: 
gksu "update-manager -c"

As long as you've got a working connection, then it should tell you about Edgy and offer to upgrade.
 
I had to do it with spaces before and after update-manager -c

That's how I did it and it worked perfect. I downloaded the ISO and even the Alternate, both burnt at 1X as a bootable image.

Oh well. I have 4.5mB cable so it's ok.


I have a question. When I start up, I have a ton of kernels and then Windows XP.

There's 2 kernels and their respective recovery modes. Neither one will boot into Ubuntu. The 3rd one does, but it's at the bottom. I'm sure it has to do with the grub.conf but can anyone explain to me how to do it? Thanks in advance. I do love the Linux!

EDIT: Ok, I'm in Linux. I logged in as root and changed the xorg.conf so my FF would quit crashing. Me, being a dumbass, installed the plugin through FF, so I used apt get and all is well now. I'm just browsing Ubuntu Forums for the answer. If anyone knows, please help. Thanks!
 
Doug, I gotta ask you. How do you get that windows like pop up with launchers and a searchbar?

Btw, I've gone back to Gnome for a while, gonna make some more adjustments to Fluxie before I use it full time cause I miss a couple of thing, like the alt+F2 Run window. Plus it looks kinda nice. :D The good thing is that I can switch between them whenever I want in a couple of seconds. 👍

PS. I haven't used Windows for over a month now! :D

Edit: If anyone is interested in the USB-memory Linux, check here.
 
zoxxy
Doug, I gotta ask you. How do you get that windows like pop up with launchers and a searchbar?
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It's called GNOME Main Menu (formerly 'Slab Menu'). It was developed by Novell for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, and it's no surprise that the feature made it into Novell's community-based openSUSE. The integrated search bar is Beagle Search.

Although these are the defaults for SLED 10 and openSUSE 10.2, they are available in Ubuntu as well. As long as you have the proper repositories enabled (multiverse and universe), you can install them through Synaptic. The packages needed for the installation are:

Code: 
beagle
gnome-main-menu

To enable beagle, you must type

Code: 
beagled

at the terminal.

As a warning, Beagle can be very resource-hungry when it is agressively indexing your files. For the record, I have now switched back to the "Applications Places System" menu and have gotten rid of Beagle, since that menu system seems faster to me and Beagle isn't ready yet IMO. Hopefully, they will be improved upon, since they have potential to be great features.
 
Anyone here on Feisty?

I like it. I guess I got a bad ISO because I got the bug where update manager crashes. Tried through terminal using sudo apt-get update, corrupted the OS.

I will be running Windows Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu 6.10 dual boot on my new computer.
 
zoxxy
I think I'll stay with the regular Menu bar, cause I really need to acces the system settings. :D
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You can still access it by clicking 'Control Center'. ;)

But yeah, I'm sticking with the Menu bar too. I find it better organized and it takes less clicks to get somewhere.
 
I probably won't install Feisty until it nears completion. Right now, I've got a pretty good setup with Edgy that should keep me satisfied until Feisty's April release.

Although I'm still trying to decide if I should install openSUSE again...
 
Oops. I thought Feisty was the last one released. I meant Edgy. ;):lol: I don't like trying beta OS's. Some final versions of OS's have enough bugs. ;)
 

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