Ubuntu 10.10

pickarooney

I decided to give Maverick a lash on thye craptop for a laugh last night. Update, reboot... no working gfx drivers. Back to familiar territory with this release by the looks of things. Everything boots fine if I change from the proprietary nvidia drivers to nv in xorg.conf but as soon as I enable nvidia's drivers again it all goes to hell in a handbasket. Now is as good a time as any to try Mint Debian I think.

Mathiasb

pickarooney wrote: »

I decided to give Maverick a lash on thye craptop for a laugh last night. Update, reboot... no working gfx drivers. Back to familiar territory with this release by the looks of things. Everything boots fine if I change from the proprietary nvidia drivers to nv in xorg.conf but as soon as I enable nvidia's drivers again it all goes to hell in a handbasket. Now is as good a time as any to try Mint Debian I think.

Ouch, a gfx driver causes distro hopping?

Jagera

I would like to meet this laptop of yours.

pickarooney

Mathiasb wrote: »

Ouch, a gfx driver causes distro hopping?

It's more or less a test machine. I've changed distros for less. That said, 5 of the last 7 ubuntu releases have broken both video and audio on that machine so its track record is fairly abysmal.

DeepBlue

DeepBlue wrote: »

I'm on Xubuntu 10.04 LTS atm and wondering if it's worth upgrading to Xubuntu 10.10.
Any opinions or pointers on where I could find info on whether the upgrade is worthwhile?

To answer my own question I upgraded yesterday but I think I'll be reverting to 10.04.
10.10 is prettier but seems to be buggier and not as stable. The seriously annoying bug where the mouse and keyboard become unresponsive has returned and overall the system is slower than 10.04.
Pretty disappointing.

Tar.Aldarion

How do you set a specific resolution to install as default? only 9.10 ubuntu works on my laptop as there is some resolution problem with the others, 9.10 corrects to another resolution automatically. It's wither that or the others have drivers problems

pickarooney

I tried mint julia on the craptop as i heard it was supposed to be better with sound and video out of the box but it also didn4t know how to deal with my sound card. There's a simple, well known modprobe fix for via sound cards that has been around for years and would take all of 2 seconds to include in a release yet nobody is bothered to add it for some reason.

aquascrotum

Just my 2-cents worth. I updated a pretty crap laptop from Lucid to Mav and my own PC from Karmic to Maverick and am very happy to date. Very slick look and stable. Boot times arent as hot as advertised but I'm putting that down to neither install being a "clean" install.

I also discovered Ubuntu Tweak which allows you to select non-standard PPAs and have updated Firefox, Chrome, Banshee etc to Team PPAs in order to get the latest versions. The whole lot (as a package) is behaving very well and is definitely an improvement imo.

Mathiasb

pickarooney wrote: »

I tried mint julia on the craptop as i heard it was supposed to be better with sound and video out of the box but it also didn4t know how to deal with my sound card. There's a simple, well known modprobe fix for via sound cards that has been around for years and would take all of 2 seconds to include in a release yet nobody is bothered to add it for some reason.

Maybe because there is no bug report for it? (I haven't searched for one.)
Otherwise if you do find the bug report, at least you'll hopefully get some kind of indication as to why it's not (yet) included, or something.

infoTurtle

I like 10.10, its better than the last 2 but not better than jaunty, it's the first one I used and still my fav

Stuxnet

aquascrotum wrote: »

I also discovered Ubuntu Tweak

UT is great,

evercloserunion

Can anyone tell me, what's normal RAM usage on an idle Maverick machine, and how much HD space does the install take up?

Mathiasb

evercloserunion wrote: »

Can anyone tell me, what's normal RAM usage on an idle Maverick machine, and how much HD space does the install take up?

I think the initial HD usage is around 2-2.5GB. no idea about idle RAM usage, but around 300MB perhaps?

Stuxnet

i did a fresh install of latest mint (maverick) very recently, according to my conky my install files are taking up 4.12 gigs of space, but i have allowed for a 9 gig / partition, so thats more then enough, and right now running 825 mb of ram

figures will be slightly higher then a bog standard maverick installation ! but should give you an idea

conky: http://i52.tinypic.com/2r3bacw.png