I was recently thinking about 'taking the plunge' into the Linux world and hopping on the Feisty bandwagon. I guess i'm an intermediate PC user (but with a crappy Dell lol) and have been wanting to check out Linux. Anyway, how is the driver support for Ubuntu now? I can't stand reformatting as it is because my damn Ethernet controller drivers go misssing and it's a hassle having a pc without the internet for a while . Does Intel make compatible drivers for Linux systems? I know ATi does for video stuff. Do most windows drivers work for Linux or are there specialized Linux ones only?
Only problem I would foresee would be not being able to use any MTP portable devices.
Intel has Linux drivers that are opensource on all their hardware. If it's an Intel _anything_, it has about a 99% chance of being supported out of the box.
As for your ATI card, yes there are both open-source and closed-source drivers. General rule of thumb if it's anything older than a Radeon 9500, to use the open-source drivers. Otherwise ATI's drivers will work for you.
As for the MTP player, you can use it. It takes a little work, but I've done it (being the proud owner of a Creative Zen V).
I was recently thinking about 'taking the plunge' into the Linux world and hopping on the Feisty bandwagon. I guess i'm an intermediate PC user (but with a crappy Dell lol) and have been wanting to check out Linux. Anyway, how is the driver support for Ubuntu now? I can't stand reformatting as it is because my damn Ethernet controller drivers go misssing and it's a hassle having a pc without the internet for a while . Does Intel make compatible drivers for Linux systems? I know ATi does for video stuff. Do most windows drivers work for Linux or are there specialized Linux ones only?
Only problem I would foresee would be not being able to use any MTP portable devices.
Just dual boot instead of formatting the entire hard drive. That way if Ubuntu doesn't work properly with your hardware you can just reload the livedisc and blow away the Ubuntu partition and expand the windows partition again.
Most Windows drivers don't work (or don't work well) on GNU/Linux but it's generally not necessary- various opensource teams (such as noveau) make drivers for stuff, occasionally the companies that make the hardware do also.
The biggest issue driver-wise in free software is wireless internet on laptops, which is getting better by leaps and bounds.
If you've got an older dell you're probably better off not using Compiz though.
I downloaded the .iso image file for the Ubuntu Live CD, and....I didn't get an ISO file...Instead I got a whole lot of folders and files:
What gives?
Downloaded that from the Ubuntu website.
Really feeling like a newb now lol
I downloaded the .iso image file for the Ubuntu Live CD, and....I didn't get an ISO file...Instead I got a whole lot of folders and files:
What gives?
Downloaded that from the Ubuntu website.
Really feeling like a newb now lol
What you're seeing are the contents of the ISO. Turn on "show file extensions" and see if the folder now says "ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso", and if so burn the image to a CD.
If not you may have to muck with how you download it or turn it into an iso yourself, but that's not likely.
I managed to make a variant of that mistake in the past and burn the contents of the ISO to a CD and force myself to have to re-burn. It's not a big deal.
ChocoCid hit it spot on. The Ubuntu website also gives a pretty detailed guide of how to burn the iso image onto a CD.
A few questions about Ubuntu:
1. How do I make the middle mouse button click work? I can use it to scroll up and down normally, but when I click it I don't get the four directional arrow that I'm used to.
2. Do I have to mount my Windows drive every time I start up Ubuntu?
3. How do I get uTorrent to work under Wine?
4. Why are multiple desktops disabled when I turn on Compiz?
1. How do I make the middle mouse button click work? I can use it to scroll up and down normally, but when I click it I don't get the four directional arrow that I'm used to.
It's most likely a mouse setting in GNOME. Look in Settings > Preferences > Mouse.
2. Do I have to mount my Windows drive every time I start up Ubuntu?
By editing the fstab, you can set it so it automatically gets mounted.
3. How do I get uTorrent to work under Wine?
Install wine. Download the installer for uTorrent from the uTorrent site. Run the installer via wine.
Done.
4. Why are multiple desktops disabled when I turn on Compiz?
Compiz differs between workspaces and desktops, unlike Metacity.
Think of it like this:
Workspaces == sides per cube
Desktops == number of cubes
ChocoCid hit it spot on. The Ubuntu website also gives a pretty detailed guide of how to burn the iso image onto a CD.
A few questions about Ubuntu:
1. How do I make the middle mouse button click work? I can use it to scroll up and down normally, but when I click it I don't get the four directional arrow that I'm used to.
If you mean in firefox, there's a setting in about:config.
If middlemouse.scrollbarPosition is set to false, turn that to "true" and see if that takes care of it. If not, change it back and find something else.
What you probably don't realize is that middle-click is by default Paste in Xorg- highlight some text and open gedit/kate/whatever and middle click there.
2. Do I have to mount my Windows drive every time I start up Ubuntu?
Er... it has to be mounted in order for you to do anything with it. If you mean mount it manually, no, there's a way to automate it.
wiki.ubuntu.com has good instructions on doing so. Search for "ntfs".
3. How do I get uTorrent to work under Wine?
winehq.org has good info on Wine stuff, and the Ubuntu wiki may as well.
4. Why are multiple desktops disabled when I turn on Compiz?
Short answer: someone ****ed up
Solution:
alt-f2 and type in "gconf-editor" without quotes.
Navigate the tree as such:
apps
compiz
general
screen0
options
Now you'll see "hsize" and "number of desktops" among others.
One of them should be a 1 and the other should be a 4. I don't remember which and right now they're both set on 1 on my machine for some reason, even though they shouldn't be.
Note their current values, change them to 1 and 4, then restart X. (Control-Alt-Backspace)
That should fix it. If not, try it the other way. If that doesn't work, put it back where it was to start with and wait on someone else to give you a solution.
for some reason, my PC has problems with playing some video's.
The problem is that I don't have colours. The video is black/white, I see some green stripes above, and red colours moved to the right. No problems with sound.
I only have this problem with some AVI files, but not all of them.
I think it has to do something with a codec, but I can't find what the problem is.
Maybe there is someone here who had the same problem and has a solution now.
Merged with the Tech Support Thread, where (hopefully) you'll still be able to get some great help.
Not knowing what operating system you're on, I can only suggest that you try out VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
I use the Videora iPod Converter to convert my movie types that my iPod refuses to play to the required MP4 format. It's converted all file types thus far with no problem, but I'm going to be downloading a ogg about 5 GB in size and want to know if my converter will convert it without a problem, because a friend said I might have a problem.
Sorry for the misleading name. =D
Anyone know if the Videora iPod converter can convert Ogg's without any problem for use on an iPod?
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Googling is inconclusive as to whether Videora can convert OGG (i'm assuming it's Ogg Vorbis/Theora) to MP4. If it doesn't, go here and search for "ogg mp4" and pick one for whatever OS you're using. http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=119
M'kay. I'm going to go ahead and download it, then attempt to convert all of it and hopefully it'll work; if not, I'll download that program and try it. Thanks a bunch!
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Intel has Linux drivers that are opensource on all their hardware. If it's an Intel _anything_, it has about a 99% chance of being supported out of the box.
As for your ATI card, yes there are both open-source and closed-source drivers. General rule of thumb if it's anything older than a Radeon 9500, to use the open-source drivers. Otherwise ATI's drivers will work for you.
As for the MTP player, you can use it. It takes a little work, but I've done it (being the proud owner of a Creative Zen V).
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Ubuntu Linux
Just dual boot instead of formatting the entire hard drive. That way if Ubuntu doesn't work properly with your hardware you can just reload the livedisc and blow away the Ubuntu partition and expand the windows partition again.
Most Windows drivers don't work (or don't work well) on GNU/Linux but it's generally not necessary- various opensource teams (such as noveau) make drivers for stuff, occasionally the companies that make the hardware do also.
The biggest issue driver-wise in free software is wireless internet on laptops, which is getting better by leaps and bounds.
If you've got an older dell you're probably better off not using Compiz though.
What gives?
Downloaded that from the Ubuntu website.
Really feeling like a newb now lol
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What you're seeing are the contents of the ISO. Turn on "show file extensions" and see if the folder now says "ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso", and if so burn the image to a CD.
If not you may have to muck with how you download it or turn it into an iso yourself, but that's not likely.
I managed to make a variant of that mistake in the past and burn the contents of the ISO to a CD and force myself to have to re-burn. It's not a big deal.
A few questions about Ubuntu:
1. How do I make the middle mouse button click work? I can use it to scroll up and down normally, but when I click it I don't get the four directional arrow that I'm used to.
2. Do I have to mount my Windows drive every time I start up Ubuntu?
3. How do I get uTorrent to work under Wine?
4. Why are multiple desktops disabled when I turn on Compiz?
It's most likely a mouse setting in GNOME. Look in Settings > Preferences > Mouse.
By editing the fstab, you can set it so it automatically gets mounted.
Install wine. Download the installer for uTorrent from the uTorrent site. Run the installer via wine.
Done.
Compiz differs between workspaces and desktops, unlike Metacity.
Think of it like this:
Workspaces == sides per cube
Desktops == number of cubes
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Ubuntu Linux
If you mean in firefox, there's a setting in about:config.
If middlemouse.scrollbarPosition is set to false, turn that to "true" and see if that takes care of it. If not, change it back and find something else.
What you probably don't realize is that middle-click is by default Paste in Xorg- highlight some text and open gedit/kate/whatever and middle click there.
Er... it has to be mounted in order for you to do anything with it. If you mean mount it manually, no, there's a way to automate it.
wiki.ubuntu.com has good instructions on doing so. Search for "ntfs".
winehq.org has good info on Wine stuff, and the Ubuntu wiki may as well.
Short answer: someone ****ed up
Solution:
alt-f2 and type in "gconf-editor" without quotes.
Navigate the tree as such:
apps
compiz
general
screen0
options
Now you'll see "hsize" and "number of desktops" among others.
One of them should be a 1 and the other should be a 4. I don't remember which and right now they're both set on 1 on my machine for some reason, even though they shouldn't be.
Note their current values, change them to 1 and 4, then restart X. (Control-Alt-Backspace)
That should fix it. If not, try it the other way. If that doesn't work, put it back where it was to start with and wait on someone else to give you a solution.
number_of_desktops == desktops
The former should be 4, and the latter 1, unless you're using a multi-head setup (aka more than one monitor).
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Ubuntu Linux
Not knowing what operating system you're on, I can only suggest that you try out VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Sorry for the misleading name. =D
Anyone know if the Videora iPod converter can convert Ogg's without any problem for use on an iPod?
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Googling is inconclusive as to whether Videora can convert OGG (i'm assuming it's Ogg Vorbis/Theora) to MP4. If it doesn't, go here and search for "ogg mp4" and pick one for whatever OS you're using.
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=119
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