Comments on: Experiences Since Installing Ubuntu 8.04 Beta

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:05:23 +0000

I just installed 8.08b through my USB port (pendrivelinux.com, my heart) onto my 2r old gateway notebook. I’ve always had problems with linux and my 200M ATI driver but with this install everything worked perfectly, 3d effects worked immediately after installing the restricted driver. my wireless isnt working yet, but bcm4318 has issues anyway. this is defininately the best “immediate use” distro yet. can’t wait till the official LTS.

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:37:12 +0000

I’ve had a few more problems with it – though I did the alternate install and was setting up a 4x500GB RAID5.

The server is up and is functional – though now updates are causing me grief.

There have been quite a few reviews that say 8.04 Beta is ready for general use, so hopefully after I overcome my initial problems it’ll be smooth sailing.

By: BadServo

BadServo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:44:26 +0000

Tom:
Yeah, adjusting the color balance is ineffectual. After poking around on Launchpad I’ve determined it’s a preexisting bug in the proprietary drivers. All video players are affected. Disabling the xv in teh gstreamer properties fixes it for Totem, but VLC, etc continue to be affected. Oddly enough, video thumbnails appear to be rendered correctly. The version of the 2D nv driver in Hardy seems a bit buggy as well causing some rendering issues in some apps.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:59:39 +0000

I’ve just installed 8.04 on an HP Pavilion with nVidia Geoforce 8500 GTvideo card. Everything was fine until I tried to use the proprietary drive to enable 3-d effects. The 3-d effects worked fine but the network card wired) didn’t. I removed the proprietary driver and the network worked again.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:38:43 +0000

I think there’s a new “beta” version of Java that is supposed to work exceptionally well in Firefox 3.

Some more info here
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/02/a-better-java-for-firefox-3/

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:22:33 +0000

BadServo:
I’ve had no problems with the Nvidia driver. For the bluish video, have you tried adjusting the color balance in Totem?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:52:02 +0000

@Geoff

Thanks, I’m glad to hear it: installing Gutsy was a pain. I bought a new Inspiron, and when I went to to install it, the live CD wouldn’t even work — this was before they fixed it. It took a lot of workarounds to get Gutsy installed and even more to get it working nicely.

By: BadServo

BadServo — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:23:35 +0000

Just curious, since you appear to use the same video card as myself…

When you are using teh restricted nVidia driver with Desktop Effects enabled on Hardy Beta, do videos play with a bluish tint and does launching klibido crash your x server? This has been my experience, and I’ve reverted tot eh 2D driver as a result. Strangely this phenomenon is a regression from Gutsy.

By: h4p0

h4p0 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:18:55 +0000

solved!
compiz was keeping the old setting oz menu opacity (-20)
I adjusted it in general settings -> opacity tab
That’s beceuse I had installed manteining my old home directory
Hope could be useful to other that issue
byez!
enjoy