johnniecarcinogen Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 The distribution release was released today: http://www.kubuntu.com/download.php It is really easy to get in working order using Automatix: http://www.beerorkid.com/arnieboy/automatix_6.1_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i automatix_6.1_i386.deb Automatix It even installed swiftfox, which is firefox optimized for your particular processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullMetal Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Not only has Kubuntu been released, but plain old regular Gnome Ubuntu and its light-weight XCFE child Xubuntu have been released/updated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Anyone tried it yet? I've heard good things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince29 Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 I've tried kubuntu pre-release. It's becoming quite good, but I had trouble configuring my GPU. the live cd did not came with ATI official drivers . The main problem I had was the lack of gcc/g++ or any developement tool on this distro. As I only have an internet acces on my office computer, I could not use apt-get to solve this issue. Otherwise, KDE is quite beautifull, the provided software too, although they could have bundled the gimp and inkscape. And pr-releases of Amarok could not play aac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted June 2, 2006 Author Share Posted June 2, 2006 I've tried kubuntu pre-release. It's becoming quite good, but I had trouble configuring my GPU. the live cd did not came with ATI official drivers . The main problem I had was the lack of gcc/g++ or any developement tool on this distro. As I only have an internet acces on my office computer, I could not use apt-get to solve this issue. Otherwise, KDE is quite beautifull, the provided software too, although they could have bundled the gimp and inkscape. And pr-releases of Amarok could not play aac. I used this guide here: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Da...tallation_Guide for the ATI drivers. My tvcard is recognized by udev correctly this time (warty and breezy didn't) and the kubuntu desktop is now polished and doesn't seem to be just an afterthought to ubuntu. I guess since owner Mark Shuttleworth now supports KDE, kubuntu will continue to improve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 i'm glad the coded automatix for this build. Now if only they had an updated downloadable automatix CD... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicheusz Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 It even installed swiftfox, which is firefox optimized for your particular processor. Thanks for this tip. I don't know these builds earlier. Swiftfox is really fast on my SUSE 10.1 x64 It's there any easySUSE or Automatic for SUSE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Just downloaded the Ubuntu 6.06 x64 ISO. Will report back tomorrow when I install it (hopefully I can find a spare HDD lying around...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry_Callahan Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 I installed 6.06 on a 2° SATA HD(1st Sata HD contains OS X). If I boot OS X, it attemps to mount the Sata HD with Ubuntu and it destroys some files on it. This makes Ubuntu unbootable. Can anyone help me out? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzie123 Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 Yup, I already installed this babe (Ubuntu to be precise... you know, the GNOME siblings). There's quite alot that changes on the backoffice. The 'cosmetics' on the front doesn't change that much. It's just that we now have almost-native support for XGL/Compiz (there's still workarounds for this though). Currently aptitude-ing kde-desktop to accompany my GNOME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niveck Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 few quick questions: 1. when i make a new partition, should i make it FAT32 or NTFS? 2. during the install, will it also set up an OS selector so that i can restart my comp and then select XP or Kubuntu? everything else i'll figure out like drivers for my graphics card and all that. thank, Niveck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 few quick questions: 1. when i make a new partition, should i make it FAT32 or NTFS? 2. during the install, will it also set up an OS selector so that i can restart my comp and then select XP or Kubuntu? everything else i'll figure out like drivers for my graphics card and all that. thank, Niveck 1. For linux you should make at least 2 partitions. Usually a smaller 1 gig or so 'swap' (mounted as swap) and a 'root' partition mounted at '/' (just a slash). Ubuntu/kubuntu by default uses 'ext3' for the file system. If you have a gig of ram a swap may not be necessay but some distrobutions of linux require it. 2. Yes, If you have Windows already installed The bootloader 'grub' will automatically configure itself to give you the option to choose the OS at boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 I insist you use 3 parttions. /, swap, and /home. The reason for the /home partition is if you ever need to reinstall, you only need to nuke the root and swap partitions. Keep your /home partition if you have existing files, user settings, and any anything you don't want to loose. (K)Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Text install version now has the ability to install grub on any partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 I'm rather liking Ubuntu 6.06 (I hate KDE, but I won't go there). If you want more fun, configure XGL and Compiz. I just have /boot, /, and swap partitions setup and / is xfs. /home is a good idea like domino said though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Ditto, I can't feel KDE at all. I've used Gnome for more than 7yrs. If you insist on playning with compiz, install the one in the Ubuntu repo as it isn't updated as frequent as the compiz.net packages and is more stable. A rule of thumb with compix/xgl is to always say 1 build behind the newest one. That way, the newest packages usualy get fixed a day or two after finding bugs. It's a good idea to install gset-compiz if you want a gui to admin compiz. Also pay attention to xgl-server, and mesa upgrades. Even though it will not cause any problems under gnome, it can cause problems with xgl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Ditto, I can't feel KDE at all. I've used Gnome for more than 7yrs. If you insist on playning with compiz, install the one in the Ubuntu repo as it isn't updated as frequent as the compiz.net packages and is more stable. A rule of thumb with compix/xgl is to always say 1 build behind the newest one. That way, the newest packages usualy get fixed a day or two after finding bugs. It's a good idea to install gset-compiz if you want a gui to admin compiz. Also pay attention to xgl-server, and mesa upgrades. Even though it will not cause any problems under gnome, it can cause problems with xgl. I'm crazy and use the new repo ones. It really is quite slick, I love it. It'll be nice once they get some single project together with it so any 'average joe' can see what it is like. Not the most simple thing to get going currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 It'll be nice once they get some single project together with it so any 'average joe' can see what it is like. Not the most simple thing to get going currently. There is small talk in the compiz camp about a fork from the original package. Some aren't too keen about which is understandable. I also think that compiz/xgl needs to be more uniformed as more and more people are wanting to install it. The original developers invested time on this project for Novell, so maybe it is a good idea to go some what of a different road for distros other than Novell and SuSE. I also feal that there have been more breakage in the packages as more and more plugins are developed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted June 28, 2006 Author Share Posted June 28, 2006 It is pretty simple on suse 10.1 gnome, just install xgl and compiz and there is a XGL option in the control panel. But I wish my tv card worked on xgl because it is the only thing keeping me from having it enabled all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 heh, suse should work fine. xgl/compiz was first distrubted under either novell desktop, suse, or gentoo. I have the same delema as you. I still haven't gotten my tv capture card to work. That and my O2 Xda IIs isn't very well support under any Linux distro. So my 12gig XP partition stays untill I have full hardware support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 What type of TV tuner card are you using and what have you done to try to get it working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I have the Prolink Pixelview PV-BT878P+ (Rev.4C). It's obviouse that I didn't try hard enough last time because I couldn't run it. I can't code for {censored}, but i'll be damned if I can't get a hardware to run on my system. I tried again and it worked this time. What I did was figure out which of the 5 cards I really had. I didn't feel like yanking card from the box. I found the card's ID from LinuxTV.org cardlist. Here is my method: sudo rmmod bttv sudo rmmod tuner sudo modprobe bttv card=70 dmesg The card was properly listed and audio worked. I did have to manually unmute the line-in from alsa mixer. Started tvtime and wouldn't you know it? Fashion TV Swimsuit Edition is on edit: how does the screen capture work? It always comes up as blank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Here ya go Install xawtv and set the "Capture" mode to "grabdisplay". Contributed by xplode_me from compiz.net. You'll also find the Xawtv captures way better than Tvtime. The config might be a little tricky at first, but you'll get used to it. Only took me 5 minutes to get used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Here ya go Install xawtv and set the "Capture" mode to "grabdisplay". Contributed by xplode_me from compiz.net. You'll also find the Xawtv captures way better than Tvtime. The config might be a little tricky at first, but you'll get used to it. Only took me 5 minutes to get used to it. Nice, now deinterlace that signal and it'll look really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Try to modprobe the tuner as well "modprobe bttv card=70 tuner=?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Nice, now deinterlace that signal and it'll look really good. It's not noticable while viewing, even in full screen. I only noticed it while taking screens shots. If I add tuner=x, where x is some number, it still defaults to 5. So I just left it out of modprobe.conf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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