Ubuntu 8.10 Released

I upgrade my installation in VMWare and now the mouse is borked. The click registers about half way across the screen from where the pointer is located. Looks good otherwise. Generic mouse driver works but the functionality of VMWare Tools is lost.
 
kllrnohj said:
Crossover was giving away its products for free as a one day promotion a couple of days ago. I downloaded it, but have yet to install it.
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Yeah, I've been busy and totally missed out. I only found out about it yesterday. Oh well, I'll still give the demo a shot just out of curiosity. I don't expect I'll use Linux as my main gaming environment anyway, but I wouldn't mind seeing if there are any differences in the games themselves. I do know that audio in Windows sounds much much better than it does in Linux (blaming Creative for their lack of working drivers and the hacky solution to get it working in Ubuntu).
 
8.10 rocks, been using it since last week's RC on my Dell Vostro. Now my Dell laptop is 100% Linux instead of a 50/50 dual boot with XP. Ubuntu just plays really well on my laptop and it's there to stay.
 
I have the x64 release running on my Core 2 Quad, 6GB DDR2, GTX260. Everything seems to work pretty well. There are some problems with flash compatibility with x64. Most sites work but some refuse to recognize that flash is installed. The Dark Room theme is pretty good. I don't really play many PC games anymore but I've been thinking about trying out Farcry 2.
 
Anyone notice that GNOME is more and more shamelessly trying to look like Aqua? Meanwhile, Microsoft has almost directly ripped off the latest KDE for Windows 7's Explorer. Kind of iron - we've come full circle in the OS scene. :D

markt435 said:
for what card? ...noob...

;):p
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Both ATI and NVIDIA's included drivers are broken ATM. We'll probably see an 8.10.01 pretty soon. I can't believe Canonical did this AGAIN - Hardy also shipped with untested hot-off-the-press software to meet the release schedule, and then the real deal was quietly rereleased later as a "service pack." That is a bad, bad, bad habit to get in to, especially since the GNU community criticizes Microsoft so much for doing this.
 
InorganicMatter said:
Both ATI and NVIDIA's included drivers are broken ATM. We'll probably see an 8.10.01 pretty soon. I can't believe Canonical did this AGAIN - Hardy also shipped with untested hot-off-the-press software to meet the release schedule, and then the real deal was quietly rereleased later as a "service pack." That is a bad, bad, bad habit to get in to, especially since the GNU community criticizes Microsoft so much for doing this.
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Everything worked just fine for me. Care to elaborate some more? I updated with Nvidia's drivers out of habit. But before that I was able to run dual monitors, one at 1920x1200 and the other 1680x1050. Is there something in particular not working?
 
Maximus825 said:
Everything worked just fine for me. Care to elaborate some more? I updated with Nvidia's drivers out of habit. But before that I was able to run dual monitors, one at 1920x1200 and the other 1680x1050. Is there something in particular not working?
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Which driver are you using? The 177.x one that came with Ubuntu (even says its recommended) doesn't work for me. It doesn't install correctly and gives an error on restart. Had to revert back to the 173.x ones that were included in 8.04.
 
drew630 said:
Which driver are you using? The 177.x one that came with Ubuntu (even says its recommended) doesn't work for me. It doesn't install correctly and gives an error on restart. Had to revert back to the 173.x ones that were included in 8.04.
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I'm using 177.80. It's a 64bit driver. I just downloaded it from nvidia's website, installed build-essential, shutdown Gnome, ran 'sudo sh NVIDIA-..." and followed the prompts. Installed flawlessly.
 
Maximus825 said:
I'm using 177.80. It's a 64bit driver. I just downloaded it from nvidia's website, installed build-essential, shutdown Gnome, ran 'sudo sh NVIDIA-..." and followed the prompts. Installed flawlessly.
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I will try it that way. I was going through System>Administration>Hardware Drivers and installing from there.
 
I've had 0 problems with nVidia's drivers in 8.10. The only reason I upgraded though was because it included a bug fix for my adaptec scsi controller. Darn thing would randomly hard-lock my computer in 8.04.
 
Serpico said:
I do know that audio in Windows sounds much much better than it does in Linux (blaming Creative for their lack of working drivers and the hacky solution to get it working in Ubuntu).
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I have an old Audigy that I'm still using and it sounds identical in Vista and Ubuntu. I'm not using a Creative driver, though, but the Alsa one (The Audigy series specs were given to Alsa, I believe).
 
kllrnohj said:
I have an old Audigy that I'm still using and it sounds identical in Vista and Ubuntu. I'm not using a Creative driver, though, but the Alsa one (The Audigy series specs were given to Alsa, I believe).
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I'm using an X-FI right now and the difference is just massive, absolutely no oomph in the low end no matter how I tweak my speakers and settings. I'm also using the Alsa driver since Creative's drivers don't work.

Well, it didn't work the last time I was fiddling with it three or four months ago. When I have time to waste I'll see if anything has changed or improved since.
 
Serpico said:
I'm using an X-FI right now and the difference is just massive, absolutely no oomph in the low end no matter how I tweak my speakers and settings. I'm also using the Alsa driver since Creative's drivers don't work.

Well, it didn't work the last time I was fiddling with it three or four months ago. When I have time to waste I'll see if anything has changed or improved since.
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Well X-fi cards are one of the VERY few pieces of hardware that don't play nice with linux
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Well I should say Creative don't play nice with linux (since who was to blame for nvidia cards not performing well at vista launch? nvidia or microsoft)

They did have some propaganda a year or two ago saying that they were commited to a binary blob X-fi linux drivers but after MS pulled the rug from under them with userland snd they had to dedicate their dev team to Vista support

OSS4 has actually got 1/2 decent X-fi support and ALSA have started pushing some form of X-fi support

it aint ideal but if idiotic companies don't provide support/drivers then reverse-engineering is the only way it can be done
 
eeyrjmr - Yeah, it sucks, and I'm putting full blame on Creative at this point for saying ages ago they are going to provide full Linux support and then not following through.
 
meh... i tried it on an extra HD i had and just didn't like it....

synaptic didn't work right out of the box, the installation didn't play right with my TV tuner card, and it felt horribly bloated and slow overall....

meanwhile FreeBSD, Debian, Arch, Gentoo, all work wonderfully on my system... and all play nice with my TV tuner......

2/10
 
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