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| 2 | JohnMcPherson | 1 | Miscellaneous notes for [Ubuntu] 5.10 (Breezy) |
| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 2 | |
| 3 | !! No "splash" image on boot | ||
| 4 | AristotlePagaltzis | 4 | |
| 5 | If you <tt>dist-upgrade</tt> from [Ubuntu] 5.04 (Hoary) rather than installing 5.10, you might not get the new graphical splash screen during boot. This can be caused by the order that packages are upgraded -- the <tt>usplash</tt> package is needed before installing and setting up the LinuxKernel image. [Ubuntu]'s [Kernel] uses an InitialRamDisk, and this needs to be recreated ''after'' <tt>usplash</tt> is installed. Anyway, the following command will do what you need: | ||
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| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 7 | <verbatim> |
| 6 | zcat(1) | 8 | dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r` |
| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 9 | </verbatim> |
| 4 | AristotlePagaltzis | 10 | |
| 6 | zcat(1) | 11 | (`uname -r` will substitute in the current kernel release. Those are backquotes, the key under <esc>, not ordinary single quotes.) |
| 3 | AlastairPorter | 12 | |
| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 13 | That recreates the <tt>/boot/initrd.img-...</tt> file to use the splash image. |
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| 4 | AristotlePagaltzis | 15 | !! Proprietary module for NVidia graphics cards |
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| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 17 | To get proper 3D/[OpenGL] hardware acceleration, see NvidiaDriverHowto. |
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| 4 | AristotlePagaltzis | 19 | !! Sucky default "X Resources" |
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| 21 | [GNOME] uses X resources (via xrdb(1)) to try to make older [X11] programs look like the current [GTK] theme. However, figuring out where these are set is very difficult. [GNOME]'s <tt>gnome-settings-daemon</tt> is responsible for loading default X resources files. In [Ubuntu] 5.10, these are the files in <tt>/etc/gnome/config/*</tt>. For example, the <tt>General.ad</tt> sets default foreground and background colours for all X apps, and this is what makes xterm(1) default to black-on-white. (In [Gentoo], these files are in <tt>/usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb</tt>.) | ||
| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 22 | |
| 4 | AristotlePagaltzis | 23 | You can also manually override all these settings yourself via the <tt>xrdb</tt> program, but any time the <tt>gnome-settings-daemon</tt> reloads, the defaults will be reloaded. |
| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 24 | |
| 5 | JohnMcPherson | 25 | !!Can't change virtual consoles in X |
| 26 | If you have done a <tt>dist-upgrade</tt> from Debian Sarge or Sid to Ubuntu 5.10, you may have noticed that you can no longer use Alt+Ctrl+~[1-6] to change virtual consoles. | ||
| 27 | This is a consequence of the switchover from xfree to xorg - in Debian, <tt>/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc</tt> is a directory while in Breezy it is a file. When Xorg can't load this file, it doesn't know what to do with some key codes. Delete this directory and copy this file over from another Breezy computer, or re-install the "xkeyboard-config" package. To re-install, you'll probably need to do something like | ||
| 28 | <verbatim> | ||
| 29 | dpkg --force-depends --purge xkeyboard-config | ||
| 30 | apt-get install xkeyboard-config | ||
| 31 | </verbatim> | ||
| 32 | (By using dpkg --force-depends instead of apt-get or aptitude you won't end up removing other X and ubuntu-desktop packages). | ||
| 33 | Once this file is properly installed, "<tt>/etc/init.d/gdm restart</tt>" is needed to get X to use it. | ||
| 7 | MikeForbes | 34 | |
| 35 | !!Setting up Mozilla Thunderbird to work with Hotmail | ||
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| 9 | LawrenceDoliveiro | 37 | My girlfriend likes hotmail (*sigh*) Luckily, I think she mostly just likes her hotmail address. |
| 8 | LaniMercy | 38 | |
| 7 | MikeForbes | 39 | Anyway, I managed to get hotmail and thunderbird working together on her ubuntu-running laptop. |
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| 41 | I made sure she's running the latest version (breezy) and just apt-got the necessary stuff : | ||
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| 43 | <verbatim> | ||
| 44 | apt-get install hotway | ||
| 45 | </verbatim> | ||
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| 47 | That part was easy. There's no real configuration you need to do, but this isn't so secure.. you might want to edit hosts.allow & hosts.deny to tighten things a little. | ||
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| 49 | I made sure inetd was installed and running (though xinetd may be preferable? whatever works) as it wasn't installed by default. | ||
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| 51 | <verbatim> | ||
| 52 | apt-get install inetd | ||
| 53 | </verbatim> | ||
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| 55 | Then just point your mail client to 127.0.0.1 (or hostname or localhost.localdomain)and port 110 ; enter your full hotmail address (e.g. hotmailuser@hotmail.com) and hotmail password. | ||
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| 57 | Start getting your hotmail! | ||
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| 59 | :) | ||
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| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 61 | ---- |
| 62 | CategoryNotes |
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