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Miscellaneous notes for [Ubuntu] 5.10 (Breezy)
!! No "splash" image on boot
-If you dist-upgrade 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 '
usplash'
package is needed before installing and setting up the linux kernel
image. Ubuntu's kernel
uses an 'initrd' image
, and this needs to be recreated *
after*
usplash is installed. Anyway, the following command will do what you need:
+
+
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:
+
<verbatim>
dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.12-9-386
</verbatim>
+
+An [amd64] setup would probably look something like:
+
+<verbatim>
+dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.12-9-amd64-generic
+</verbatim>
+
That recreates the <tt>/boot/initrd.img-...</tt> file to use the splash image.
-!!Proprietary module for NVidia graphics cards
+!! Proprietary module for NVidia graphics cards
+
To get proper 3D/[OpenGL] hardware acceleration, see NvidiaDriverHowto.
-!!Sucky default "X Resources"
-Gnome2
uses xresources
(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 default to black-on-white. (In gentoo
, these files are in <tt>/usr/share/control-center-2./xrdb</tt>.)
+!! Sucky default "X Resources"
+
+[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./xrdb</tt>.)
-You can also manually override all these settings yourself via the <tt>xrdb</tt> program, but any time the gnome-settings-daemon reloads, the defaults will be reloaded.
+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.
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