In my previous post, I basically said how cool Gutsy+Compiz is. And it is cool, no question there. But I also had some problems with it, which is what I'm going to relay to you.
2 days ago, Kubuntu Feisty box: I was reading some article on digg about Gutsy, and how it was ready, but just waiting for the release date, or something like that. I'd had some problemes before when trying to upgrade by replacing all instances of edgy with feisty in my /etc/apt/sources.list, then doing sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade, so I decided to do it the "official" way, which is to do gksu `update-manager -d` (replace -d with -c now, because Gutsy is officially out now). Ok, the window comes up. Hey, what do you know? There's a new version of kubuntu out! I click on the 'upgrade now' button, and apt-get starts churning away, but not before it informs me that all third-party repos have been disabled temporarily, as they may not have gutsy packages ready, etc...
2 hours later:
Hey cool, it says it's ready to restart! So, I restart, and I'm greeted with the kdm splash screen, oscillating at 60Hz, which makes my head hurt. Turns out, the kernel module that interfaces with the driver for my nvidia FX5500 card either depended on something in the older kernel, or something in the newer kernel broke it. Regardless, I was stuck using the 'nv' driver, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but when I couldn't adjust the frequency of the display, it was terrible. So, I dropped down to Virtual Terminal 1, and installed nvidias driver with envy. Hmm, now I've got no X. So I dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg (the -phigh option didn't give me any option-changing screens), and confiugred X to use the nv driver. Next, I did sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx, and when that didn't work, tried nvidia-glx-new, which also didn't work. So, I was stuck with no accelerated graphics, no monitor frequency over 60Hz, and a semi-broken system. What was I to do?
I downloaded (by mistake) the ubuntu-gutsy-i386 install disk from here onto Sarahs computer, and installed it. Like I said before, I've got my /home on a different partition than /, so I wasn't worried about losing my data. Once I booted, I was surprised at how nice GNOME looked, and decided to try it out for a while (KDE was ok, but the performance was pretty poor). So far, GNOME is shown itself to be a very capable Desktop Environment, and now Sarah says she wants to check it out, and maybe install gutsy on her lappy. I'm hoping that Gutsy will have some kind of workaround for her Broadcom card. I have to use ndiswrapper to use it, which is way less than ideal.
Looking forward to learning more of the ins and outs of GNOME!
PS - Sorry for any spelling errors. I was typing this up while I was moving 7 gigs of data from a VM to the host machine, which doesn't lend itself to a responsive environment, :)
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