New 12.04 Beta 1 install comments

[oshunluvr]

Ok, since GreyGeek is so high on this new version I went ahead and installed Beta 1. I am changing over from 11.04 so I did a new parallel install on a new btrfs partition.

So far:
AWESOME
Nvidia driver auto-installed with Ubiquity. HUGE leap forward for those who have issues doing this. I still have to add my own tweaks to xorg.conf, but what a great advancement.

Dolphin has a bunch of cool "movement" going on when you open a folder - the icons shift around very smoothly. Just eyecandy, but who doesn't love eyecandy?

LAME
Ubiquity crashes at grub-install if you try to install to a btrfs partition. Solution is to have separate /boot partition. I was prepared for this so this was not a deal-breaker but grub is supposed to have this functionality at this point so I don't know where the bug is. Unfortunately, the Apport bug reporter crashed too so I don't have any debugging info.

Desktop switching via mouse thumb-wheel is jumpy. I have seen this before and may be able to make it better with some more tweaks.

New desktop background is weak, but that's so easy to change it hardly rates as lame.

FORWARD
So I literally have been using 12.04 Beta 1 for like 30 minutes so I have a lot of customization and installing to do. I will continue to comment on my experience as news things come up.

[wizard10000]

...Dolphin has a bunch of cool "movement" going on when you open a folder - the icons shift around very smoothly. Just eyecandy, but who doesn't love eyecandy?

OT, but if you want the eyecandy without installing a beta KDE 4.8 will do it for you

[Snowhog]

OT, but if you want the eyecandy without installing a beta KDE 4.8 will do it for you

OOT, but installing beta KDE 4.8 brings in Kmail 2 (??), and I don't want my "FULLY FUNCTIONING" Kontact/Kmail mucked up.

[oshunluvr]

LAME
I've discovered some really overdone or broken dependencies. Cheese requires the entire gnome-3 desktop and brasero and openclipart-openoffice.org requires all of libreoffice by installed - even though I've replaced it with openoffice. Hopefully, these are bugs or beta issues, and will be fixed at final release.

[wizard10000]

LAME
I've discovered some really overdone or broken dependencies. Cheese requires the entire gnome-3 desktop and brasero and openclipart-openoffice.org requires all of libreoffice by installed - even though I've replaced it with openoffice. Hopefully, these are bugs or beta issues, and will be fixed at final release.

Just a thought, but did you try installing either with --no-install-recommends?

[oshunluvr]

That worked well enough for the clipart (still required the libre clipart package but not the entire suite)

For cheese, it reduced 54 packages to 17

stuart@office:~$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends cheese
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cheese-common gnome-desktop3-data gnome-video-effects libcanberra-gtk3-0 libcheese-gtk21 libcheese3
  libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-gst-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0
  libcluttergesture-0.0.2-0 libcogl-pango0 libcogl5 libgnome-desktop-3-2 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libmx-1.0-2
Suggested packages:
  gnome-video-effects-frei0r
Recommended packages:
  gvfs gnome-icon-theme nautilus-sendto libcanberra-gtk3-module libclutter-1.0-common libcogl-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cheese cheese-common gnome-desktop3-data gnome-video-effects libcanberra-gtk3-0 libcheese-gtk21
  libcheese3 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-gst-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0
  libcluttergesture-0.0.2-0 libcogl-pango0 libcogl5 libgnome-desktop-3-2 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libmx-1.0-2
0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,585 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

I found an app call webkam for KDE I'm going to try....

EDIT, never mind it's too old.

[Snowhog]

I've discovered a pure KDE substitute for Cheese -- Kamerka. I have a post on it in Community Cafe. Take a look. I've got it in stalled a few minutes ago, and it's great!!

[Krzysieq]

Seems like a general install comments thread here to me, so here goes:
+
Love the polished looks of KDE4.8, in my view a nice advancement from 11.10 and KDE4.7
Everything works twice as fast as on Win8 customer preview I installed before. It even worked faster than Win8 installed on hdd when I booted kubuntu from CD!
Hasn't crashed once for me yet, so it's also a step forward from KDE4.7 which had some small glitches
-
Unable to setup two screens as yet (posted on another thread about this)
Didn't manage to find drivers for my keyboard (Microsoft Natural Ergo 4000) or mouse (Logitech MX Revolution). Anybody knows if they exist?

Otherwise I'm deligthed to finally have got rid of windows from my pc and while with my wife 11.10 a bit rough on the edges, I think that once 12.04 hardware problems are resolved, we won't miss M$ software much.

[rjj]

Seems like a general install comments thread here to me, so here goes:
+

Didn't manage to find drivers for my keyboard (Microsoft Natural Ergo 4000) or mouse (Logitech MX Revolution). Anybody knows if they exist?

Kubuntu recognized my keyboard (Microsoft Natural Ergo 4000) as the wireless equivalent. It works

[oshunluvr]

Try this for the MX mouse

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._MX_Revolution

[67GTA]

I've only encountered 1 weird problem. If I try to play any movie file with dragonplayer or VLC, I get logged out. Never seen that before.

[daihard]

GOOD
* Installing Japanese language input support was a breeze. I'd usually have to do some hacking to get it to work in previous versions of Kubuntu (i.e. 8.04 and 10.10), but with Precise, all I had to do was install the Japanese language pack and ibus-anthy. Adding Anthy to the list of IME inside the iBus configuration tool was a bit of a hassle, but that was easily manageable. Great job!
* Ran into no issues whatsoever during installation. Everything went very smoothly, including the hardware detection. Dual-monitor configuration (I'd prefer TwinView) would have taken a bit of time if I weren't familiar with X11, but I had my original xorg.conf saved from 10.10, so I just copied it into /etc/X11. Done.
* They have finally fixed the notorious bug in KMail where the empty lines between paragraphs were stripped out when the message was sent. The bug forced me to switch to Evolution. I'm so glad to be able to use KMail again. It's a hundred times better than Evolution.
* kdbg (a gdb frontend) is now linked with KDE 4 instead of KDE 3. It means it honours the KDE 4 theme. Yay!

BAD
* Chromium sometimes crashes when it's launched for the first time after a session login. I installed it from the standard repository.
* xterm was not part of the initial install. That caused kdbg to not work correctly when I debugged a command-line app.

So obviously I've got a very positive impression on Precise. Love to be able to keep it using under support for 5 years.

[Krzysieq]

Tried the tip for my keyboard (MS Natural Ergo 4000), but hasn't worked for me Anyway, I'll wait till the release to see how that boils down (also mouse). However, I seem to be ecountering another issue - when my pc goes to sleep (or hibernate), I can't seem to wake it up otherwise than by holding the power button for 3 second for an instant reboot. It responds to nothing else

[daihard]

Tried the tip for my keyboard (MS Natural Ergo 4000), but hasn't worked for me Anyway, I'll wait till the release to see how that boils down (also mouse). However, I seem to be ecountering another issue - when my pc goes to sleep (or hibernate), I can't seem to wake it up otherwise than by holding the power button for 3 second for an instant reboot. It responds to nothing else

About your hibernation issue, how much swap space do you have allocated? I've heard that having the amount of disk space less than the amount of RAM for the swap partition may cause lock-ups from hibernation.

[Krzysieq]

4 GB with my pc having 3GB of RAM