greetings!
just installed the amd64-ized gutsy on a new machine here, and a few observations/questions come to mind.
was able to find a beta of the 64-bit opera 9.50, which seems to work and which to me is crucial. don't know why the regular version doesn't work -- 32-bit versions of my other applications seem to be just fine (especially textmaker out with which i could not live).
video -- geforce 8400, 256mb -- seems pretty slow, even for regular stuff. nv driver is installed. am worried, though, about making things worse by installing the closed drivers. any field reports? any tips?
i've also noticed that glxinfo reports that no glx support -- not even software support -- is installed. can this be right?
something puzzling: every couple of seconds the hard drive led blinks. it's a 500-gig wd sata drive. wondering if there's some media-present check or something going on, and if there's a way to disable this for the hard drive. probably does no harm, but it's annoying.
two more general issues: for almost a decade i've used the kde classic hicolor icon theme. i like it. it's non-fussy. and it appears to have been deprecated. anybodyt know where it can be downloaded? i spent an hour on kde-look with no success.
and finally. the drive came with XP on it, which i preserved for dual-boot -- occasionally have to run a winapp, and i've seen vista (and will have to live with that horrifying memory for the rest of my life!) and figure that XP with sp2 is probably as good as windows will ever get. anyway. i once thought that it would be possible to point vmware to an existing windows installation and run it in a virtual machine, but this appears not to be the case. so i'm wondering if it is possible to point wine to applications on the ntfs windows partition and run winapps that way, even to the point of letting wine use the existing dlls and so on. this is noncritical, but it would be cool if i could make it happen.
any observations and advice would be greatfully received.
thanks!
just installed the amd64-ized gutsy on a new machine here, and a few observations/questions come to mind.
was able to find a beta of the 64-bit opera 9.50, which seems to work and which to me is crucial. don't know why the regular version doesn't work -- 32-bit versions of my other applications seem to be just fine (especially textmaker out with which i could not live).
video -- geforce 8400, 256mb -- seems pretty slow, even for regular stuff. nv driver is installed. am worried, though, about making things worse by installing the closed drivers. any field reports? any tips?
i've also noticed that glxinfo reports that no glx support -- not even software support -- is installed. can this be right?
something puzzling: every couple of seconds the hard drive led blinks. it's a 500-gig wd sata drive. wondering if there's some media-present check or something going on, and if there's a way to disable this for the hard drive. probably does no harm, but it's annoying.
two more general issues: for almost a decade i've used the kde classic hicolor icon theme. i like it. it's non-fussy. and it appears to have been deprecated. anybodyt know where it can be downloaded? i spent an hour on kde-look with no success.
and finally. the drive came with XP on it, which i preserved for dual-boot -- occasionally have to run a winapp, and i've seen vista (and will have to live with that horrifying memory for the rest of my life!) and figure that XP with sp2 is probably as good as windows will ever get. anyway. i once thought that it would be possible to point vmware to an existing windows installation and run it in a virtual machine, but this appears not to be the case. so i'm wondering if it is possible to point wine to applications on the ntfs windows partition and run winapps that way, even to the point of letting wine use the existing dlls and so on. this is noncritical, but it would be cool if i could make it happen.
any observations and advice would be greatfully received.
thanks!
Comment