Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

[dibl]

This is a machine that began life as Kubuntu 7.04 -- this is the fourth upgrade on the same installation. I set this up for an elderly relative who only uses it for browsing, e-mailing, banking, and printing the occasional recipe.

I noticed a minor issue with the Intel 82945G/GZ graphics system. The 8.10 (previous) screen was 1440 x 900, but after upgrading, that screen size hangs off the right side of the display -- I can't see the "Cashew" or the right end of the panel. In System Settings I was able to change it to 1280 x 960, and it looks fine, but the setting won't hold through a reboot. It's the same bug I saw on an old Dell Dimension 2350 -- if you open System Settings and click "Display" it instantly changes to the correct resolution, but if you reboot, you're back to the wrong resolution.

Other than that, the upgrade went flawlessly -- all her desktop junk came through, and all the Firefox and user settings seem to have been perfectly preserved. Color me relieved!

[sithlord48]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

have you tried to add some mode lines to your xorg.conf. i have had to do this for my server running with out a monitor attached it wants 640x480 res. after adding the mode lines it has stuck @ 1024x768 since restarting x the first time.(i used vnc to do a few things w/ gnome on the this box)

i added the following lines to my "screen"section

	SubSection "Display"
		Depth 24
		Virtual 1024	768
		Modes "800x600@60" "1024x768@60"
	EndSubSection

i also created a monitor section w/ those modelines

hope that helps.

[dibl]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

Thanks sithlord48. I have not tried mode lines on either of the Intel graphics systems that I've installed. I'll give it a try the next chance I get -- both of these machines belong to other people, so I'll have to wait for an opportunity.

[sithlord48]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

i completely understand as i set a lot of systems up for people.

[flarson]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

Out of curiosity, which package manager did you use to upgrade?

[sithlord48]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

on my upgrade i used the dist upgrade button in the Gnome update manager (on the panel). removed my xorg.conf with out a prompt what so ever, i did get a prompt for other custom files.

[dibl]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

Out of curiosity, which package manager did you use to upgrade?

Hey m-h. This system was running Kubuntu 8.10 (previously upgraded from 8.04, which was updated from 7.10, which was upgraded from the original 7.04). So it had the Adept Notifier and it showed updates available (of course -- I last updated it in early April). After I ran updates, it offered "Full Upgrade" and I accepted with a click of the button. Then I just left it alone until it asked me to confirm that the mime setup would be changed, and there was one other user confirmation question during the process, which took about 45 minutes. The primary user activity during the upgrade process is "leave it alone".

[flarson]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

That sounds like adept did the work. I think that uses the actual apt libraries, and I suspect this explains the smooth upgrade. I have been learning that kpackagekit does not use the apt libraries but implements its own functionality.

I wonder if adept is still installed on that system or did the upgrade remove it? I also wonder why Ubuntu wants to mess with something as proven and reliable as the apt system. Don't they have better things to work on?

[dibl]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

I wonder if adept is still installed on that system or did the upgrade remove it?

That's a good question -- my guess is that Adept is gone, but I'll check next time I'm there. It looks like KDE 4.2, plain vanilla version, as per Kubuntu 9.04.

I personally prefer apt-get in the Konsole, but I understand the theory that a GUI front-end is required. Given that Synaptic still works just fine in that capacity, I'm not sure why the rush to KPackageKit, but I'm not a developer, so ......

[sithlord48]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

on my laptop i had to remove adept after the upgrade. it might still be there.

[The Liquidator]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

I upgraded to 9.04 from 8.10 and it left adept there and working. I'm glad it did as for all its faults I find it way, way better than kpackagekit

[Tecumseh]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

I noticed a minor issue with the Intel 82945G/GZ graphics system. The 8.10 (previous) screen was 1440 x 900, but after upgrading, that screen size hangs off the right side of the display -- I can't see the "Cashew" or the right end of the panel. In System Settings I was able to change it to 1280 x 960, and it looks fine, but the setting won't hold through a reboot. It's the same bug I saw on an old Dell Dimension 2350 -- if you open System Settings and click "Display" it instantly changes to the correct resolution, but if you reboot, you're back to the wrong resolution.

Does ATI have a simular tool compared to nvidia-settings that can write to the xorg.conf ?

I recently had some trouble with resolution resetting on my wife's pc. I finally got it right by deleting (made backup) all xorg.conf versions and let the nvidia-settings write a clean xorg.conf for the set display resolution.

[sithlord48]

Re: Upgrade to 9.04 Worked Semi-Perfectly!

if you have the ati driver then you can run the "Ati Catalyst Control Center" if you can not find it in ur menu then you can run it from a konsole or krunner (alt+f2 is default) with this command

amdcccle

if the program will not open look for this line in your xorg.conf file (and your sure your using the ati driver)

Disable	"dri2"

just remove the line or put a # in front of the line. then it should run.

i don't exactly remember the nvidia-settings program cause i have not used it in a while but i think it has more options then then ati's control center.