Hey Kubuntu...
Well last night while traversing some much unknown waters of xorg.conf, I completely f***ed my Kubuntu!
That said, now it was time for installation no. 3. 1st time everything was horrible as expected: I dusted off an old 120 gb that was sitting around the apartment and loaded into the computer and said, "Time to try this whole K/Ubuntu revolution". Being experienced with new operating systems (I've been messing up computers since Dos Shell) and their nuances I was quite impressed with the install for Kubuntu - simple and worked. Of course I then dove head first and rendered the OS inoperable in no-time (when I was 12 I decided to see if windows 95 would let me delete the "windows" folder and send it to the recycling bin - it did, didn't give me a chance to "empty the bin" before the OS ate itself though
).
2nd time through - I was immersed for a week in the world of Kubuntu, started customizing it and learning it's ins and outs getting more and more familiar with the command line, reading the forums to see what I could do with it - which is when I found Beryl!
Needless to say this was when I gave myself a face first introduction to the xorg config file (queue "wamp waaa" horn).
So here I am on episode 3 of my Kubuntu journey, eager to see how far I get this time! So I'm posting this (as I always seem to do) from work to get the forums yet again prepared for more questions (seemed like last week I was just asking them, because it was ). While at home last night, rolling the opening credits of this latest installment, I managed to get enough time to get Kubuntu installed, updated, and did the adept installer on some of my more favorite apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org stuff) and left the computer to get acquainted to itself again while I trotted off to work! This time I installed Beryl using the Installer, but have yet to test it.
Tonight when I return home, I will add the restricted repositories again and get Amorak to play MP3's (Great MP3 player btw, are they planning on making it comparable to other "All in ones" out there?) and get my DVD player up and running (a program I haven't tested yet, but I want to watch Scanner Darkly tonight and my livingroom DVD player is of the $20 walmart variety). So, where's my question? Is all okay in Mailman land? Why is he posting this? Well, it's effectively for the whole effect of getting Beryl up and running, so I'm wondering if anyone can suggest (or tell me) any good tutorials for getting this beast to run with an ATI Card. I'm hearing a lot of conflicting accounts of getting the bastard to work with the proprietary drivers, or the open source ones. The article I have linked below seems to be comprehensive, but does anyone know if this will work for me?
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_fei...ryl_ati_radeon
Also this is kind of a shout out to the forum gurus who put up with people like me - who frustratingly post their problems at 2am when they're drunk or 2pm and in the same shape :P
Finally: A few points I didn't get addressed during my last run that I'll post here as well (one step backward, two steps forward it seems with every attempt)
1. With the 2nd install I was trying to figure out how do I get my NTFS hard drive to mount automatically at startup, instead of constantly running having to use Konsole and mount the drive from there.
2. I was starting to get interested in the networking of Kubuntu and was trying to find something comparable to the "Network Neighborhood" from Windows, where I could browse network connections and see other computers/workgroups attached to my router. I had been investigating it to see the possibility of mounting a G4 Ibook hard drive via the network but didn't get to far before the fall of episode 2 (i.e. my butchering of xorg to an un-recognizable state).
Cheers and Beers!
L.
Well last night while traversing some much unknown waters of xorg.conf, I completely f***ed my Kubuntu!
That said, now it was time for installation no. 3. 1st time everything was horrible as expected: I dusted off an old 120 gb that was sitting around the apartment and loaded into the computer and said, "Time to try this whole K/Ubuntu revolution". Being experienced with new operating systems (I've been messing up computers since Dos Shell) and their nuances I was quite impressed with the install for Kubuntu - simple and worked. Of course I then dove head first and rendered the OS inoperable in no-time (when I was 12 I decided to see if windows 95 would let me delete the "windows" folder and send it to the recycling bin - it did, didn't give me a chance to "empty the bin" before the OS ate itself though
). 2nd time through - I was immersed for a week in the world of Kubuntu, started customizing it and learning it's ins and outs getting more and more familiar with the command line, reading the forums to see what I could do with it - which is when I found Beryl!
Needless to say this was when I gave myself a face first introduction to the xorg config file (queue "wamp waaa" horn). So here I am on episode 3 of my Kubuntu journey, eager to see how far I get this time! So I'm posting this (as I always seem to do) from work to get the forums yet again prepared for more questions (seemed like last week I was just asking them, because it was
). While at home last night, rolling the opening credits of this latest installment, I managed to get enough time to get Kubuntu installed, updated, and did the adept installer on some of my more favorite apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org stuff) and left the computer to get acquainted to itself again while I trotted off to work! This time I installed Beryl using the Installer, but have yet to test it.Tonight when I return home, I will add the restricted repositories again and get Amorak to play MP3's (Great MP3 player btw, are they planning on making it comparable to other "All in ones" out there?) and get my DVD player up and running (a program I haven't tested yet, but I want to watch Scanner Darkly tonight and my livingroom DVD player is of the $20 walmart variety). So, where's my question? Is all okay in Mailman land? Why is he posting this? Well, it's effectively for the whole effect of getting Beryl up and running, so I'm wondering if anyone can suggest (or tell me) any good tutorials for getting this beast to run with an ATI Card. I'm hearing a lot of conflicting accounts of getting the bastard to work with the proprietary drivers, or the open source ones. The article I have linked below seems to be comprehensive, but does anyone know if this will work for me?
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_fei...ryl_ati_radeon
Also this is kind of a shout out to the forum gurus who put up with people like me - who frustratingly post their problems at 2am when they're drunk
or 2pm and in the same shape :PFinally: A few points I didn't get addressed during my last run that I'll post here as well (one step backward, two steps forward it seems with every attempt)
1. With the 2nd install I was trying to figure out how do I get my NTFS hard drive to mount automatically at startup, instead of constantly running having to use Konsole and mount the drive from there.
2. I was starting to get interested in the networking of Kubuntu and was trying to find something comparable to the "Network Neighborhood" from Windows, where I could browse network connections and see other computers/workgroups attached to my router. I had been investigating it to see the possibility of mounting a G4 Ibook hard drive via the network but didn't get to far before the fall of episode 2 (i.e. my butchering of xorg to an un-recognizable state).
Cheers and Beers!
L.
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