Dapper is Ubuncool

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I dist-upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Dapper tonight, the current development release of the popular Ubuntu Linux with which so many of you are intimately familiar. It was a bit of pain to do the dist-upgrade, but nothing too nasty. However, from tonight I have 100% coverage of my hardware, this includes the SD/MMC card slot on the side (yes, it can read MMC, but not in Windows), out of the box.

Seriously, you put the card in and Zing!... you can't do that on a Mac.

You unmount the card and the unmounted volume stays around until you eject the media. Everything seems to behave like it should.

That's Ubuncool!

Now, if only we could get a fix for this issue, I understand it does not affect Debian.
Posted 18/2/06 01:13 — 18 comments

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From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 17:45 (UTC)
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Is binary driver 3d accel working out of the box (or do you not have any applicable hardware)? Nvidia or ATI?
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 18:36 (UTC)
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He's got Intel i915 video, so 3D works fine.
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-18 03:12 (UTC)
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It seems to be working on my nVidia based workstation. At least the drivers are running and GL seems to be available.
From:[info]suppressingfire
Date:2006-02-17 21:10 (UTC)

upgrading to dapper hosed my system...

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upgrading from breezy to dapper gave me some serious trouble on the Dell Precision 370 I have in my office at school... the installation of acpid hung the machine entirely when trying to load its modules, so I had to boot with acpi=off to get past that. I was able to get it to finish the upgrade, but now it can't find my root filesystem (on a SATA drive) during boot.

When I get to campus next week, I'll file some bug reports while I figure it out. In the meantime, it might be a bad idea for people with similar systems to upgrade...

mike
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 22:56 (UTC)

Re: upgrading to dapper hosed my system...

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Easy as Dell.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-17 23:02 (UTC)

Re: upgrading to dapper hosed my system...

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i had the same problems updating my computer ... just couldnt find the root filesystem nomore
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-18 03:07 (UTC)

Re: upgrading to dapper hosed my system...

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I understand their are problems existing with certain SATA chipsets. You should be able to boot in legacy-emulation mode to shove a new kernel on there (I think they've fixed it by now).

What was happening was that all of the SATA chipset drivers weren't getting included or some shit. Thankfully mine on my workstation (which has been running Dapper since day dot) didn't have the problem.
From:[info]theducks
Date:2006-02-18 00:44 (UTC)
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you can't do that on a Mac.

Uh, you actually can :) It detects if media is inserted that looks like it's from a camera and asks if you want to use Image Capture or iPhoto to get the images off there.
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-18 03:04 (UTC)
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With your integrated secure digital slot...
From:[info]grahame
Date:2006-02-18 07:00 (UTC)
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Your OS is cooler than our OS because of your hardware? :-P Seems like a pretty irrelevant point to make! Especially since we've been able to read SD on our laptops forever, just with a converting widget..
From:[info]trs80 [typekey.com]
Date:2006-02-18 09:29 (UTC)
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Everyone's been able to read SD using converting widgets forever.
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-18 09:57 (UTC)
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No, my OS is cooler than the other OS that runs on this platform because it can read MMC cards (the Windows driver has no support even though it's available in the hardware).

My hardware is cooler than yours because I can read both of them (it also weighs less and runs for longer).
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-18 08:23 (UTC)
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Just out of curiosity, why do Gnome developers make comments to each other by creating new entries on their own blogs?

For example, instead of posting a comment here, fejj created a new blog entry (http://primates.ximian.com/~fejj/blog/archives/000043.html). And then Joe replied by creating a blog entry of his own (http://joeshaw.org/2006/02/17/381).

Sure it's all aggregated on Planet GNOME (http://planet.gnome.org/) but why should I have to visit yet-another-site to get the entire conversation? Seems a little confusing to me. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious :-)
From:[info]trs80 [typekey.com]
Date:2006-02-18 09:28 (UTC)
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A lot of blogs don't have comment systems set up, for various reasons - spam, extra complexity, and that anyone wanting to comment can set up their own blog anyway.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-19 06:38 (UTC)
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Right, but this blog *does* have comments enabled. So why not comment here?
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-18 10:04 (UTC)

OT: Fixed font in gnome-terminal

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Hey Davyd,

this is slightly off-topic, but I'll ask anyway:
How did you make gnome-terminal use the "Fixed" font, as it can be seen on the screenshot? I never managed to use other than truetype fonts in Gnome...

Thanks!
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2006-02-18 13:45 (UTC)

Re: OT: Fixed font in gnome-terminal

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You need to convince fontconfig to list the font. By default, fontconfig is configured to not list bitmapped fonts. On Ubuntu Breezy (seems to be working on Dapper too) I used this file (you install it in the directory given in the comment). I then had to copy the fixed font of my choice (eg. 6x13.pcf.gz) into my ~/.fonts directory, else it would choose extra wide fonts for some reason I never worked out.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2006-02-20 22:16 (UTC)

i915

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I knows it not a benchmark but are you sure you have 3d support on your i915? How many fps with glxgears? I've heard of 3000, and if so i'll also upgrade to dapper.
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