Well, I for the best some week, I've been working on installing Ubuntu on my PC, and here is my story.
On the first whack on the installation, the partitioning gone berserk and would not continue at all. Next thing I know, I've spent some 2 hours trying to find a solution to this problem before realizing that I should really defrag my disk. Somehow, I played around with the file system long enough since a week before the installation to really mess up the fragmentation on the disk.
So, the second time I popped in the disk the installation actually worked. I rebooted and came upon.... a blank screen saying error with xserver and a close button. Clicking on the close button did not help at all as I can't do anything after that, even Ctrl-Alt-F 1-6. Frustration ensued. Taking a look at the forums, not much help came up as most of the problems apparently happened during an upgrade not a clean install. Seeing that fixing this is futile, I tried installtion again.
The third time I popped in the live CD, I crossed my finger and hoped for the best. I first did a mem and a disk check, both came out great. The installtion proceeded without errors. This time when I restarted... nothing happened. It just showed a blank screen... I sort of just panicked a bit and went out looking for a solution. Maybe I just asked all the wrong questions but couldn't find an answer.
Fast forward a day later, I finally stumble upon a site saying that I should try and disable compiz fusion first if my GNOME isn't working. Taking that into advice:
Solved...sudo apt-get remove compiz
sudo apt-get remove compiz-core
Now, I get to see the lovely coffee stain desktop picture...
After two or three days of messing with it, I realized that my /home partition was not standing up to Firefox . I needed to repartition again. But I didn't want to waste another CD getting GParted, so I once again used the Live CD. Now I realized that the Live CD also can't display on my computer due to Compiz. A little messing around solved that problem and after 1 hour, finally enlarged my /home by a gigabyte.
Success.
I take it back. Two days later, I had problems running Eclipse. Couldn't even do a simple Scanner object, then a bit of research showed that I shouldn't use the built in java code. More research showed that I should install java from sun... only if I found that earlier without a 1 hour research. That taken care off, I was trying to installing dropbox, that still isn't working. It won't actually make a connection with the server and I don't have my files...*sigh* I thought "Hey! I can use that FAT32 partition of mine to create like an intermediary between the XP's dropbox and the Ubuntu's." Took me a while to mount the FAT32 as fstab was not edited...
Problems still occuring?
- Hibernation not working as good
- Shut downs are... at best inconsistent
- Suspends are not working
- 20% CPU usage when idle? (or maybe its just the monitoring app..?)
- Inability to use Compiz even though a Wubi installation allowed me too.
- Problems with my DVD player (probably hardware though)
-runiteking1
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Compiz is a piece of crap...edit your drivers til you get it finally working. I spent 2 weeks on that.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how you managed to fark up an Ubuntu install that many times. Mine went perfectly, so did the one on my other PC, and the one on my trash (literally) PC. Haha. Oh well, at least you are getting some familiarity with it.
ReplyDeleteAs for some of the problems you are having:
Erratic shutdown is most likely a courtesy of the ALSA hang introduced in 8.10. I have the same problem, just wait it out and use the power button for now. ;P
20% CPU usage at idle? Are you using Gnome's monitor app? Apparently that is ridiculously inaccurate. I heard that you should try htop.
sudo apt-get install htop
htop
Odd that Compiz won't work. Probably something with your drivers. Good luck have fun.
Don't give up, the more using Linux the better! :0