After installing from a live CD where there was no problem with the network, I was supprised to boot a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx, with no network access. Fair enough, I thought probably just a one off, my PC. However after my work mate also had trouble with the network after a fresh install where the network was working on the live cd before hand I decided that something must be afoot.
Anyways this is how I fixed my network problem, hopefully it'll help someone else!
- Edit /etc/network/interfaces and remove all traces of eth0 (remove both lines)
- My Network Manager had failed to start at all so to manage the network connections open up System > Preferences > Network Connections
- Add a new wired connection. I copied the mac address of my adapter in, although I'm not sure this actually matters. Click Apply and Save your new connection.
- Reboot
All being well you should have network-manager running, with a live network connection.
Just a quick one. I've recently purchased an additional card to go in my Ubuntu machine, but my cards when set up in SLI were running very hot.
Using the information found here I was able to stick one GPU into auto fan mode, however the second GPU would stay at a fixed value and be overheating.
Looking at the man page for nvclock I found that you can use a command line switch to list and control individual GPUs.
First install nvclock and nvclock-gtk
sudo apt-get install nvclock nvclock-gtk
Secondly open up nvclock-gtk
sudo nvclock_gtk
You may need to set a fan speed under 'Hardware Monitor' for each GPU, after you've done this use the following commands
nvclock -s
This command gives a list of all the (nvidia) GPUs connected to the system.
nvclock -c 1 -f -F auto
nvclock -c 2 -f -F auto
Repeat the above command for each GPU you want to be put in auto mode. You should now see in nvclock-gtk the fan speeds, under 'Hardware Monitoring' adjusting up and down, automatically on there own.
If you want this done automatically at login then you can add the commands (one at a time unfortunately, unless you make a script) to your sessions System > Preferences > Startup Application as shown here
I have an Olympus DM-20 which I use to record stuff from my amateur dramatics group, just recently I recorded a script read through of Thoroughly Modern Millie and needed to chop up the read-through by scene. Ubuntu Linux doesn't support .dss files natively so I needed to convert them. A bit of googling lead me to believe that I'd need to convert it using a program under wine. Below is how I got it all to work, hopefully it will help someone!
Things you will need:
To Install:
- Install wine from the repositories
sudo apt-get install wine
You should be able to Right Click and Open with Wine Windows Program Loader.
Using the same methodology as above right click and open with Wine Windoes Program Loader.
Install as above. Run the program, add the files, choose your output type and location and hit convert!
Bang, you're done.
Information sourced from Google and the ubuntu forums I couldn't initially get Swift working because I didn't have the C++ libraries installed hence my repost!
For those of you that don’t know I use Ubuntu as my main operating system; at home, at work and on my laptop.
I still however have applications, mostly games, that I still have to keep a windows install handy for. At the moment at home I dual boot between windows vista and Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.
With all the advancement in virtualisation technology recently I thought I’d take a few of them for a spin and see if I could get any decent games to run on them. The ideal situation would have been being able to boot up into Ubuntu double click a shortcut and let the virtual machine present the game without the teletubbie xp background.
My main game of choice at the moment is Oblivion which at the time of writing is a few years old so you might have been excused for thinking that virtual machines would have the technology avaliable to them to either pass the 3D rendering to the host GPU or to at least emulate a 3D device in some way.
It appears in practice we couldn’t be further away.
I tried a windows xp virtual machine with 2GB of memory and 128 MB of video memory and oblivion crashed out with an error. To be fair to VirtualBox its seemless mode was very good apart from one glitch in drawing my background and I was impressed with its seemless mouse interaction between host and guest OS.
I also tried to install Paraelles but the program itself wouldn’t actualy install. This was a shame because for the googling I’ve done paraelles seems to be the solution closest to having 3D acceleration working. I would have also though being a relatively smaller player in the VM market paraelles would want to make sure their solution installs on as many platforms and distributions as possible.
I did find a patch to fix the problem I encountered with paraelles but by the time I had done all that googling I didn’t have it in me to be bothered to patch and recompile. In a tough market like virtualisation products need to just work or people will just move on to another solution that will. Perhaps paraelles should sit up and take note? (according to my googling installing paraelles on ubuntu has always required more than average user knowledge to install so this is nothing new…)
For fairness I also tried installing Oblivion via Wine and Crossover games, neither of which worked.
I guess my days of dual booting will continue for a while to come yet, or until virtualisation solutions provide proper 3D acceleration support or the devs at wine fix the bugs that affect direct x games.