Computing/Linux/Ubuntu

Reference

• Ubuntu Documentation
• Ubuntu Wiki
• Ubuntu Guide
  • Ubuntu Feisty
• Ubuntu Forums
• Ubuntu Daily
• Ubuntu Geek - Tips, Howtos, Tutorials and Articles about Ubuntu Linux

Installation notes

• Ubuntu How-To from alma.edu
• Ubuntu How-To from cornell.edu
• My Ubuntu Installation
• Skype or use Medibuntu repository
• ATI fglrx proprietary driver
• Proprietary drivers in Feisty
• ATI & Kernel 2.6 from ArchLinux wiki
• Troubleshooting
  • Problem: unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENODEV", cannot init AGP
  • Solution from ATI

There seems to be no DRI on Intel 875P chipset, suggestion: add agp=try_unsupported to kernel cmdline

Success story 1: add UseInternalAgp" = "no" to XF86Config-4

Success story 2: disable the internal AGP support of the ATI driver in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (UseInternalAGPGART to "no") and enable the intel-agp (and agpgart) module in the kernel

Success story 3: On my machine things won't work if I use the Kernel's AGPGART-driver; XF86Config-4 has the following in the "Device" section: Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"

Suggestion: your aperture area isn't properly set up and that's a kernel problem

• Hitachi CML174SXW in xorg.conf:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "CML174SXW"
HorizSync 64.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 75.0

# V-freq: 75.00 Hz // h-freq: 80.42 KHz
Modeline "1280x1024" 151.83 1280 1360 1544 1888 1024 1024 1027 1072

• Additional software repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list:

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported.  May contain illegal packages.  Use at own risk.)
## Medibuntu - Ubuntu 7.04 "feisty fawn" (Acroread, Google Earth, etc)
## Please report any bug on https://launchpad.net/products/medibuntu/+bugs
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ feisty free non-free
#deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ feisty free non-free

## CANONICAL COMMERCIAL REPOSITORY (Hosted on Canonical servers, not Ubuntu
## servers. RealPlayer10, Opera, DesktopSecure and more to come.) 
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main

Miscellaneous

Feisty Fawn 7.04 beta:

• On the Desktop: GNOME 2.18, OpenOffice.org 2.2.0rc3, X.org 7.2
• On the Server: Apache 2.2, PostgreSQL 8.2, PHP 5.2.1, LTSP 5.0
• "Under the hood": GCC 4.1.2, glibc 2.5, Linux 2.6.20, Python 2.5