Stories tagged as "Solution"

The holy guide to installing Ubuntu AND keeping your WindowsXP installation

Posted by liquilife on 09/16 at 02:59 PM

Installing Ubuntu on a formatted machine may be easy but what if you just want to “play” with this new fascinating OS and retain the security of having WindowsXP? The solution is easy of course. Dual boot. This allows you to select an Operating System to boot into when your PC is restarted or turned on. This is no easy task come to find out if you’ve never done this before. Well, with no further adoo here is the holy guide on doing just this:

Pre-install checklist and instructions (Very important!):
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p17.htm
Setting up dual boot and installing Ubuntu:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p3.htm

The ubuntu-6.06-alternate-i386.iso for the text based installer is what this guide is mostly about. It allows more options for people who want to have more of a customised installation.This does require a unique release of Ubuntu not found (I didn’t find it anyways) at ubuntu.com. For my purpose I found ubuntu-6.06-alternate-i386.iso for download and then burned it to a CD using Nero. Just be sure NOT to burn this ISO as any type of Data. Just do a search for “ubuntu-6.06-alternate-i386.iso” on google and you’ll find plenty of websites to download it from.

Just remember, take your time and research this thouroughly before following through. This guide worked for me but I cannot gaurentee your success on your PC. That would be just down outright dumb of me. smile

Posted by liquilife on 09/16 at 02:59 PM | 0 comments | Permalink
Tagged under: solution, windows, ubuntu

ATI Xpress 200 now works with Ubuntu

Posted by liquilife on 09/16 at 03:08 PM

I had some serious issues with my Radeon ATI Xpress 200 graphics card displaying only a resolution of 640x480 in Ubuntu. How annoying. Searching all around the forums revealed some pretty crazy hacks that didnt make a whole lot of sense to the new Ubuntu user such as myself. What I did not learn from searching is that ATI had released a propiertary driver specifically for Linux which included the fix for my graphics card. Here is the step by step guide to downloading and installing this driver:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=204910
Remember to put in the commands using the Terminal. This may sound like a dumb thing to say to a lot of you but please remember some of us are so new that we don’t know what the hell a “Terminal” is.  smile

Posted by liquilife on 09/16 at 03:08 PM | 0 comments | Permalink
Tagged under: solution, ubuntu

Wacom board finally working in Ubuntu!

Posted by liquilife on 09/29 at 05:04 AM

Sometimes when I’m trying to achieve an elegant setup a simple elegant solution is needed. This is the case for getting my wacom board setup in Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake. More on that in a moment. After upgrading my wife to a larger wacom board I inherited her old, smaller wacom board. At the time I just did not think that a wacom board would be useful to me but as it turns out I was very wrong. I write left handed and mouse with my right hand and this played into quite a sweet setup while on Windows XP and the wacom board. Having my keyboard armed with the wacom board to the left and the mouse to the right I was able to switch back and forth between mouse and wacom board quite easily in a very comfortable manner. I found that using a wacom board while using Macromedia.. err.. Adobe Fireworks worked beautifully. I also found that after a long day of mousing it was just simply comfortable to switch over to the stylus feel of the wacom board for a while.

After I made my recent switch over to Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake I quickly noticed that wacom support was not built in. Visiting wacom.com simply referred me to The Linux Wacom Project for assistance with getting the proper Linux drivers. I was immediately confused by this page. The “How to” and instructions made no sense to the new Ubuntu user such as myself. After some investigating over at the Ubuntu forums I was able to find my easy wacom board sulution to installing the wacom board. I am now, once again, a happy wacom board user!

Under Ubuntu Dapper, installing an USB Wacom tablet is straightforward. Remember to plug in your tablet before you boot; it makes things simpler.

With the version of the Linux Wacom driver (0.7.2) in Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, if you unplug you tablet, it won’t function when you plug it back in and you will have to restart X. For this reason, it is best to leave the tablet plugged in. This limitation will be removed when the 0.7.4 version of the driver is included in Ubuntu.

1. Using Synaptic package manager1, check if the packages xserver-xorg-input-wacom and wacom-tools are already installed - if not install them. If you prefer using the command line, you can also execute :

    

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-wacom wacom-tools

2. Save a copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

    

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

then edit it with the command line :

    

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and change all /dev/wacom occurences into /dev/input/wacom (created by wacom-tools udev scripts), then save the file.

You should be ready to go after you have restarted X. Remember to configure the “Extended input devices” in your graphics application, however you can already check if it’s working by moving your stylus on the tablet : the mouse cursor should go through the whole screen.

Posted by liquilife on 09/29 at 05:04 AM | 0 comments | Permalink
Tagged under: solution, configure, wacom, ubuntu

Outlook 2007

Posted by liquilife on 11/13 at 12:49 AM

I recently decided to give Outlook 2007 a go. Having used Outlook 2003 with Gmail I was pretty excited for this huge update. I, however, ran into a strange issue. I COULD NOT get Gmail configured correctly. My username and password was denied from the Gmail pop and smtp server. After many hours of searching I stumbled across this posting in Google Groups that recomended you visit the Google captcha unlock page. The what? Anyways, the URL was definitely google and the page included a captcha form. I filled it out and Outlook 2007 downloaded my Gmail and continued to work like a charm. The question remains for now as to how my account got locked in the first place. Strange indeed.

Why am I posting this? I am sure this will happen to others as Office 2007 becomes more widespread. It is my hopes that when you search Gmail issues this will be a quick solution.

Google Captcha unlock page
New group posting

Posted by liquilife on 11/13 at 12:49 AM | 0 comments | Permalink
Tagged under: solution, outlook, software, gmail, configure