Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ‘Precise Pangolin’ discussion thread

[Will S]

Originally Posted by ^catalyst

I've had good success getting printers to work under Ubuntu, what is the one you're having difficulty with?

Canon MG6150....... I have it wirelessly connected to my Router Modem. I have installed drivers and can get it to print but the colours are way off mark. Have installed Libre Office Writer on my Win7 machine and just copy it to a USB and put in on that machine.

Originally Posted by FalconGT

Can't you just use google cloud print ?
Or sync with google drive, dropbox etc.

????????


no idea on any of that


Anyway as I dont print that much its not that much a problem BUT it would be nice if Canon could supply drivers / software on the included CD

[IKT]

Originally Posted by cleary

That's a pretty poor excuse.

Yeah, I've seen it happen quite often though which makes me sad.

Originally Posted by cleary

In just about any other project I know of, somebody actively working on and contributing code/features/patches in this manner would
a) be treated with a little higher priority (you have to encourage contributors)
b) often be given direct commit access to the project

If you contribute in the right places, unity for example, is where your example is what actually happens, outside of unity is a completely different landscape.

[tr3nton]

Ubuntu App Showdown: http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...php?p=14471590

[elvis]

Started my new job last Monday, part of which involves doing a Kubuntu 12.04LTS workstation rollout for a bunch of VFX artists.

I'm currently "eating my own dogfood" by running with KDE on the desktop for the first time in bloody ages. After a week of using it, it's growing on me. There's certainly a lot of design decisions that show a fantastic level of maturity compared to Unity, however there are a handful of things that just bug me (the default setup includes a shitload of notifications about things I just don't care about).

Places where it really shines are ease of getting to settings for things. FOr example when your battery is low, clicking the indicator brings up a menu with buttons that offer to take you to the power management and screen brightness management. There are similar examples all through KDE. Particularly for new users, these simple, relevant shortcuts are a great idea.

Kubuntu 12.04LTS includes KDE 4.8, which is leaps and bounds more stable and functional than the 4.1 build I used last time. I think if I were trying to sell a Linux desktop to a die hard Windows 7 user, this would be the desktop environment I'd suggest.

[f3n1x]

Heh, i just "upgraded" my 10.10 ubuntu XMBC media center to 12.04, and it utterly broke my sandy bridge intel graphics, hdmi out wont do more that 1280x1024 regardless of what xrandr --newmode, X -configure or xorg.conf tricks i try, it has a specified maximum resolution, the ubuntu display control panel calls the monitor "Unknown", it loads three different video drivers (intel, vesa and something else).

I (as i said) tried a "working" xorg conf from the xbmc forums, got "Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode" in 4 pixel font crap, for a media center this is a massive regression, worked fine in 10.x.

My current todo list in order of preference:

* Switch to VGA
* Install an Nvidia 8600GT i have laying around, (VGA/DVI only )

Not happy, anyone got experience with?

[elvis]

Originally Posted by f3n1x

I (as i said) tried a "working" xorg conf from the xbmc forums

Have you tried with no xorg.conf file?

I haven't needed to provide an xorg.conf file for about 2 years now. If you're using 100% free software drivers and/or KMS, it should all autodetect.

At time of writing there are 6 laptops in my house all running 12.04, and all with no xorg.conf. The newest is a week-old Dell Vostro Sandy Bridge laptop as well.

[f3n1x]

Originally Posted by elvis

Have you tried with no xorg.conf file?

I haven't needed to provide an xorg.conf file for about 2 years now. If you're using 100% free software drivers and/or KMS, it should all autodetect.

At time of writing there are 6 laptops in my house all running 12.04, and all with no xorg.conf. The newest is a week-old Dell Vostro Sandy Bridge laptop as well.

No xorg is the default, so yeah.

[elvis]

Originally Posted by f3n1x

No xorg is the default, so yeah.

Enable SSH on the box, boot it up, and grab /var/log/Xorg.0.log . Post it in here and we'll take a look.

Also, the output of lspci, if you could.

[cleary]

Have you tried with a blank OS install (live cd)?
There may be some junk floating around from your previous installs - also, did you upgrade in one step from 10.10 to 12.04?

[clonex]

Had a few rain days from work this week so bit the bullet and decided to replace 10.04 with 12.04. I was actually suprised wireless works out of the box now and no graphics card issues on my m11x

Now to get MYOB running thru virtualbox

[f3n1x]

Originally Posted by cleary

Have you tried with a blank OS install (live cd)?
There may be some junk floating around from your previous installs - also, did you upgrade in one step from 10.10 to 12.04?

Nah two step, for the time being i've just thrown in a 8600GT, its not just a media center its a vm server as well so i only reboot when neccesary, so i'll test a fresh liveusb next time it needs a reboot for new kernel image, and if it has the same issue i'll post the log.

[FOXH0UND]

Installing 12.04 on my netbook atm

[daehenoc]

I've recently started at a new job, and of course it's a Windows environment Sharepoint, AD, the works. Because a lot of my documentation and workflow uses Sharepoint and (oh. my. god.) Lotus notes via the native Windows app, I'm going to stick with Win7 on my work laptop for a while, but I do have 12.04 installed.

In the meantime, I've figured out the server names for the file server etc and successfully crafted the mount commands. I've found that my files are being compressed on the file server (they show up in blue on the mapped drive) - I admit that I haven't tried, but will that cause problems accessing those compressed files from Linux?

[phreeky82]

I installed 12.04 for the first time a few days ago, have been using 11.04 on my main machines. Despite a couple of days playing around I have been unable to enjoy Unity. What a stinking pile of shit.

I've put gnome on for now however having not used KDE for a number of years now I think it's worth giving that a go again. I'm open to any recommendations. Am awfully close to installing Mint.

[IKT]

Originally Posted by phreeky82

I installed 12.04 for the first time a few days ago, have been using 11.04 on my main machines.

How do you go from the most unstable version of Ubuntu ever released to 12.04 and hate it? This doesn't make any sense at all. It's like you were using the old Gnome 2 GUI included in Ubuntu 11.04 and didn't realise you can easily install it again in 12.04 with sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback ... either that or you're the only person in the world that thinks the unstable pile of crap Unity was in 11.04 was any good...
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