Howto: Enabling DVD in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, IT in General, Linux, Operating System
This is completely illegal in the United States due to some copyright law. This site does not condone illegal activity; thus, if you’re in US, you’re on your own when you do the following.
Run the following command from the Terminal:
sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
You only need to this ONE time only.
Fixed: Slow GUI (Compiz) on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) using ATI Radeon X300 Mobility
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, Linux, Operating System
I finally managed to fix the issue as described in: Slow GUI (Compiz) in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) using ATI Radeon X300 Mobility
The solution revolves around:
- Download and install binary driver from ATI
- Remove the MESA driver
- Force aticonfig to renew the xorg.conf
- Make sure AIGLX and Composite is On/Enabled
Removing MESA Driver
Run the command:
sudo apt-get remove xorg-xgl
Run aticonfig
Run the command:
sudo aticonfig --initial -f
Check AIGLX & Compositing are enabled
- Run the command:
sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- Search for the keywords ‘AIGLX’ and ‘Composite’.
- AIGLX should be under ServerFlags section and the value should be ‘On’
Options AIGLX 'On'
- Composite should be under Extensions section and the value should be ‘Enable’
Options Composite 'Enable'
Slow GUI (Compiz) on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) using ATI Radeon X300 Mobility
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under IT in General, Linux, Operating System
I tried to install Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on my Dell Latitude D610 using the Wubi install method. Everything installs just fine, but I feel that the GUI is very slow. My Latitude D610 is using ATI Radeon X300 Mobility, which I think is not the best video card for Linux. Throughout my experience, Linux is more suited with the nVidia cards.
If anyone has every experienced running Windows XP using a VESA/default graphic card driver at high resolution, that’s how it feels. For those who are not familiar, it feels that the screen refreshes very slowly. For example, when I open up terminal, I can see rectangular dotted outline zooming out before the window pops out. After that it slowly draws the window decoration. Another example, when I scroll a web page on Firefox, the top part of the next page would be drawn first, then half a second later, the lower part is drawn. It is very annoying and almost rendering the GUI non-usable. FYI, the GUI is set with visual effects set to “None”.
I have tried to install linux-restricted-modules, xorg-driver-fglrx, xserver-xgl and the official ATI drivers but to no avail. I have run a check on the fglrxinfo and it’s fine. I even tried the glxgears, but only getting about 60fps.
I am still trying to fix the issue, and will update what I found out later on a separate blog entry.
UPDATE:Fixed HOWTO