My Little Ubuntu Guide

I’m beginning the build of Gutsy tonight. Yes, thought I’d get my butt in gear! The crazy week has slowed down finally, so I can focus a bit more on this project.

Again, if any of you have suggestions, don’t hesitate to make them! Just comment below.

Cheers!

John Westbrook

P.S. There will be an outage planned for this site, starting tomorrow night, and going into Friday mid-day. The reason? I’m replacing the WordPress site with a more robust backend to handle all the content. It’s actually going to be really cool, I’m going to seperate everything into much easier to navigate sections, such as a “how to” section, a “scripts” section, a “Download” section, the blog, and a forum! It will take anywhere between 5 hours to 15 hours for the transfer of content and design to finish. Unfortunately it’s rather complicated to create the site offline, so everything will be done online.

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Ok, I’m not being totally lazy. I’ve just been pursuing some other interests, like making a living! Man this week was busy! I did a ton of stuff including some information product launches. So I’m sorry I’ve been off the job here, but I’m going to get back into things and start on that Gutsy CD.

By the way, reports of the CD working on HPs also!

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The new CD is live and is at:
http://www.mylittleubuntuguide.com/iso/livecd.iso

Tested and it works great!

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For those of you who don’t want to wait or download another CD iso, here’s a quick guide to get you “updated” to the new features of the new CD! Keep in mind this will replace your current xorg.conf and sources.list files. Also, after it finishes it will automatically reboot your PC. Here’s how you do it:

1. Open a terminal and go into your home directory, then download the updateme script:
cd ~
wget http://www.mylittleubuntuguide.com/files/updateme.sh

2. Make it executable:
sudo chmod +x updateme.sh

3. Run as root:
sudo ./updateme.sh

NOTE: You will be required to press ENTER at one point, when it asks you for the location of your kernel files for the Modem build. Just hit ENTER and the script will finish.

4. After if finishes, it will clean itself up and reboot

After it reboots you should now have Compiz-Fusion working, Horizontal Scrolling working with the touchpad, and suspend working!

Please comment your success or bugs!

NOTES:
1. This script does the exact same thing the new finishup script does. So if you just installed from the CD, the FinishUp script will take care of all the above, no need to do both. If you installed and ran the FinishUp script 3 or 4 days or more ago, you need this.

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While I’m working to get the new CD working properly, I’ve updated the FinishUp script, so when you use the current CD to install and run the FinishUp script from the Desktop, you’ll get Compiz-Fusion and all the other fixes mentioned yesterday.

Also, while you wait, enjoy these shots of my system and just a couple of the cool things Fusion does:

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UPDATE: As usual, ran into some snags. Now I’m getting a blank screen on boot!!! WTF?!? Anyway, no biggy, I’ll try something else and I could have missed a step…

Ok, after testing the new CD seems to work without a hitch! Yeah!!!

Now, I received a post question on UbuntuForums.org from Shaun suggesting I include compiz-fusion. Apparently I’ve been so caught up in other projects I’ve missed the incredible new strides taken in compiz! This blows the plain old Beryl out of the water!!!!

So, I’m including it on the new CD! Thanks Shaun!

Along with that the new CD will also do the following:

Fix Suspend Problem (Suspend works!!!)
Fix Horizontal Scrolling of Touchpad
Fix Blank Screen on Some Systems During Live CD Boot

If you find anything else broken please report it ASAP. I’m going to test my new CD today and it will be available for download by this afternoon.

Cheers!

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Ok, for those of you who have been having a problem with the CD not booting and going to a black screen, even with the ATI drivers, try this ISO out:

Click Here

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The CD is not working for some of you 6400/1501 users and I think I know why. Recently John, an Ubuntu user trying to get the CD working, tried it. It didn’t boot. But, when he selected the VGA option it did.

Now, when the Live CD boots it creates the Xorg.conf file on the fly. So here’s my theory: The script that creates the xorg file doesn’t work on some systems/resolutions.

So the fix would be to hard code the xorg file into the CD and remove the dexconf script completely from the picture. I’m going to try it tonight and will upload the CD image. Once it’s up I need some of you to be “guinea pigs” for this test. Any takers please email me!

Thanks!

John

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After some complaints about the md5 files not matching up, I’ve created new ones. Also please note that the DVD and CD ISO’s are moved to a new location:

Dell 6400 Ubuntu Live CD Image: http://www.mylittleubuntuguide.com/iso/livecd.iso
Matching MD5 File: http://www.mylittleubuntuguide.com/iso/livecd.iso.md5

Dell 6400 Ubuntu Live DVD Image: http://www.mylittleubuntuguide.com/iso/livedvd.iso
Matching MD5 File: http://www.mylittleubuntuguide.com/iso/livedvd.iso.md5

Cheers!

John

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