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Newbie incoming!

Postby DdotSpot » Fri May 07, 2010 7:31 pm

Hello everyone, its exciting to see a community of people passionate about their freedom in computing. I am a fairly new Linux user. I've got some (very little) experience with Linux. I've briefly used knoppix and mandrake in the past, but my busy lifestyle and laziness prevented me from sticking with it for too long. I understand the basic framework and theory behind Linux and can move around fairly proficiently.

I've come back with Ubuntu's 10.04 release and have spent some hours reading, experimenting, succeeding and failing and realized I need a community of like-minded folks to fellowship with and maybe help point me in the right direction when i get lost.

I've installed Lucid once, installed the generic nVidia drivers, the restricted software package(or so i thought), a few eyecandy packages, wine, mkv2vob, and a few other media packages, and noticed some serious laggy video and really screwed up trying to remove the eyecandy software myself.

So, now I'm back to square one, formatted and reinstalled Lucid. I've installed the recommended nvidia drivers and noticed that afterwards, the ubuntu splash screen when booting is a lower resolution and my videos are still choppy and unwatchable, however my wobbly windows are working great and my multiple desktop viewer shortcuts are working (windows key+E).

Now before I screw up anything else, I need to know where to start to get it working correctly. I'm not running on a newer system. Here is a lshw -short of my system. I'm supposed to have 2gb of RAM, but I think its only reading 1gb of it.

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H/W path            Device      Class          Description
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                                system         PP150AA-ABA SR1303WM NA510
/0                              bus            Kelut
/0/0                            memory         128KiB BIOS
/0/5                            processor      AMD Sempron(TheeMahn)   3000+
/0/5/9                          memory         128KiB L1 cache
/0/5/a                          memory         512KiB L2 cache
/0/1d                           memory         1GiB System Memory
/0/1d/0                         memory         1GiB DIMM DDR
/0/1d/1                         memory         DIMM [empty]
/0/100                          bridge         VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bri
/0/100/1                        bridge         VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1/0                      display        G73 [GeForce 7600 GS]
/0/100/8                        network        88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wire
/0/100/a                        communication  V.92 56K WinModem
/0/100/b                        bus            VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394
/0/100/f                        storage        VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller
/0/100/f.1          scsi0       storage        VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A
/0/100/f.1/0        /dev/sda    disk           41GB Maxtor 2F040L0
/0/100/f.1/0/1      /dev/sda1   volume         36GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/f.1/0/2      /dev/sda2   volume         1651MiB Extended partition
/0/100/f.1/0/2/5    /dev/sda5   volume         1651MiB Linux swap / Solaris part
/0/100/f.1/1        /dev/cdrom  disk           CDW/DVD TS-H492A
/0/100/f.1/1/0      /dev/cdrom  disk           
/0/100/f.1/0.1.0    /dev/sdb    disk           120GB WDC WD1200JB-00G
/0/100/f.1/0.1.0/1  /dev/sdb1   volume         111GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/10                       bus            VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/10.1                     bus            VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/10.2                     bus            VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/10.3                     bus            VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/10.4                     bus            USB 2.0
/0/100/11                       bridge         VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K
/0/100/11.5                     multimedia     VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Con
/0/100/11.6                     communication  AC'97 Modem Controller
/0/100/12           eth0        network        VT6102 [Rhine-II]
/0/1                scsi4       storage       
/0/1/0.0.0          /dev/sdc    disk           SCSI Disk
/0/1/0.0.1          /dev/sdd    disk           SCSI Disk
/0/1/0.0.2          /dev/sde    disk           SCSI Disk
/0/1/0.0.3          /dev/sdf    disk           SCSI Disk
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Re: Newbie incoming!

Postby 2hot6ft2 » Fri May 07, 2010 8:31 pm

DdotSpot wrote:So, now I'm back to square one, formatted and reinstalled Lucid. I've installed the recommended nvidia drivers and noticed that afterwards, the ubuntu splash screen when booting is a lower resolution and my videos are still choppy and unwatchable, however my wobbly windows are working great and my multiple desktop viewer shortcuts are working (windows key+E).

Now before I screw up anything else, I need to know where to start to get it working correctly. I'm not running on a newer system. Here is a lshw -short of my system. I'm supposed to have 2gb of RAM, but I think its only reading 1gb of it.

And what an entrance...had me laughing before the link even loaded. Welcome DdotSpot.

Splash screen resolution
System > Administration > Startup Manager
set the resolution and depth you want on the first tab and resolution again on the second tab.

(windows key+E) no, no, no we call that the super key and you can get a ubuntu sticker to put over the windows logo for free from here:
http://www.system76.com/article_info.php?articles_id=9

Speed things up some with this
Speed up Firefox by moving cache into RAM
http://www.ultimateeditionoz.com/forum/ ... f=23&t=216

I'm sure there's more info. on the way
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EDIT: 1+1 = 2 right. ;) It's there.
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/0/1d/0 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR
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Re: Newbie incoming!

Postby DdotSpot » Mon May 10, 2010 10:06 am

Thanks 2hot for your response! Good to meet you. I'm currently in the process of downloading Ultimate Edition 2.6. This will be my first Ultimate Edition experience so wish me luck!

Thanks everyone for just being here.
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Re: Newbie incoming!

Postby 2hot6ft2 » Mon May 10, 2010 11:55 am

DdotSpot wrote:Thanks 2hot for your response! Good to meet you. I'm currently in the process of downloading Ultimate Edition 2.6. This will be my first Ultimate Edition experience so wish me luck!

Thanks everyone for just being here.

You're welcome, and good luck. Glad to have you here. ;)
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