Talk:Ubuntu Edgy Installation Guide

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Contents 1 Sign your Posts 2 Re-add the latest driver install howto 3 Possible Article Clean-up Discussion -- PLEASE READ 4 SMP kernel? 5 Thanks !! 6 the best ever guide keep it up!! 7 IBM T60 ATI X1300 Core Duo 8 This is not an installation guide, where is it?

[edit] Sign your Posts

You can sign your talk posts with four tildes. example: ~~~~ -- Mooninite 09:28, 15 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Re-add the latest driver install howto

Would it be possible that I could readd the howto instructions for the most recent ATI drivers (as of now, 8.32.5)? That was the reason I really liked this page- it made it easy to install the latest and greatest drivers, and now someone has gone and erased it...(yes, I know it is still in the history)

I added that particular section back, but ideally there should be *one* method to install the driver. The two methods were the entire reason why I rewrote this page. How could anyone ever figure out how to install the driver? As always, feel free to edit it as you wish... Mooninite 18:15, 3 January 2007 (CST)

Ah, OK. I see your point - would it be possible to add another page with the latest and greatest drivers, or am I violating some wikirule that I don't know about? compwiz18 13:54, 21 January 2007 (JST)

This page already has the "latest and greatest driver" section. Why do we need another page? :) Mooninite 08:41, 26 January 2007 (CST)

[edit] Possible Article Clean-up Discussion -- PLEASE READ

I want to clean this page up a little. This is the most trafficked page on the wiki and it looks disgraceful.

1. Needs a numbered structure for easy, no-brainer instructions
2. Troubleshooting section needs to be deleted. take it to the troubleshooting page
3. Shorter header names. We don't need a paragraph.

Please feel free to comment about the page and/or start cleaning it up. I will start clean-up in a few days.Mooninite 10:16, 12 December 2006 (CST)

I have made some initial clean-up changes. Feel free to add comments and/or improve what I have done. Mooninite 15:29, 21 December 2006 (CST)

As a rank Ubuntu noob, the section "Enable restricted Repository" needs clarification. I can certainly edit that file but don't know what to change (it's not obvious to me - add "enable" to a line? remove "restricted" from a line? etc.) This is for Edgy 6.10. Thanks for the guide! -Mike G, 12/29/06

I would assume that you need to uncomment (remove a "#" symbol) to enable it. However I only run Fedora Core. Mooninite 13:38, 29 December 2006 (CST)

This is a great guide - my first driver installation for a noob. But speaking of article cleanup, how about a section about file cleanup: i.e. what should we do to clean up our desktop after performing this operation? Is it safe to delete all the files and packages there? I've got 4 .deb files, the downloaded .run file and a .changes file on my desktop now. Can I safely delete these or should I keep them somewhere? Thanks!

I would save your fglrx packages in case you need to reinstall. You can safely delete any other installation file (ex. the ATI package) -- Mooninite 00:23, 2 April 2007 (CDT)

[edit] SMP kernel?

Are the method 2 instructions appropriate for an SMP kernel? I've got a laptop with a Core Duo.

Yes, it works both on plain and SMP kernel. SpeedyGonsales 07:55, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Thanks !!

I saw no other place where I could that you all for the guide, so am adding it here - Thanks :) it works easily... (ATI mobility radeon x1300, 128 mb ram on a dell inspiron 1505) -- Varun

[edit] the best ever guide keep it up!!

I had problems with the new driver 8.29 and reverted to the old one. Still cant run beryl, so I think the best thing for me would be to wait till things are finalized and more stable versions come up.Till then bye bye XGL.

[edit] IBM T60 ATI X1300 Core Duo

This install worked for me with no issues on my IBM T60 with Ati X1300. Previously I had all kinds of strange video issues. I do have one strange issue still if anybody can offer any ideas or has the same issue. I dual boot this laptop with XP and ubuntu 6.10 . This laptop is supposed to come with Ati x1300 video card with 64 MB video ram according to the IBM specs for my laptop (based on its product ID 2623-D6U). Yet windows XP shows that this video card has 512 MB ram (it always did this, I have the latest ATI driver, latest IBM bios, all latest updates). Now in ubuntu the ATI Control app shows 64 MB ram. So what do I really have? Go figure!

-Manny Marinho

[edit] This is not an installation guide, where is it?

Sorry, folks, I've used every linux distro under the sun, but when I went looking for a step-by-step on how to install Ubuntu, this "installation guide" is anything but. It's so far off the mark it's not funny. The first bullet talks about video drivers. Come on, there must be something better than this. Looks like I'll have to go digging far more deeply, instead of an Ubuntu guide I'll need to figure out why gparted is so dumbed-down, and how to get the advanced interface to come up so I can configure LVM. :-(

Sorry, not bashing developers, not having installed it yet, I could not