Hardy Heron Beta on T61P
Hardy Heron beta was released yesterday.
I find Ubuntu’s double clicking on the
.isoimage I want to burn and inserting a blank disk more intuitive than OS X’s Finder => Applications => Utilities => Disk Utility => Burn then selecting the image I want to burn and then inserting a blank disk. What’s worse, is that the more “obvious” path of double clicking on the.isoand selecting File => Burn to Disc doesn’t do what you expect. Also, why is it Disk Utility but Burn to Disc?I tried the amd64 image first. Could only install in Safe Video mode (800x600), and when done, it told me that the NVDIA adaptor was required but not enabled, and I could not select a higher resolution. Also wifi didn’t work. FAIL.
Trying again with the i386 image, and video, wifi, sound, and suspend all work.
Fonts on my website on this version of Ubuntu on the supplied version of Firefox on a T61 display are still suboptimal. Decide it is time to do something about it. The fonts on Mark's site look fine to me on both Windows XP with Firefox 2 and Ubuntu 8.04 with Firefox 3 on the same display, so I steal one line from Mark’s css. Refresh. Done.
Haven’t played around much, but the following leaves one with a broken version of Ruby gems:
sudo aptitude install rubygems sudo gem update --system
Here's the fix.
System => Administration => Hardware Drivers => check NVIDIA; Enable; Close; Reboot; Suspend; Resume; see blank screen; Hard Boot; uncheck NVIDIA; Reboot.