Ubuntu 9.10 impressions, extra packages.

I updated my main laptop to Ubuntu 9.10 on it’s release. It called for a fresh install as this laptop get’s a lot of crap installed left right and centre and an upgrade was not going to clean it up. (Apache, Nginx and Lighttpd, tomcat, netbeans all installed and starting on bootup, argh, plus many self compiled packages I installed without keeping track of.)

The only bugs I have been hit by was #446146. A Huawei E169 USB here modem only shows up as a memory card reader. Quick install of one of the kernel packages listed fixed this for me though.

A PC that after upgrade was trying to detect the harddrives as part of fakeraid setup and would fail to boot. Booted with the previous kernel, removed dmraid, and rebooted and she’s all good.

And gscan2pdf needed three packages from Jaunty to save as PDF again:

• libmagickcore1_6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb
• libmagickwand1_6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb
• perlmagick_6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb

I am really impressed with the direction that to boot theming is taking, well done Scott and team. Nvidia black redraw issues have gone away too. Sound is working better for me. Easier to select the speakers I want to output to. Havn’t tried Ubuntu One yet as most of my family is already using dropbox. Will probably try it for backing up some app data though.

The nvidia-settings tool would not save my settings for two monitor to xorg.conf as it could not parse it. So I instead just replaced the Screen Section in xorg.conf with the following and the extra monitor is auto detected and expanded to now:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP, CRT"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
     SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I still have to work out how to slow down my mouse further with X as the slowest I can set it to in Gnome is still to fast at times.

And incase anybody like to compare notes, these are the packages I have installed/removed in the first couple of days (some from PPA’s, etc).

Installed:

cowbell
bash-completion
vim
vim-gnome
screen
mc
gwibber
inkscape
chromium
virtualbox-3.0
gvim
fontypython
nautilus-dropbox
conky
wine1.2
cups-pdf
gnome-do
shutter
libnss3-tools
gstm
gscan2pdf
nmap
thewidgetfactory
agave

Removed:

latex-xft-fonts
ttf-thai-tlwg
ttf-kacst
ttf-indic-fonts-core
ttf-lao
ttf-wqy-zenhei
ttf-vlgothic
ttf-unfonts-core
f-spot

I removed the list of fonts to see 1) what would happen, 2) my default font list was cluttered & 3) I can’t understand any of those languages anyway.