Operating Systems: Linux

[s0bv1ou5lyd3sprt]

Just installed Ubuntu 9.04 and having some problems. No audio and choppy video. Guessing it's just a driver issue, but I'm not finding any help. I installed the 64 bit version and after some reading I'm seeing that it may be a better idea to go with the 32 bit. For the little speed increase you gain, there are many more problems that go with it. Anyway my video card is a 9800 pro all in wonder and the sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1. The driver I found for my video card just said Linux, it didn't have the exact distributions it worked with. When I went to install it I got an error. I'm back on my Windows partition currently downloading the 32 bit version to see if that helps at all, but any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: Solved. Went to 32 bit version and it fixed my video problem. And the audio was just me being retarded. It was reading from my on board audio. Disabled it in bios, problem solved.

[satandole666]

Ubuntu 9.04 has been a pretty buggy release. My video on the laptop has about 1/2 the performance of XP. ATI doesn't support older chipsets in linux (I have an rv200 mobility 7500 in my IBM T30) so I am forced to use the generic drivers. I've got it tweaked to make it usable, but it is far from ideal. I still have to turn video quality down on streaming videos just to get a full framerate.

I hate to say it, but Windows XP > Ubuntu 9.04 at the moment.

[Gary_Busey]

ATI isn't good with Ubuntu, or Linux for that matter. I'm running 9.04 64bit with an 8800GTS and I have perfect video on dual screens. I'm also running 9.04 32bit on my old IBM T40 and everything worked right out of the box, however, video is a little sluggish sometimes. It recognized my onboard ATI 9000 as a 7500 or something like that. For the most part, the only thing I use Vista for is gaming right now.

[s0bv1ou5lyd3sprt]

Yeah I'm enjoying 9.04 now. I only had 8.04 on my system for a week or so, so I'm not sure of all the differences, but once I went down to the 32 bit version, I've had no problems so far.

The only thing I'm trying to get synched and having issues with is uTorrent. I have it installed but it doesn't see my G drive where all my torrents are.

[Gary_Busey]

uTorrent doesn't see it or Ubuntu doesn't see it?

[s0bv1ou5lyd3sprt]

uTorrent doesn't. Ubuntu sees all my drives and I see all my shit in them. I had to install uTorrent using Wine (since there is no Linux version of uTorrent). When I hit add a torrent, all that shows up is my drive with Ubuntu on it. If I open up my hard drive with all my torrents on it and drag and drop a torrent in there, it opens, but I can't save it to that drive...just the drive with Ubuntu. I currently have 3 internal drives and an external. All my torrents are on my one internal and I'm not gonna move all that shit around just to get it to show up right in Ubuntu.

I may just find a torrent client made for Linux and see if that works, but I really like uTorrent and hope to get it to work instead.

[Gary_Busey]

uTorrent doesn't. Ubuntu sees all my drives and I see all my shit in them. I had to install uTorrent using Wine (since there is no Linux version of uTorrent). When I hit add a torrent, all that shows up is my drive with Ubuntu on it. If I open up my hard drive with all my torrents on it and drag and drop a torrent in there, it opens, but I can't save it to that drive...just the drive with Ubuntu. I currently have 3 internal drives and an external. All my torrents are on my one internal and I'm not gonna move all that shit around just to get it to show up right in Ubuntu.

I may just find a torrent client made for Linux and see if that works, but I really like uTorrent and hope to get it to work instead.
Ubuntu should have a torrent client already installed. It's called Transmission. I've never used it because I don't usually download torrents. Fire up Synaptic Package Manager and do a search for torrent, see what comes up or do a Google search for some recommended Linux torrent clients.