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Install fglrx in Karmic

tiagoboldt — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:07:17 +0000

It’s been a long time since I started to use Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic. The main frustration over it was that I was unable to get my ATI Radeon HD3650 to work with the proprietary driver. A kernel panic would happen when X started.. Since the open-source drivers still don’t work that well with the HD series, I’ve started digging for some way to make it work. Yesterday I got it.

Really quick explanation, delete any fglrx driver you have from the repositories with:

sudo apt-get purge fglrx*

Next, download the driver from ATI’s site. Install it with (your version might be different than 9-12 and not x86_64):

sudo sh ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run –buildandinstallpkg Ubuntu/karmic

Now we have to configure the driver with:

sudo aticonfig –initial
sudo aticonfig –acpi-services=off

All done, reboot and you should be now using fglrx without a single issue. Have fun with those 3d games:)

Edit: Just tried and you can get the same result using the driver from the repository, so, instead of downloading, build and install it, you can just install it as bellow and configure it as above.

sudo apt-get instal xorg-driver-fglrx

Google Gears in Ubuntu

tiagoboldt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:41:30 +0000

Finally, Gears is available for all 64bit users out there in Ubuntu.
If you’re already using karmic, just do:

sudo apt-get install gears

You’re good to go!

Ubuntu 9.04 Beta

tiagoboldt — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:10:31 +0000

I’ve been using jaunty for a couple of weeks now, and, despites the issue with ati cards, I thinks that there’s a really good Ubuntu release coming out! But, the beta is out, go on, download, test and enjoy it yourself!

Ubuntu 8.04 is out!

tiagoboldt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:46:11 +0000

With a bunch of changes, the Canonical supported Linux distribution is ready for you to download it, and see that, indeed, Linux can be for Human Beings!!

Quick post in a busy, busy week!

Hardy cds

tiagoboldt — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:44:21 +0000

The latest Ubuntu version is almost out of the oven!

With less than a week remaining, cds are already ready for your orders!

Go ahead, place your request at ShipIt from canonical, and have your cds freely shipped to you. Order some extra, spread the love, offer them to your friends and neighbors!

Gnome-Do

tiagoboldt — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:51:23 +0000

Recent gnome’s project, gnome-do, is awesome!

For anyone not aware of it, you just time almost anything you want to do, and gnome will..Well, Do it! I’ve tried Queen, and the music started playing, a nick from a friend, and the conversation is open with pidgin, some page I’ve visited, and I get there imidiatly, and lots, lots more!

Try it out, it’s easilly and fastly installed!

Ubuntu Developer Week

tiagoboldt — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:53:10 +0000

It starts today!

There will be several classes, about a bit of everything needed to start helping with the Ubuntu development. There are almost 40000 bugs filled against Ubuntu, and, believe me, anyone can help a little with them! Let’s all learn something this week and start help ing!

Ubuntu Hardy, Alpha 5

tiagoboldt — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:00:50 +0000

Great news to the next alpha for the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04!

To everyone who got interested in my last post, this version already ships all the mtp stuff needed to connect to those new creative mp3 players. I’ve worked a bit myself on it, by merging the latest libmtp.

Another great feature is the disk manager. From now on, whenever you plug in a new disk, you can graphically set it. Not aware of fstab? Not needed anymore!

Tribal Wars

tiagoboldt — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:35:30 +0000

Accepting Gouki’s challenge, the Ubuntu community is now gathering at Tribal Wars, a browser based game, where every player controls a small village, striving for power and glory. In order to really kick ass with our UBU tribe, we need you!

So, what are you waiting for? Read the wiki, register and join us in this adventure!

P.S.: We’re getting more people every hour, still, every help is needed! Come and join us and be able to get to know other Ubuntu users, while having some fun! If you have a digg account, please help us spreading the word.

OS X v10.5 and Ubuntu 7.10

tiagoboldt — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:17:21 +0000

The hype is here. Two of the most used OSs from our days are going to have a new release this ~~week~~ month. Prepare your Digg feed for a lot of Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X experience, schedule for release October 18th and ~~19th~~ 26th respectively!

Both are incredibly improved and I guess that there will be really a lot to talk about each one of them, when they begin to spread through all those computers out there.

I’ll keep with Ubuntu, obviously, mainly due to the 200$ kept in my pocket! But I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there dying to put their hand into this most recent OS X v10.5.

Is Open-Source achieving the quality standards needed to be selected by Desktop users over other well paid OSs?

You can learn more about each one of them by clicking in each picture.

Which are you waiting for?

(Sorry to all you MS Windows fans out there, Windows was not forgotten, it’s just not even at this level)