Looks like I can’t run away from Windows. Just handed in the Final Report for the Final year project yesterday and now thinking about the presentation on the coming Monday. So I need to do some demostration of the program which I developed and it requires
The problem is that Quartus II Web Edition is only free for Windows but not Linux, so after thinking about it for a long time I decided to install Windows again. The process isn’t that straight forward but found some very useful tools. I only had a 40GB hard drives with only 8GB free, so I used that for Windows but after the installation I find out I don’t have enough space to install all the program that I need to install. So I asked Terry to let me his 120GB 7200rpm hard drives, that solved the space problem but I didn’t want to reinstall everything and so I find a software for migrating hard drives called:
It’s a great program I have to say and it comes with 15 days trail! Everything works great and it handles both Linux and Windows partition without any problem. It also allows manually adjusting the size of the new partitions. After the migration, everything works, quite a surprise to me actually as I can still remember last time when I try to clone a hard drive.
It has been quite a while since I have Windows on my laptop (Tecra S1) now, just for fun I tried the Vista Transformation Pack by WindowsX. That also works without any problem, quite a interesting program, but mainly it just brings a nicer interface to XP. But be warn, there are always risks with this kind of program. Anyway, I’m quite happy with the migration especially thanks to Acronis for the excellent tool and Terry for letting me his hard drive. Linux will still be the main OS that I will be using and I don’t think I need a new computer any time soon :).
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Managed to solve the problem with getting a blank screen while loading gdm after upgrading a desktop from 6.10 Edgy to 7.04 Fesity Fawn. The desktop has a ATI 9600 graphics card and works fine on 6.10 Edgy, however after the upgrade to 7.04, it starts having this problem. I knew it’s something wrong with the Xorg like many others, after trying a few changes in the xorg.conf without success, I ran the autoconfig for Xorg and that fix the problem, the command is:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
What that basically did for me to finding the HorizSync and VertRefresh, most importantly it changes the driver from “ati” to “vesa“! Initially I thought the problem was just that it doesn’t have a correct sync value, however when I changed the driver back to ati it gave me a blank screen again. So will have to use the vesa driver for a while until the problem with Xorg is fixed. Anyway, after configuring your xorg.conf or ran the command above, restart gdm by:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
everything should be running :).
Tags: 6.10 Edgy, 7.04 Feisty Fawn, ati, Linux, Technology, Ubuntu, upgrade, xorg
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The new Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn is released today! I’m very impressed by Ubuntu for having a new release every 6 months. I have been using the beta version for a while so I can’t test the upgrade function, which I had problem with before when I upgraded 6.10 to 7.04 beta but that problem should be solved with this final release. Although I can’t try it on mine, I will try it on other laptops later when I get a chance.
My experience with 7.04 has been good and the new feature of supporting music sharing should quite attractive to many people. If you are interested in finding out more about my experience with Feisty or Ubuntu in general, these are some of my previous posts:
– Update 20/04/07 –
Just downloaded a CD for upgrade, ran it on a desktop (AMD) with Ubuntu 6.10 installed. Everything ran smoothly until the restart, it loads up to the point where it try to initiate Xorg but it returns a blank screen. Still not sure where the problem lays, will work it out when I have time…
– Update 22/04/07 –
Managed to solve the problem with getting a blank screen while loading gdm, view this post for details.
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System info of Toshiba Tecra S1:
- BIOS: Version 2.50
- system-version:PT831T-11Q4L
- Ubuntu Version - Currently using Feisty 7.04, previously worked on 6.10 Edgy and 6.04 as well
- Kernel - currently using 2.6.20-15-generic, had problem with 2.6.20-14 but 2.6.20-13 works
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Hardware Components
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Status
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Notes
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| Pentium M 1.5GHz |
Works |
No special procedure |
| 15″ XGA TFT Screen |
Works |
Default settings works |
| External VGA - 19″ Xerox XA7 |
Works |
See this post for xorg settings |
| ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility |
Works |
Read this post for 3D support |
| 1280MB RAM (1.2G DDR-266) |
Works |
No special procedure |
| 40GB HDD 5400 RPM |
Works |
No special procedure |
| DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive |
Works |
No special procedure |
| WLAN (Intel PRO/Wireless 802.11B) |
Works |
No special procedure |
| LAN |
Works |
No special procedure |
| 56k Modem |
Untested |
No special procedure |
| SD Card reader |
Untested |
No special procedure |
| Lithium-Ion Battery |
Works |
No special procedure |
| Sound Card |
Works |
No special procedure |
| SD Card reader |
Works |
No special procedure |
| USB 2 |
Works |
Plug and Play works for external harddisks including k800i |
Basic Installation of Ubuntu:
- Very simple to install with graphics interface, can test if everything works first before installation with the live CD.
- Ubuntu is a free distribution, can download from the Official Website
- A very useful online guide (wiki) for Ubuntu
- Post-Install modifications/tweaks - there are many tutorials online, here is one that I wrote for my laptop
Setting up additional features for Ubuntu
Unresolved issues
- Couldn’t get Direct 3D to work on external monitor at 1280×1024 resolution, therefore Beryl can only work on 1024×768.
Configuration Files
- Sources.list - /etc/apt/sources.list - follow this guide to add extra repositories
- Menu.lst - /boot/grub/menu.lst - Startup menu for choosing which OS to enter
- Xorg.conf - /etc/X11/xorg.conf - Some changes to get 1280×1024 resolution to work on 19″ Xerox XA7
Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Xerox XA7″
Option “DPMS”
HorizSync 31-82
VertRefresh 60-75
EndSection
Some useful commands
- sudo - wherever you want admin access
- sudo aptitude search <application name> - search for a application that you can download and install
- sudo aptitude install <application name> - download and install a application
- sudo gedit <file name> - use gedit to edit a file, can use sudo nano <file> in recovery mode
- sudo fdisk -l - list all the hard disks available
- ifconfig - same as ipconfig in windows
- ctrl + z - stop a running command in terminal
- ctrl + alt + backspace - restart Xorg
- mount myiso.iso /mnt/iso/ -o loop - mount an iso image
Some Applications that I found useful - not installed by default
Contact Information
Links
Tags: 7.04 Feisty Fawn, ati, Linux, Technology, Toshiba Tecra S1, Ubuntu, upgrade, Weblog, xorg
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The Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn beta came out a few days ago, after finding out about it I have decided to try it out. It’s quite risky has it’s still beta version, but want to try it out and help testing it. The first version of Ubuntu that I tried out was 6.04 Dapper, then I upgraded it to 6.10 Edgy and now to Feisty, will post again after the upgrade if it still works :D.
– Update 30/03/07–
It’s getting quite late now, the upgrade seems to run fine until I restart the computer. It has problem booting into Linux giving me an kernel panic error, seems I’m not the only having the problem! At the moment, using Ubuntu 6.10 live CD to see if I can fix it, backing everything up. In the worse case, will wait until the final version come out and install the new one instead :(.
– Update 31/03/07 –
Finally got Ubuntu 7.04 beta working, at the end I had to format my comp and do a new installation. As I had to format some of the partitions anyway I thought about installing DesktopBSD and PC-BSD but couldn’t get either of them working. The new 7.04 is good with some new features, still testing it out and a lot of updates and installations to do. In a way it’s that the upgrade didn’t work so I had to clean up my computer! Let’s see how it goes…
– Update 02/04/07 –
Fixed the problem with high cpu (100%) usage and slower response with ubuntu 7.04 compare to 6.10. Installed the xorg 7.2 and the problem seems to be solved, everything is running smoothly and as fast as before  . To do this:
Add the following to your sources.list (i.e. sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list)
deb http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton/xorg72 feisty xorg-test
Update your apt database
sudo apt-get update
Run the upgrade
sudo apt-get upgrade
If you have EXA enable, you might want to change it to XAA first. Other than that, restart session by Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and everything should be a lot faster!
– Update 03/04/07 –
Ubuntu 7.04 detect k800i without the need of installing extra drivers. Today I just wanted to get some photos from the k800i, since I just got the new ubuntu I thought I would just plug it in and see if it can be detected. Surprisingly, it works, it detected the phone and allow me to transfer files. Thanks to the development team for such a great OS!
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