近來發現很多朋友都BLOG，讓我也BLOG多點。
今日發現原來blogger.com多左個新版本，叫beta版。我睇一睇有咩新功能，發現左可以label post，於是即刻轉左去。其實我想有這個功能好耐，因為我想寫一些不同種類的BLOG，但又不想搞到太亂。原本想開多個BLOG寫關於電腦的野，但而家不用了，因為有了這個label的功能，將post分類就易好多。於是乎我而家不睡，亦都將我以前的post分左類。遲些可以貼多一些書評和關於電腦的文。
Friday, October 27, 2006
Upgrade to Ubuntu Edgy
Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) was scheduled to release on October 26. I was too eager to update to the new release and so I upgraded to release candidate version before the official release. And here is my experience on this upgrade.
After the update, I don't notice any significant improvement. However, my X server couldn't start, since the ati driver was used in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but the package xserver-xorg-video-ati had not been installed. I switched to the fglrx driver and successfully started X, and hoped that I could have better hardware support using the proprietary driver. Everything looks good until I tried to start the openoffice! It gave me this error when I started it in a terminal:
Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit
After googling for a while and looking at the Ubuntu forum, I found that it is related to ATI driver. So I switched back to the open-source ati driver, restarted the computer, and then the openoffice could run again! After this, I still tried to get my proprietary driver to work, trying different versions (8.26.18, 8.29.6) in addition to the one given in Edgy repository. Without luck, all trials failed. So instead of spending extra hours (in addition to the many hours I have spent!) on this, I decided to use the open-source ati driver. By the way, the display card I am using is RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10].
Other changes that I have noticed (or feel useful) after the upgrade include:
After the update, I don't notice any significant improvement. However, my X server couldn't start, since the ati driver was used in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but the package xserver-xorg-video-ati had not been installed. I switched to the fglrx driver and successfully started X, and hoped that I could have better hardware support using the proprietary driver. Everything looks good until I tried to start the openoffice! It gave me this error when I started it in a terminal:
Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit
After googling for a while and looking at the Ubuntu forum, I found that it is related to ATI driver. So I switched back to the open-source ati driver, restarted the computer, and then the openoffice could run again! After this, I still tried to get my proprietary driver to work, trying different versions (8.26.18, 8.29.6) in addition to the one given in Edgy repository. Without luck, all trials failed. So instead of spending extra hours (in addition to the many hours I have spent!) on this, I decided to use the open-source ati driver. By the way, the display card I am using is RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10].
Other changes that I have noticed (or feel useful) after the upgrade include:
- Gaim 2.0 can now display the custom smiley in msn. But actually I hate this custom smiley, since I always can't understand what those custom smiley means!
- Evolution 2.8 supports a vertical preview message pane for mails.
- Tomboy seems to be an large improvement for note taking.
- It has GnuCash 2.0 now.
- Firefox 2.0 is available, but I don't see many (useful) improvements with it except the tab handling.
- The default Ubuntu Human theme is quite ugly.
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