Small Ubuntu problems inside.

[Trifid]

I finally bothered to swap around my sata cables so the OS harddrive was in SATA1.

Anyway just some Q's that I would like answered.

1. Is there a way to get the back and forward buttons to work on my mouse?

2. I had the cube thing working all of 2 mins. Now when ever I change desktop I just get a blank wallpaper screen and no way of getting back to the main one other than mashing the keyboard. The cube is enabled but doesn't work.

3. When I middle click scroll I get ghosts of the middle click thing (I don't know its name.)

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looks like above. Is there anyway to make it not do that?

4. How do I change the order of the boot loader. (I want XP on a 3 second timer as default.) - Edit: found this one.

Thanks, Trif.

 

[gumbald]

You're going to have to be more specific

1. What mouse is it?

2. What graphics card you got, and which tutorial did you use to set it up?

3. No idea what you mean, can you get a screenshot?

 

[Trifid]

It's a Logitech MX518.

I have a Nvidia 7800GT. I didn't, it installed the drivers when I chose to have desktop effects.

thing has ghosts so I will get one every 1/2 inch or so of screen space when I scroll down there will be another.

 

[gumbald]

It's a Logitech MX518.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=219894

Should give you the appropriate, apparently works for all Logitech mice. I use my Microsoft mouse on Ubuntu, can't vouch for that therefore.

I have a Nvidia 7800GT. I didn't, it installed the drivers when I chose to have desktop effects.

Wasn't sure the cube came as default with desktop effects, I don't use them anyway. You'll love Beryl more

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/nVIDIA

Window previews like Vista and other little things that go well beyond the Desktop Effects built in. And it'll run lovely on your 7800GT

thing has ghosts so I will get one every 1/2 inch or so of screen space when I scroll down there will be another.

Not sure what could be causing that, might be your graphics driver not working properly, the Beryl install will make sure that you have the latest Nvidia driver.

 

[Simian]

4. How do I change the order of the boot loader. (I want XP on a 3 second timer as default.) - Edit: found this one.

Thanks, Trif.

Google for a Program called 'Grubed' its soooo much easier than trying to manually edit the Grub in Terminal!...

Otherwise theres a few ways to do it!...

1) Put your XP (or Default non-Linux Install)

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

Before:

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

Or

2) Count (from the Top) how many OS's down your default OS is, every time you see 'title', Starting at 0 onward!

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=fe7bf845-7ce9-4733-b6de-f70f2b62076d ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
quiet
savedefault

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=fe7bf845-7ce9-4733-b6de-f70f2b62076d ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic

title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

ie: 4 (in my example)

and Change:

# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to 'saved' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0

to 'default 4' (or what ever your default OS is!)

But as I said!... GrubEd is Sooooooooo Much Easier!!

Check this too!! http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm

Hope this Helps!!

Sim.

 

[richardbirks]

2. I had the cube thing working all of 2 mins. Now when ever I change desktop I just get a blank wallpaper screen and no way of getting back to the main one other than mashing the keyboard. The cube is enabled but doesn't work.

Beryl and Emerald can be found as options now within Add/Remove Software off the main menu in Ubuntu 7.04; that's the best way to get the 3D cube and other effects working. You'll most likely want to turn off the "enable desktop effects flag" before you do this.

If you do it this way, Beryl will most likely continue to use the Gnome theme manager to render windows and so on, Emerald will just need selecting from the Beryl-manager main menu to enable it to "theme" your desktop.

--
Richard.
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[Trifid]

Excellent. Getting Beryl to work put me off the Badger one. (I couldn't get it to work and kept on messing up the GUI so I had a text based UI.)