Ubuntu 9.10 available now!

slylittlefox · 4 Nov 2009 at 03:41

Upgraded to 9.10 today - the little differences from 9.04 are what makes it fantastic.

I've got a triple-boot setup on my MBP with Windows 7/OSX/Ubuntu. Before the upgrade, wireless was a bit shaky (that is, sometimes it would work sometimes it wouldn't - was never so concerned as to look into why). 9.10 sees the wireless working out of the box, all the MBP function keys (e.g. brightness and volume etc) work, Bluetooth, audio etc etc.

However, iPlayer doesn't work

Is anybody else using the x64 9.10 and got iPlayer working in Firefox?

This is the showstopper for me - I listen to a iPlayer radio show every night when I go to bed, and because it doesn't work, I can't make the full move from Windows 7. And for some reason unbeknownst to me, none of the radio shows are available for download (the iPlayer desktop app works great for TV shows).

If anyone's had the same problem, and managed to fix it, I'll pay you absolutely no money at all if you can give me some pointers

EDIT: After a random Google searching tip-off, I installed Opera. iPlayer works fine within it

So it seems it's down to Firefox!
EDIT2: Just tried it in Seamonkey - exactly the same as Firefox. It's something specific to Mozilla :confused:

arigold · 4 Nov 2009 at 09:17

Failed on upgrade, cause I had dodgy drivers for ATI, deleted xorg, restart xserver, all good!

JC · 4 Nov 2009 at 17:33

slylittlefox said:
However, iPlayer doesn't work Is anybody else using the x64 9.10 and got iPlayer working in Firefox?

This is the showstopper for me - I listen to a iPlayer radio show every night when I go to bed, and because it doesn't work, I can't make the full move from Windows 7. And for some reason unbeknownst to me, none of the radio shows are available for download (the iPlayer desktop app works great for TV shows).

If anyone's had the same problem, and managed to fix it, I'll pay you absolutely no money at all if you can give me some pointers

EDIT: After a random Google searching tip-off, I installed Opera. iPlayer works fine within it So it seems it's down to Firefox!
EDIT2: Just tried it in Seamonkey - exactly the same as Firefox. It's something specific to Mozilla

I had the same problem with the latest version of Firefox and iPlayer.
I'm running a new 64bit 9.10 install and have ATI proprietary drivers.

I messed around reinstalling all different versions of flash to no avail, ended up where iPlayer would simply crash firefox. Then I found a thread on Ubuntu forums where someone linked it to Compiz.

I turned off compiz and firefox would play iplayer video without any problems using latest version of firefox and the 64 bit version 10 of flash.
But then the best bit..turned compiz back on and iplayer still works

MikeHunt79 · 4 Nov 2009 at 17:40

it's a shame they can't combine both 32bit and 64bit versions like Apple have done with OSX 10.6...

You can actually run 64-bit apps under a 32-bit kernel etc. It's all very clever...

I'm guessing 32-bit would be best for a 1.2GHz p3 rig with 640mb of RAM... Would it even run?

afraser2k · 6 Nov 2009 at 15:11

Is the Gnome meta-package broken on 9.10 for anyone else? I'm getting an error for unmet dependencies:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.

gnome: Depends: gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu8) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gnome-vfs-obexftp but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

when trying to "sudo apt-get install gnome" onto a test machine.

Also, 9.10 has broken the support for the webcam on my Advent 4211-C netbook (rebranded MSI Wind U100) so I think I'm going to revert to 9.04 as it was working fine in that.

psd99 · 7 Nov 2009 at 01:32

MasterPlan1 said:
Fm2010 works using wine, just set it up and go.

thanks by the way guys before I go to bed after a long day

I've got wine installed I've got my CD in the drive

trying to get FM2010 to work in ubuntu......

I click on the .exe file and use wine to install
I see some window comes up to 100%
then a black screen flashes fast and I can't see what it says

I don't get it what am I doing wrong?

fadetoblack · 7 Nov 2009 at 22:18

just got it running on my net top and it rocks : )

Ross1234 · 7 Nov 2009 at 22:21

The Mad Rapper said:
But which 64 bit version do you use then? I am confused by the options, especially as the only 64 bit d/l seemed to be for AMD chips, what do you use for Intel chips?

No no no, it jsut says AMD64 but its for intel too. AMD64 is just a name for 64bit.

brummie · 7 Nov 2009 at 22:25

I love the way nautilus now goes back and forward using my side mouse buttons. Been waiting 10 years for that.

quackers · 12 Nov 2009 at 22:20

I've updated my netbook to 9.10 UNR, which is very, very good.

I've only just updated my main desktop from 8.10 to 9.04, I think I'll wait for a couple of months to 9.10 as there seems to be quite a few problems.

No bloody drivers for my old ATI card in 9.04 though, would people recommend buying an nvidia card for ubuntu?

MikeHunt79 · 14 Nov 2009 at 19:42

Is the Ubuntu Remote Desktop a new addition?

How does it compare to something like FreeNX? Is there a Windows and OSX client?

quackers · 14 Nov 2009 at 20:53

it's the edition specially made for the netbooks, it's very good give it a go

MikeHunt79 · 14 Nov 2009 at 21:19

quackers said:
it's the edition specially made for the netbooks, it's very good give it a go

I think you have the wrong end of the stick, I'm referring to the Remote Desktop feature in Ubuntu 9,10 Desktop edition.

Fillado · 14 Nov 2009 at 22:05

MikeHunt79 said:
Is the Ubuntu Remote Desktop a new addition?

How does it compare to something like FreeNX? Is there a Windows and OSX client?

It just uses VNC so it's pretty universal

Rudeboy · 15 Nov 2009 at 11:32

Anyone managed to get video working with the MSN network via a messaging client?

I've tried Empathy, aMSN and Emesene and none of them work.

Was really hoping to move over to Ubuntu permanently on my netbook, but as I only use it for Skype and MSN Video chats back to family in the UK thats impossible.

Looks like I'll be putting XP back on at this rate.

arigold · 15 Nov 2009 at 11:45

Looks good, apart from the default login theme

thepharcyde · 15 Nov 2009 at 12:15

Okay so how do you install packages Applications>Ubuntu Software Centre??

If I search for say Samba, it shows the package but no option to install??

JRS · 15 Nov 2009 at 12:16

thepharcyde said:
Okay so how do you install packages Applications>Ubuntu Software Centre??

If I search for say Samba, it shows the package but no option to install??

Should give you an arrow on the right, press that and a screen comes up with the option to install it.

thepharcyde · 15 Nov 2009 at 12:25

No nothing!

JonJ678 · 15 Nov 2009 at 15:56

I can't say I've noticed that much of a difference from 9.04. After playing with it in virtualbox for a while I've left my desktop at jaunty and moved my netbook to karmic.

Grub 2 is a mess. This may be unfair but it's definitely my opinion. Unsure whether it's worth learning how to configure or not when it appears to do the same thing as the previous version. Wasted on me perhaps.

@quackers Nvidia drivers and ubuntu have been great for me since 8.04. Currently using quadro drivers with no issues whatsoever. I thought amd support was good too but have no experience of it. Intel graphics support was shameful a couple of generations back, might be alright now.

@Rudeboy emesene and pidgin are both working out of the box for me. Unhelpful I know.