Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Erez D
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Boaz Rymland b...@rymland.com wrote: geoffrey mendelson wrote: After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde world. I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing Ubuntu have the same problem, 3 days after they were booted,

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Gabor Szabo
Let me also complain :-) After upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04: 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot set the screen resolution to high enough. Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I change the configuration via the GUI. So how can I

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Gabor, On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:33:15AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: 2) Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does not do anything (should restart X) This is a new (mis)feature of X11. See http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/16916.html baruch -- ~. .~ Tk

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Erez D
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does not do anything (should restart X) either use alt-sysrq-k instead of ctl-alt-bksp or add to xorg.conf: Section ServerFlags Option DontZap false EndSection erez.

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 20, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I change the configuration via the GUI. So how can I reconfigure the X ? I've had good and bad luck configuring X via editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf It either works or the whole

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:15 +0300, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot set the screen resolution to high enough. Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I change the configuration via the GUI.

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Boaz Rymland b...@rymland.com wrote: On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:15 +0300, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot set the screen resolution to high enough. Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Yuval Hager
On Wednesday 20 May 2009, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On May 20, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I change the configuration via the GUI. So how can I reconfigure the X ? I've had good and bad luck configuring X via

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Oron Peled
On 20.05.2009 Gabor Szabo wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Boaz Rymland b...@rymland.com wrote: On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:15 +0300, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot set the screen resolution to high enough.

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:20:37PM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: BTW: Since NetworkManager-0.7 (about a year ago), it has distribution specific plugins to prevent it from messing with network interfaces that appear in the distribution legacy config files. I've tested

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 19, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Erez D wrote: hi too much of ubuntu needs human interventions, some configurations are only possible under interactive gui is ubuntu getting more and more similiar to microsoft ? Wait. things that make me unhappy with Ubuntu: (9.04) My DVD drive stopped

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 19, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Erez D wrote: i didn't even mension the other problems i had sound stopped working. X is not listening to TCP connections. There is no config option to enable it - to change that i had to edit a ubuntu script. this script is overridden on update ... That's

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread Erez D
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On May 19, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Erez D wrote: i didn't even mension the other problems i had sound stopped working. X is not listening to TCP connections. There is no config option to enable it - to

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
Why not try the new Mandriva 2009.1 Gnome. It isn't bad at all once you get the hang of it. I let Mandriva upgrade me from their server from the 2009.0. I think that this is the Kernel used in the new version. The edition has the webcamera drivers that I need installed for Logitech chat. With

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread Boaz Rymland
geoffrey mendelson wrote: After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde world. I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing Ubuntu have the same problem, 3 days after they were booted, but ones running other operating systems don't. I had a similar issue