Hi, Kerry Mayes wrote:
> 1. smbfs is uninstalled and not replaced. Easy fixed. Didn't happen to me, things keep right on keeping on. > 2. VMware Server from the feisty repos has not been upgraded. Only > solution was to uninstall and install from a download from vmware. > Relatively easily fixed. Workstation also is broken, well the version I was running. I found a patch that does overcome the problem which was mentioned on the Ubuntu forums. Not liking the patch much I downloaded the latest version of workstation and it installed fine. > 3. Dual screens - not working. Hmmm. There's a gui now, so > theoretically no need to start editing the xorg.conf file. No luck. > Google for the answers. There are now two ways of doing this. The > gui way uses xinerama. The manual way uses xrandr. Aaaaaargh! > > Feisty was very kind to me over this - by turning off xinerama my two > screens came up as two desktops - very handy. Gusty initialises one > desktop and leaves the other blank. bugger! Much more research > required. > > And as I'm trying to work in between trying different ideas, I find > that the graphics performance has slowed to a crawl. It take 20 - 30 > seconds to redraw a table in a word processor. I use only a single screen but haven't encountered any issues with graphics performance. I use an old Ti4200 and have Compiz installed and a number of visual effects enabled, as snappy as Feisty on which I was using Beryl. The upgrade automatically swapped Beryl for Compiz and did take a little figuring. Cheers L
