That's putting far too mildly. I'd put it thus: Anybody who uses automatix requirers an ugent consultation with their psychiatrist.
It stuffs both the permission structures keeping the system files safe, and as Steve points out, the efficacy of your package management system. On 12/7/07, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having seen the damage that automatix can do to any sane package management > system, I wouldn't really recommend it any more. > > A good idea ruined by developers more used to Micrisift IMO... > > Steve > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:30:01 +1300 > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have had a similar problem with Gutsy. > > > > Go to system>restricted drivers manager and see what driver has been > > loaded. Ensure the resticted drivers box has been ticked. > > > > If X dosen't start (not uncommon) then do the dpkg-reconfigure > > xserver-xorg.conf thing. > > > > the next move is to down load automatix > > www.getautomatix.com ver 2.0.6 > > and run the drivers and fonts module in that. quite a long download. > > > > That sorted both my desktop and Lappy > > > > > > just my opinion, but I have found it pays to be VERY cautious with the > > information given in the Ubuntu forums > > > > Cheers Chris T > > > > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:46 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: > > > I have a fresh AMD64 Gutsy install that hasn't gone too smoothly. The > > > key annoyance that I'm stumped about is the aweful way fonts are > > > rendered - in certain places only. If I go to System Settings, Monitor > > > & Display, I have finally managed to get the screen resolution to read > > > 1440x900 (correct for this LCD monitor), the graphics card is detected > > > as NVIDIA GeForce 6, driver nv. Earlier I found that I had to download > > > and install the latest nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2 > > > in order to get X to start. I'm not certain which driver I am now > > > using, whether this is the nv driver, or the NVIDIA one (I'm still > > > fairly confused about drivers in linux). In Appearance -> Fonts I have > > > anti-aliasing turned on and have tried various settings in there to > > > improve things without success. > > > > > > Fonts in this email composition window appear OK, menus in Thunderbird > > > are OK, but basically any KDE related fonts (window title bars, K menu, > > > konqueror, konsole) all look terrible. > > > > > > Can anyone suggest where I have gone wrong and what I need to do? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Roger > > > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
