Thanks to the help of YoonKit, I was able to get the latest release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04.
I tried downloading it as soon as it was possible, woke up in the morning. Did an md5 check and BAM. It was corrupted. Like damn.
Luckily for me the night before I emailed out to the MyOSS list if anyone was able to burn it, bring me a copy.
Initial Impressions
My god the default theme is glossy. God bless themes. But I’ll keep it on for a while.
Compared to the last installation of Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10), there are no large problems. My widescreen works as an external monitor. Everything seems fine.
Xorg
Namely my mouse scrolling with the middle button.
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
Option “EmulateWheel” “on”
Option “EmulateWheelButton” “2″
EndSection
Desktop Effects
Desktop effects work out of the box!
It took a while for me to get Beryl running on openSUSE 10.2 and my nvidia 6200. I referred to the openSUSE wiki on nvidia and beryl, but no it didn’t work.
The solution? Well on the Nvidia wiki page, I resorted to setting up my driver the “hardway“. Actually its not so difficult really, grab the kernel-source package, and make sure you are running the latest available kernel (in my case the package: kernel-default), and your pretty much all set to go by running:
blockquote>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run -q
And if you haven’t set up your xorg.conf yet:
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
Now your all set to go! Apply the necessary changes required on the Beryl wiki page.
So Beryl is up and running, with one exception, the window title’s didn’t appear! Only a quick google away, and a solution was found.
Simply insert the following into the “Screen” section
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”
Option “DisableGLXRootClipping” “True”
So how does Beryl look on my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW? Totally awesome, it really wets your pants :3.
Of course Beryl is pretty pointless, but if people bring up the new graphics effects in Windows Vista, I can just show them my visually pleasing desktop. Best part of all, on my IBM ThinkPad R52 (i915) when doing the cube effect with a video playing, you won’t see it move. On this spare machine, it moves with the flow :3
My friend had a spare wireless card (Belkin F5D7000 Wireless G Desktop Network Card) PCI card lying around, and I decided to give it a shot and set it up, for experimental purposes. Yes, I’ll keep wearing my white hat, at least for now.
In the past I’ve played around with Wireless, in terms of breaking WEP keys, and watching and listening to kismet beep. Very childish stuff.
Initially the card didn’t work in openSUSE 10.2. As the card relied on the rt2500 module, I tried modprobe -i rt2500 to no success.
After looking at the openSUSE Network Adapters (Wireless) site, I discovered I needed to install from source. So I went to the projects site, and grabbed the lastest source (as of now v 1.1.0-b4).
Note: You need to grab the latest kernel source. Do this from the package manager. What you want is the package kernel-source. As of now (8th March 2007), openSUSE is running the 2.6.18.2 kernel.
New user instructions (each one line). Make sure to run as root:
tar -zxvf rt2500-1.1.0-b4.tar.gz
cd rt2500-1.1.0-b4/Module/
make
make install
modprobe -i rt2500
Now the card should be running perfectly fine.
If the module is loaded (execute: lsmod | grep rt2500 , if there is output, it has been loaded) and your still having problems, I suggest going to Yast > Network Devices > Network Card, and now you should see “Belkin F5D7000 Wireless G Desktop Network Card” under the available list of network cards.
Sadly the rt2500 driver won’t work in Master Mode, meaning I can’t create my own access point. I’ll keep trying to hack this, and maybe I’ll get something out of it. Monitor Mode, does work though, but that’s not as fun.
