Ubuntu Queries by MetalheadGautham

[ray|raven]

^Dude, Even I use four workspaces,
Got a terminal running permanently on one,
I dont need to name workspaces.

Oh, wait, dont tell me you lose track of em , if you dont name em now

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by rayraven

^Dude, Even I use four workspaces,
Got a terminal running permanently on one,
I dont need to name workspaces.

Oh, wait, dont tell me you lose track of em , if you dont name em now

I just hate the words Desk 1, Desk 2, etc.
And for a permanent terminal, I use yakuake. Just press F12 to have a terminal drop down.

another question: do any of you shut down your ubuntu ?
I prefer hibernating as it results in a 91% decrease in startup time.
But in window$, there are issues like lagging after hibernating.
I heard they don't (and can't) exist in linux.
Is it true ?
Will my performance drop due to not shutting down for a few months ?

[ray|raven]

^Nope, no decrease in performance.
But for me , the difference between a cold boot and hibernate isnt much,
What's the cold boot time from grub to desk on ubuntu?
Its abt 20 secs on my zenwalk running on 256megs of RAM.

And , yeah yakuake is supposedly very good, too bad it needs kdelibs.
EDIT:Just found Tilda which is sorta like Yakuake for kde, anyone has any experience with it on Gnome/Xfce?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by rayraven

EDIT:Just found Tilda which is sorta like Yakuake for kde, anyone has any experience with it on Gnome/Xfce?

will try today.

[gary4gar]

make sure you have adequate SWAP space in according to your RAM to enable hibernation.

btw, you should try and normal way, it much better

[praka123]

around 1 GB swap for hibernate feature?

[gary4gar]

Originally Posted by praka123

around 1 GB swap for hibernate feature?

SWAP should be according to your RAM

[ray|raven]

If you followed the standard 1.5 times your RAM , when creating swap,
you should'nt have any problems.

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by rayraven

If you followed the standard 1.5 times your RAM , when creating swap,
you should'nt have any problems.

mine is 486.3 mb swap for a 256 mb DDR 400 RAM stick.

[ray|raven]

Also, it depends on what you do on the system , I got arnd ~250 megs of swap - for my 256 meg system ,Coz i rarely do any intensive stuff on my system, Other than gimp.

[FilledVoid]

mine is 486.3 mb swap for a 256 mb DDR 400 RAM stick.

Does hibernate work on your system?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by FilledVoid

Does hibernate work on your system?

works like a charm.

[MetalheadGautham]

I want to play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on Linux. I found This Page but I am confused as to which file(s) I need to get. Please help.

[gary4gar]

it should help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ga...tleWolfenstein

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

it should help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ga...tleWolfenstein

dats an old version

[MetalheadGautham]

Now I need help in connecting to the internet in Ubuntu Feisty, so that I may do a few things here and there before downloading and installing hardy.

I used to use net comfortably in feisty, but some bsnl downtime ensured that I never recovered, though windows works perfectly.

Here are the details about my DNS Experimenting:

1. I Use BSNL H500

2. I have tried the 61.1.96.(69 and 71) dns servers, but they don't work.

3. I have tried 192.168.1.1 and 218.248.240.24 dns servers, same as above.

4. I have tried the OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 servers, still no luck. I confirmed here that DNS servers were propably not the problem.

Here is my current setup, with the steps I did:

System>>>Administration>>>Network>>>wired-connection>>>properties

configuration: Static IP Address
IP Address: 192.168.1.100
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway Address: 192.168.1.1

and I have settled down with the fail-proof OpenDNS servers for now.

==============================================

But I still am not able to connect to the net.
Please help.
I am sick of working in Windows XP Safe Mode.

[gary4gar]

PPPoE or Bridge?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

PPPoE or Bridge?

if I remember right, all BSNL DataOne Modems given by BSNL, including my Huweii Type I modem are PPPoE.

But thats not the problem. The problem is that one fine day the net just stopped working on ubuntu, though it continues to work on windows. I hate having to reboot to check something up.

[MetalheadGautham]

bump !

[MetalheadGautham]

bump... please ? Anybody ? Just help me browse the net in ubuntu, thats all.

[Faun]

did u mess up with IPTABLES ?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by T159

did u mess up with IPTABLES ?

never touched any file even remotely close to that name.

[Faun]

try
iptables --flush

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by T159

try
iptables --flush

and the next step ?
I can't reboot every 3 minutes...
please tell me the entire solution set, and I will save it to a text file and look it up through ubuntu on reboot.

[MetalheadGautham]

bump...

[FilledVoid]

Question 1: Can you access the router interface through your web browser by entering its IP address?

Question 2: When you made the changes to the DNS did you change it from the router or from the network Manager in Feisty?

Question 3: Do you have separate Location Documents in network Manager created ? If so delete any saved connections already saved in it and reconfigure it.

Question 4: Remove the static IP from your computer and set it to DHCP just for laughs. I don't know how thats going to help but at this point you have nothing to lose.

Question 5: By any chance did you edit anything to blacklist any hardware or of the sort?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by FilledVoid

Question 1: Can you access the router interface through your web browser by entering its IP address?

Question 2: When you made the changes to the DNS did you change it from the router or from the network Manager in Feisty?

Question 3: Do you have separate Location Documents in network Manager created ? If so delete any saved connections already saved in it and reconfigure it.

Question 4: Remove the static IP from your computer and set it to DHCP just for laughs. I don't know how thats going to help but at this point you have nothing to lose.

Question 5: By any chance did you edit anything to blacklist any hardware or of the sort?

1. how do I do that ?
2. network manager

3. yes. I have only one such location doccument ATM, which has my current settings

4. I think I had tried it loooooooong back and it failed. That was an year ago, when I tried to get net in ubuntu for the first time and I was a linux n00b.

5. no

[gary4gar]

1) Open 192.168.1.1 and see if you reach the router config page?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by T159

try
iptables --flush

worked !
but I noticed that I had to do it quite often later, as firefox often stopped connecting to the net. I guess it really IS time to upgrade.

I finished downloading hardy yesterday. Hurray to hardy !

[FilledVoid]

Wish you good luck in installing hardy. However if you have lesser than 512 MB may I recommend getting XFCE instead of using gnome. Although Hardy seems more responsive it does take a bit of memory .