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ATI

(Edit: this tutorial does not work with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and I will unfortunately not be able to update it for Karmic because I do not have the time nor hardware.)

(Edit 03/14/10: I no longer have the hardware to work on this issue. -This tutorial is no longer officially supported by myself- I personally suggest finding a way to get new hardware (NOT ATI – the driver aren’t worth it) and upgrading to the latest release of Ubuntu.)

Information on how to fix this issue in newer releases of Ubuntu is available.

Joseph Crowell
4/6/2010

Help with the open source ATI legacy drivers on Ubuntu 9.10:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

Follow that guide to the point where it links to “KMS with a Radeon card” then follow the link to here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting

and follow the instructions in the section KMS with a radeon card.

This worked perfectly for me on my ATI Radeon Xpress 200M.

With the newest realease of Ubuntu (9.04 Jaunty Jackalope) came a major problem with support for older ATI graphics cards. Though these cards work with generic drivers, the ability to use dual heads and more advanced configurations has been lost. You may think that you can simply head over to AMD’s ATI driver page and get a driver, but the latest version of Catalyst does not support the older cards. “Maybe I can just download an older version of the driver,” might be what you are thinking, but the old driver is not compatible with the new version of xserver that is included with Ubuntu Jaunty.

The only way to use the old driver is to downgrade your xserver, which is actually not too hard. As long as you have an internet connection and some terminal skills, you are set.

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After easily setting up your Gmail IMAP account in KMail (perhaps using a tutorial like the one featured on Jatecblog) you may wonder how to set up your outgoing SMTP acout too.  After some looking around, I don’t see much of anything on this subject other than people having problems setting it up, so I sat down to figure it and and I believe I have figured it out. Here’s how I went about doing it.

1. First off, open up KMail and go to “Configure KMail” under the Settings menu. This will bring up (as you might have guessed) the settings for KMail.

KMail: Settings > Configure KMail...

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I just moved over to KDE 3.5 (the good old days) and was migrating everything over to Kontact (which includes Akregator) and decided it would be nice to import my Google Reader feeds into Akregator. I’ve compiled steps on how I did this myself.

1. Head over to Google Reader (http://google.com/reader/) and go to the “Import/Export” tab under your settings.

Google Reader : Settings > Import/Export

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Sometimes a corrupt installation package can corrupt your package management system leaving your Linux unable to install or on remove any packages (Software). Here is the message error I got from apt-get after trying to install ndas-admin for Ubuntu.
$sudo apt-get install mplayer   (or any package)
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: The package ndas-admin needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it. (this is the error)

I got stuck with this problem and this article fixed it right up!

Original post by ITechLog > Fix Broken package – Ubuntu

The popular community developed Linux distribution “Ubuntu”, which releases every six months (a month after each GNOME) is having it’s 10 release this month! This upcoming release is version 9.04 which is named “Jaunty Jackalope”

Here I’ve compiled a list of all of the Ubuntu releases with their release dates, names, and version numbers.

1. October 26, 2004 – Ubuntu Warty Warthog (4.10)
2. April 8, 2005 – Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog (5.04)
3. October 12, 2005 – Ubuntu Breezy Badger (5.10)
4. June 1, 2006 – Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06 LTS*)
5. October 26, 2006 – Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10)
6. April 19, 2007 – Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04)
7. October 18, 2007 – Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10)
8. April 24, 2008 – Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS*)
9. October 30, 2008 – Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10)
10. April, 2009 – Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04)

(*LTS – Long Term Support. Releases with long term support are released every two years, and supported for three years (Desktop) or five years (Server) after the release.)

This tutorial explains how to set a specific default ALSA device for Amarok and Kaffeine. (This was tested in Amarok 1.4.9.1 and Kaffeine 0.8.6 both using xine on Kubuntu 8.04 [Hardy Heron]) The main advantage of this would be having your media go through one set of speakers and the system sounds going through another.

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