Do You Do Ubuntu?
Now that I was in Ubuntu I could access all my data. I backed everything up and decided I would take drastic measures. I deleted my hard drive. Reformatted into a single partition as ext3, then reformatted again as NTSF. I had the recovery cd that came with my laptop and went to reload XP. When I got to the point where I needed to enter any data with my keyboard or mouse, no luck.
Well, I don’t have time right now to mess with this problem. I need to get some work done on this website. So, since Ubuntu was working so well, I just installed it on my laptop. I’m building a Joomla site, so I needed a LAMP environment, which I got with XAMPP. I use Rockettheme templates so I’m going to need a way to edit PNG files. Other than that, I can basically do anything I was doing before.
The best part is, I installed VirtualBox for virtual machines. And then, I installed XP into that and it worked fine. So when I installed XP on the hard drive, it wouldn’t work. But when I installed XP inside of Ubuntu it works fine. Go figure. Anybody have any ideas let me know. FWIW, the keyboard works fine when booting. I can get into the BIOS and make changes.
A few hiccups, first, my wireless acted weird at first. The button to turn wireless on and off doesn’t really work. A few times when it started up the wireless wasn’t on and I couldn’t get it to turn on. After a few reboots playing with the switch during boot, it started working and has been working ever since. Secondly, I attached a second monitor at school to have Ubuntu on my laptop monitor and XP on the secondary monitor, but the resolution settings won’t go over 1024×768 which is kind of bumming me out. Finally, I tried to use a headphone/microphone today and it didn’t work. I installed the Gnome ALSA mixer but haven’t had any luck yet. We’ll see how this goes.
Tagged as Ubuntu, Vista, Windows XP + Categorized as Tech
A nice part of Ubuntu is that there is a huge online community of users. There are many forums that can answer nearly all of your questions. I really like Ubuntu, hiccups and compatibility issues and all.
Yeah, I’ve always thought Ubuntu had the best community forum. I’ve rarely failed to find an answer to something I needed. I just haven’t taken the time to search out some of these issues yet.
no clue what you are talking about, but i did enjoy reading.
Mark, we use Ubuntu, so maybe you could talk to Ryan about it sometime.
i am wiht Chad…maybe you can fix my computer! We have wireless but it won’t read the router…i have even gotten a new router, still i am stuck to a cord in the wall..BOO! (oh, it WAS reading the router, then all the sudden stopped. the WiFi works fine on my laptop, something with the Netgear-i am thinking i am i need of an uninstall/reinstall?)
Abbey, I’m going to guess its a driver issue. I generally have problems with 3rd party wireless drivers and usually just switch it over to let Windows manage my wireless connection. Click on the Start menu and right click on My Computer. Choose Manage. Under Services and Applications, double click on Services. Scroll down to Wireless Zero Configuration and start the service. There should also be a way to disable the driver that came with your wifi card but it varies by brand. Starting the zero conf service should allow windows to manage the connection and you may have better luck. Of course, this might not help at all, but in the past its worked for me.