Managed to completely screw something up that caused flash to stop working, my drives no longer want to mount, and probably one or two others things that I didn’t bother to find out first. On top of that ever since I switched USB ports on my mouse fiddling around a week or so back my cursor has jumped around randomly on boot until I restart X and for the life of me couldn’t figure that one out either.
Instead, I took the Windows troubleshooting route and installed from scratch. Unfortunately, even when it booted up off the CD my mouse was still skipping around – and this behavior has carried over to the new installation as well. I will certainly be fixing this first once I get my standard setup going again.
- installed Ubuntu 8.10 from CD using a guided full disk and default settings
- installed updates as of Jan 25, 2009 (223 updates)
Rebooted after installing updates – when X came back up the mouse was skipping like usual, hit ctrl-alt-backspace to restart and received this error: “The greeter application appears to be crashing. Attempting to use a different one. <OK>” Clicking OK would reload X – and 3 times in a row I saw this error, 4th time loaded fine and the mouse was not skipping.
- installed NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 177) [Recommended]
- restarted
Mouse skipped on boot again (grr) – this time X restarted without any errors.
Fiddled with System -> Preferences -> NVIDIA settings until I realized that I needed to save my X configuration for the twinview setup I wanted which can’t be done unless it’s in root. Reran out of terminal as sudo nvidia-settings, saved conf, restarted X.
Installed VLC so I could watch The Shield while I cleaned house.
- Was annoyed that my terminal shortcut keys weren’t in, went to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts and set terminal to CTRL+<super>L
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sudo apt-get install vlc
Spat up 47 packages to install + these recommended (nas libdvdcss2 debhelper libqt4-dev mozilla-plugin-vlc videolan-doc)
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sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc
- ALT+F2 type: vlc <enter>
Dammit. Just remember The Shield is on my roommate’s vista machine. Need to mount his share.
Click: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=373917
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mkdir ~/shares
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mkdir ~/shares/vista
I didn’t use smbfs as was said on the forum link – earlier when I was reading about samba for windows networking I found that cifs was the more up-to-date and better option, I’ll try and find the link to where I found that later. Regardless, the command is the same.
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sudo mount -t cifs -o username=$USER,password=$PASSWORD //VistaMachineName/downloads /home/kyle/shares/Vista
I don’t like automounting drives =/
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alias vista='sudo mount -t cifs -o username=$USER,password=$PASSWORD //VistaMachineName/downloads /home/kyle/shares/Vista'
Awesome. Watching The Shield and vacuuming!
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