Issues after installing Ubuntu Studio Natty 64-bit

[Mike Holstein]

http://fossplanet.com/f10/real-time-kernel-nvidia-41885/

<http://fossplanet.com/f10/real-time-kernel-nvidia-41885/>^^ about using
proprietary nvidia drivers with -realtime kernels

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 16:00 +0300, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:34:20AM +0200, Ralf wrote:
> > > Hi :)
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > > I installed Natty. The installer detected the correct keyboard layout,
> > > but set it to a wrong layout. I guess I can solve this myself ;)
> >
> > Right. I'm not sure how the detection routines are at the moment, but
> I've also
> > learnt from the past the one layout I want to use, and then always select
> that
> > manually. Always works for me.
>
> And where do you select it, assumed you're not using a DE, but e.g.
> Ion2?
>
> > > especially because X settings, as usual for Ubuntu installs, are
> > > ridiculous and I need to set up a xorg.conf.
> >
> > This is interesting; can you specify the nature of these problems, and
> maybe
> > give some hardware information?
>
> Yes, no display, but a CRT, that's enough to get grotesque settings,
> such as limitations for screen resolutions that can be chosen and nice
> stroboscope like frequencies only.
>
> And in addition, I wish to be able to select a graphics driver,
> regarding to the kernel I'll use. It's needed because I don't know how
> to add the proprietary graphics module to the kernel-rt and even if this
> should work, sometimes I don't wish to run real-time kernels with the
> proprietary driver, regarding to audio performance. But for some usage
> 3D is needed.
>
> I switch at startup, regarding to the booted kernel, between the nv and
> nvidia driver, I'm doing this by the attached Rc script.
> And as mentioned before, I also need to set up frequencies and
> resolution to chose for my monitor correctly.
>
> After setting up a classic xorg.conf, the mouse wheel doesn't work any
> more. I deleted the mouse and keyboard entries in xorg.conf and only
> kept graphic card and monitor settings, now the mouse wheel does work
> again.
>
> The main issue is to get the correct monitor settings for the first
> time.
>
> I'm using GNOME only at the moment, hence I don't know how settings for
> X, mouse and keyboard are currently handled by Ubuntu. I e.g. set the
> keyboard layout by GDM and usually it's not good to add "Virtual    3840
> 1200" to your xorg.conf, because this would become default for GDM then,
> the virtual screen issue isn't tested with Natty until now. If you use
> frame based environments, such as Ion, there are no DE apps to set
> screens and keyboards, this was done by xorg.conf and I had issues last
> time I tried to use several kind of UIs.
>
> > > The GRUB menu entries also, as usual, are a PITA.
> >
> > Again, quite intriguing. How are they a pain?
>
> # cd /boot/grub
> # cp -pr grub.cfg grub.cfg.natty
> # update-grub2
> # cp -pr grub.cfg grub.cfg.bad
> # cp -pr grub.cfg.natty grub.cfg
>
> See attachments, "video", screen resolution, wanted entries differ
> between what I need (manually edited, grub.cfg) and what is
> auto-generated (grub.cfg.bad). This can be much more worse. I tided up
> my HDDs, before I did this, there were a billion distros listed, that
> were not installed anymore.
>
> Ralf
>
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