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By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:27:40 +0000

Greg – I have a dual-boot machine with Ubuntu and Windows XP. Following the Ubuntu upgrade I was able to read the Windows XP NTFS volume.

I’m not sure if you can do this. But you might want to see if you get the same problem running Ubuntu from the live CD. Might help to isolate if it is an upgrade problem.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:28:44 +0000

Did you have any pre-existing ntfs volumes? I did the upgrade and now internal ntfs volumes can’t be read but my external drive with 2 ntfs volumes can.

By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:11:27 +0000

A better way to switch off desktop effect is System -> Preference -> Appearance -> Visual Effects. You can continue using nvidia driver.

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links for 2007-08-29 « The Wayward Word Press — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:22:09 +0000

[...] Ubuntu 7.04 Upgrade First Impressions Today I upgraded my machine from Ubuntu 6.10 to Ubuntu 7.04, and just like my previous upgrade from Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10, the whole process went very smoothly. Apart from a couple of minor issues with the new desktop effects, which I’ll go into more deta (tags: open-source linux ubuntu) [...]

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FreeSoftNews » Blog Archive » Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #38 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:37:08 +0000

[...] * Dean, at Technical Itch, writes about his impressions of doing an upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04 from 6.10. He finds the upgrade instructions easy to follow and finds all his existing applications working after the upgrade. Troublesome videos worked flawlessly after the installation of codecs. Dean thinks Ubuntu 7.04 is a top notch product. Read more at: http://technical-itch.co.uk/2007/04/20/ubuntu-704-upgrade-first-impressions/ [...]

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:48:17 +0000

monkey2 – I’ve been meaning to try out Beryl for a while now. It looks pretty cool. I will try installing it soon and see what results I get.

krud – thanks for the link to the nvidia page. Glad it is just a bug.

By: krud

krud — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:37:29 +0000

The bad refresh rate reporting is a well known “bug” on all distros…

Google “DynamicTwinView” or read below…

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-9742/README/chapter-04.html

By: monkey2

monkey2 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:45:03 +0000

I see the same thing, except 50Hz is actually 75Hz and 55Hz is actually 60Hz. very odd. But well worth having the graphics card drivers installed in my opinion. If you switch to Beryl instead of Compiz as the window manager it gives you masses of configuration options, and even fancier 3D effects. Most are too much, I switched the wobble for menu options off, but you can choose some nice subtle fades, quite OSX like in fact. And the cube effect is a brilliant way to switch desktops