25.5.08

Ubuntu-Upgrade fom Gutsy to Hardy

Hello again!

First of all, the folks at Ubuntu did a realy remarkable job!

The upgrade on my Acer Aspire 5020 Notebook (AMD Turion, ATI Radeon X600, 64-bit version) went really smooth. I had to decide wether I would keep may old samba and xorg.conf or wether to get the latest (I chose last) and after reboot I had to connect via LAN (the upgrade was done via WLAN) to get the BCM4306-wireless driver. Done!

On my older Desktop (AMD Durion, nVidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400, 32 bit) the upgade was the same, but after the reboot graphics was only working in low-resolution vesa mode.
sudo dpkg -reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
corrected the problem.

After reboot I had to change the keyboard settings, therefore I opened a konsole and launched a texteditor:
gksu gedit /etc/x11/xorg.conf

And under Option
"XkbLayout" "en"
I set the option instead of "en" to "de" and saved the file.

Since I have an old Bios,
gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
opened the grub-configuration file and I inserted
acpi=force
in the kernel-section after
splash


On both systems sudo wasn't working correctly. The host wasn't found.
So
gksu gedit /etc/hosts
opened the hosts-file.
127.0.1.1 hostname.domain
has to be changed solely to hostname

Voilá!
Not a big issue and now I have a really slick system!

Hope this helped someone!!

Till next time,
docnic

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