Last night I mentioned in the Mounting ‘Data’ Drive & Other Ubuntu Stuff post was having trouble playing music in Rythmbox or Totem when doing anything in Fx3a5pre. So this morning I was going to try using Fx 2.0.0.3 and see if it made a difference. However, when I directly booted (from when I turned the machine on) into Ubuntu, I didn’t have any sound. This has happened a couple nights ago but then last night it was fine. FWIW, below is my Sound Preferences screen. I am using a Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI512 and I also have (but…

On the Places/Bookmarks now on Fx 3 Alpha 5 post, ‘cd‘ had asked how I was able to finally get my ‘Data’ Drive (now drives as I seemed to have split it into two partitions) mounted. Thanks to spock1982 on the CyberNet Forum I found out that I needed to install the NTFS Configuration Tool. This was a rather simple process, well a lot simpler then reconfiguring the x-server (so I could get the 1440×900 screen resolution) which I screwed up the first time. Luckily I had made a backup and was able to restore my original xorg.conf via the…

A little over a year later since Places was removed from the then under development Fx 2, it appears it is finally starting to take shape for Fx 3. From the mozilla Developers News blog: The Firefox Places team has been hard at work to get the bookmarks portion of Places in shape for it to go out with Firefox 3 Alpha 5 scheduled later this month. And we are excited to let you all know that last week we enabled the Places implementation of bookmarks on the trunk. Although there is still much to be done, this is an…

Looks like we are getting very close to the final Fx 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4 releases. Today on mozilla Developer News: Firefox 1.5.0.12rc2 / 2.0.0.4rc3 coming to a beta channel near you At around 4pm PDT this afternoon, Firefox 1.5.0.x and Firefox 2.0.0.x users on the “beta” update channel will be receiving updates to Firefox 1.5.0.12rc2 and Firefox 2.0.0.4rc3, respectively.Feedback about these release candidates should be directed to the mozilla.feedback.firefox.prerelease newsgroup.  

Here the latest Mozilla news: Fx 2.0.0.4 RC3 testing completed will be upgrade to beta later this week.  Final release scheduled for Wednesday, May 30th Fx/TBird 1.5.0.12 testing nearly completed Fx 3.0a5pre updates, Places Bookmarks Landed, Password Manager Update Landed. a5 release scheduled for May 31st Complete meeting notes

Okay,  I’m back in Ubuntu now!  It turned out be as simple as disabling APIC in the BIOS.  I downloaded and unpacked (instead of installing) Firefox 3.0a5pre (Fx 3 nightly build).  Below are a couple of screen shots (click for full-size in new tab): Firefox 3.0a5pre in Ubuntu (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070519 Minefield/3.0a5pre) My Ubuntu Desktop. I am still using the default background.  Unlike Windows when your first install and run Ubuntu, your desktop is completely blank.  The only two items I have on there right now is the link to Fx 3.0a5pre as well as…

Early I wrote Ubuntu Success!, however now whenever I try to start Ubuntu it won’t start. Either I get a black screen with “Starting…” over if try to do recovery/rescue it does a bunch of stuff then stops after “Enabling IO-APIC IRQs”. I am posting over the Ubuntu Forums and see if they can give me some direction with this issue and why I couldn’t get my “data” drive to work (my Windows XP drive was okay). MagniolaSouth asked in the prior post about screenshots, once I can get it working and find a good screenshot program (FastStone is only…

Before I went to bed last night I started downloading the alternate desktop CD for Ubuntu. Checked this morning and it has successfully downloaded and as able to burn it onto a CD. Even better I was able to boot from the CD and get Ubuntu installed and working. So as the saying goes, “The third time is the charm!” So far so good. Only minor problem I have had so far is I can’t set my resolution to 1440×900 so I am using 1280×960. Also for whatever reason I can not get Ubuntu to read my data drive. It…