ubuntu 12.10

How to change Desktop Environments in Ubuntu 12.10

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If you want to change Unity and install anything else (like KDE) in Ubuntu 12.10, then this article is for you. Just copy-paste the commands into your terminal, press enter … wait a little bit for the packages to download and you are ready. Logout, pick your favourite Desktop Environment and log back in. It’s … Read more

Get Crossover for free (only for today)

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Hurry up guys! CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications on your Linux computer. Your applications integrate seamlessly into Ubuntu; just click and run. No rebooting, no switching to a virtual machine, and no Windows Operating System license required! CrossOver lets you run many applications such as Microsoft Office and Quicken. It also … Read more

How to fix your AMD Graphics in Ubuntu 12.10 (updated)

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The last week or so has been one of transition for AMD’s Catalyst driver, especially for those you have a quite old Radeon GPU. Alongside the launch of Ubuntu 12.10 – that comes with new xorg 1.13 and breaks the fglrx (aka Catalyst 12.9) – AMD has also drop the support for Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000 or HD 2000 graphics cards, forcing a broken upgrade up to Quantal 12.10. On the development side of things, this problem is not 100% percent related to Ubuntu 12.10, but it comes with the new version of xorg 1.13 that is included in Quantal, meaning that you need to downgrade xorg down to 1.12.  So for the time being there is no AMD Legacy support with X-Server 1.13, and you need to downgrade. Capping this off, the solution comes from inside the root of the problem, thus AMD’s driver team has launched a new driver for these outdated GPU models, called Catalyst Legacy.

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How to install nVIDIA 310.14 drivers, major changes

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NVIDIA has released a new (beta) Linux graphics drivers for Linux community. The latest beta nVIDIA 310.14 driver is now available for download. This time nVIDIA comes with some new major changes, such as fixing (at laaaast) the Youtube-blue-face bug caused Adobe Flash and libvdpau. Next to that, VDPAU is optimized for significant improvement in moving … Read more

AMD Catalyst 12.9 released – Install Guide (updated)

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The latest AMD Catalyst 12.9 was released yesterday (13/9/12) . The most significant change here is that Catalyst 9 improves your embedded Radeon graphics. For example if you’re using a netbook with an AMD CPU, then you have better support for its embedded IGPU, like E6760, E6460 etc.

Last but not least, the AMD hasn’t updated their website, thus this link is located under embedded graphics, not PC Desktop. Hopefully they will update their website during the next 24 hours.

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Fix startx failure on PowerXpress A+A platforms
– Fix performance downgrade with 3DMarkVantage
– Fix startx failure on some specific ASICs
– Fix PowerPlay settings not persistent after reboot
– Fix problem that the hardware information is shown twice in AMD CCC:LE for Power Saving mode of PowerXpress A+A
– Fix severe corruption when switch between multiple X servers
– Fix cursor disappear when open AMD CCC:LE with specific steps
– Fix suspend/resume hang on PowerXpress A+A in Power-Saving mode
– Fix system hang after panning
– Fix system font change after enable Xinerama
– Fix X crash when run 32bit AMD CCC:LE on 64bit system
– Fix the issue that monitor goes into sleep for some ASICs after kill X

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Click to download the drivers for 64/32 bit (the package contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit driver.).

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Currently you can’t install this driver using Xorg-Edgers PPA because the repository has not been updated yet. You have to built it by you own following the hard(manual) way.

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