Christoffer Kjølbæk » Ubuntu 10.04

Evolution 2.30.1 for Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit

Christoffer Kjølbæk — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:42:25 +0000

For some reason Ubuntu 10.04 is shipped with Evolution 2.28.3, which for me is quite unstable. Crashes with Segmentation Fault very often. However, Jacob Zimmermann has a PPA with Evolution 2.30.1:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jacob/evo230
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I hope this is more stable!

Ubuntu 10.04 @ Lenovo ThinkPad T410s

Christoffer Kjølbæk — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:59:20 +0000

Works out of the box

Graphics (Intel GMA HD Graphics)
Wlan
Lan
Webcam, tested in Skype
Touchpad and trackpoint

Works with some tweaking

~~USB was not working out of the box, but after an kernel update (to 2.6.32-22 64 bit) it started working~~
There was not sound out of the box, but a work-around is found at launchpad.net

Not tested

Fingerprint reader
Card reader
CD/DVD writer
e-SATA

Updated 13 June
USB do not work, unless some device is attached when the computer i booting :(

Installing VirtualBox (non-free) in Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

Christoffer Kjølbæk — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:37:41 +0000

sudo -s "echo 'deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian\
 lucid non-free' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.2

Flash in Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit

Christoffer Kjølbæk — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:35:11 +0000

Installing Adobe Flash from the repository in Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit gives you the 32 bit version and runs it with nspluginwrapper. I have experienced several problems with this solution in Firefox, and is therefore using Adobes 64 bit Linux version.

Uninstall the repository version of flash

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer nspluginwrapper

Get the Adobes Linux version from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html and install it:

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Restart Firefox

Update: June 6th
I have switched back to the "Ubuntu" Flash, because I was unable to use pages from ipapercms.dk:

sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

The flickering seems to disappear when all the fancy visual effects are disabled.