Ubuntu Installation :: Warning When Upgrading To 10.04 \ "Upgrading May Reduce Desktop Effects, And Performance In Games And Other Graphically Intensive Programs?
Sep 29, 2010
i am trying to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 from 8.04, and am getting this warning:"Upgrading may reduce desktop effects, and performance in games and other graphically intensive programs.This computer is currently using the AMD 'fglrx' graphics driver. No version of this driver is available that works with your hardware in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.Do you want to continue?"should i continue? i have no idea what a 'fglrx graphics driver' is
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Oct 16, 2010
planning to upgrade to the next LTS version i.e. 10.04. Have already applied all the updates and got the system up-to-date prior to upgrading. But when the upgrade starts I get the following message: Upgrading may reduce desktop effects and performance in games and other graphically intensive programs.This computer is currently using the AMD 'fglrx' graphics driver. No version of this driver is available that works with your hardware in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Do you want to continue ?Obviously, I clicked on NO and got out.What gives ? How come an upgrade is supposed to DEGRADE performance ? What kind of upgrade is that ? Also what is the implication for me ? Will I have to happy with 8.04 forever ?The machine in question is a Toshiba Satellite A100. I use GIMP quite a bit on it, so problems with graphics intensive applications is kind of worrying.What am I supposed to do ?? Upgrade anyway or stick with 8.04 ?
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May 13, 2010
I first had Ubuntu 9.04 and had to go through a wild goose chase to get effects like wobby windows, cube and all that jazz. When I upgraded to 9.10 I still didn't have any problems with my desktop effects. Once I upgraded to 10.04, I couldn't use any of my effects.
I went into CompizConfig to check what was wrong, but all of my effects were still "checked". I checked the Hardware Drivers and got the drivers I needed (my GPX card is a GeForce 5200) but that still didn't fix the problem. I've tried searching for some kind of instructions in Google, but all of the instructions I've found don't really help. Does anyone know where I can go that addresses this problem and could have a possible solution?
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Jun 5, 2011
I have always paid for new versions of SuSE, but I have just picked up 11.4 Open on a "Linux Format" magazine. Thought I might try it. Can I "upgrade" from a full-paid-for SuSE 11.1 to Open 11.4? And What are the effects? e.g. Do I lose any software? Am I likely to lose my e-mail (KMail)?I read in the forums that people have had trouble with devices (memory stick, hard drives)and with booting. Having used 11.1 for so long I have forgotten all of the "configuration" changes I have made over the years. PS: All 64 bit.
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Apr 28, 2011
After rebooting, the first message i've been shown was: "Your hardware doesn't support Unity". First strange thing: Unity was working perfectly on all the Beta live versions I've tried before the upgrade.
Well, not a big problem, I didn't really like Unity. Let's stay with Gnome + Compiz, I said.. but Compiz effects don't work anymore. When I try to do System --> Preferences --> Appearance, the "effects" tab doesn't show anymore. The file named "screenshot1.png" will show you this problem, even if it's in Italian: there are only the Theme (tema), Background (sfondo) and Fonts (Tipo di carattere) tabs. Also look to the strange, fuzzy right corner of the themes previews. This didn't happen on 10.10. 3d rendering should be working, since I get
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glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes
But nothing works.
System->Administration->Hardware is empty, but it has always been empty, even on 10.10 (but Compiz effects were working). When I try to set Compiz as windows manager in Compiz Fusion Icon, sometimes the title of the windows disappear, along with the minimize, maximize and close buttons. Do you think there's something I can do to fix all these things?
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Jan 30, 2010
Acer veriton 5000 pentium4 1.7mhz 2Gb ram. double booted with win2k.I had no trouble upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to 9.04. For some reason 9.04 would not upgrade to 9.10 so I installed from disc, with minor hics. Now works well but randomly hangs with no warning and I have to switch-off and restart to continue. Very annoying. I do not get any error alert it just hangs and when rebooted carries on quite unperturbed.
Additional info.
on booting in recovery mode got following::
754677 Render error detected eir??????
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Oct 8, 2010
I am using ubuntu 10.04. In my computer I cant enable dasktop effects and cant play other games. when I want to enable dasktop effects, there was a error massage "Desktop effects could not be enabled". my computer's RAM is "2GB", swap is "5.8GB" and video card is "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] (rev 01)" I download and install a software from this site but it doesn't work. now what can I do?
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Apr 30, 2011
does upgrading Ubuntu to 11.04 wipe my files and programs?
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Mar 21, 2010
I use Factory repositories of KDE4 and there are new releases almost every day in that repository. Although I believe that there are useful updates in the packages, I don't think they are really that crucial that I should update them every day.
When I do update, I usually use graphical frontend and select from menu: Packages >> All Packages >> Update if newer version available. That includes all the updates available either for the program or the package.
I'd really like to be able to sort out these packages that have updates for the programs available. Is there any way to do it?
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Oct 15, 2010
1) Disable blur effect in System settings>Desktop effects>All effects.
2) Press Alt+F2 and type oxygen-settings. Then go to "animations" tab and uncheck "enable animations". Also under "Window decorations" uncheck "enable animations".
3) System settings>Application appearance>Style>Fine tuning tab. Choose "Low display resolution and low CPU"
4) System settings>Desktop effects>Advanced tab choose fastest texture filter.
5) If your desktop effect are disabled on every reboot then you'll have to disable functionality checks. Go to System settings>Desktop effects>Advanced and check "disable functionality checks".
6) If you are running opensource drivers (ati or intel cards) you could try to improve your desktop effects with updating your drivers from xorg-edgers ppa. If updated drivers doesn't work better, you could safely downgrade your drivers to official ones with ppa-purge comand.
Code:
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install ppa-purge
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Then reboot. If updated drivers do not work better you can downgrade them:
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May 3, 2011
When I was using Ubunutu 10, I updated the ATI drivers from their web site and the installation failed. There is no uninstall for it that actually works. So, very annoyed, I switched to the VESA driver by editing xorg.conf as shown below.
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 10 to 11.04 and when it booted up it told me that I do not have hardware to run the Unity desktop. Even on a restart the login menu shows the selected desktop as "Ubuntu" (no classic or anything though my desktop looks just like it did in Ubuntu 10).
After upgrading to Ubuntu 11 it seems to have switched to a proprietary ATI graphics driver which actually seems to work very well. Except, no Unity desktop.
If I click System, Administration, Additional drivers it shows one driver and says that it is enabled and in use. The driver is "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver" and in the description it says "3D-accelerated proprietary graphics driver for ATI cards".
Is there a way to explicitly turn on Unity or ask it why it doesnt want to run?
lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5670]
$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
Segmentation fault
I do not really care which driver I use. I have been told there is a new driver included in Ubuntu 11 that supports my video card. Is that the driver I listed above or is thee another that I can activate somehow. What shall I do? I just want Unity to work.
Try disable this driver? Will it automatically pick up some default? Do I have to delete or do something to xorg.conf as well?
Is there a way to tell Ubuntu "forget whatever video card driver or configuration is in place and go back to the default for a new install"? I have tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" but all it does is ask for a password and then does nothing. Everyone says to run this buts its never done anything for me.
/etc/X11$ cat xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier"Configured Video Device"
Driver"vesa"
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Aug 18, 2011
when i ran an upgrade in squeeze, there was an updated virtualbox package.When the upgrade of virtualbox finished, I got a warning like this one "insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (1) of script `vboxdrv' overwrites defaults (0 1 6)."From my understanding, this is not critical by any means, but I would like to know a little about why this happens and if there's something you should do when it does.By the way, I get virtualbox from the "virtualbox.org" repository for squeeze.
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Mar 4, 2010
I've just installed 8.04. and I was googling on the net and saw that there's a more new version 9.10 is it? So I tried following the guide on [url]
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Mar 9, 2010
I'm trying to do the upgrade but get the following error:
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root@server:~# do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new ubuntu release
Done Upgrade tool
Done Upgrade tool signature
Done downloading
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Apr 30, 2010
I've had the 10.04 installed on a notebook for about a week now and I want to upgrade to the LTS that was released today. When I go to check updates it shows me that everything is already updated. How can this be? Is there another way to upgrade from RC to LTS that I don't know about?
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Jun 16, 2010
Installed 7.04 on a toshiba satellite M115 Laptop. I want to upgrade to 10.04. Made a boot disk and tried to launch but 7.04 always opens. How can I get this upgrade done?
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Jun 24, 2010
I am upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1. This is on my gaming machine so I can test it and if it screws my system up, I can reinstall. I have not seen any issues so far. I think there might be a thread already open for talking about 10.10 but I am creating this thread anyways.
The upgrade is going faster than when i first did the upgrade earlier this month.I am testing Ubuntu 10.10 on a computer with a 1.6Ghz AMD 64 processor.It has 3 GB ram and a 500GB hard drive. 128 MB video ram.
Note: This is The emachines EL 1200-06w I am using a Belkin wireless card which is only able to be used with the help of Windows Wireless Drivers (ndiswrapper).
I plan to report bugs in launchpad. Last time, Ubuntu could not start after an update. Now, I am risking down time by using the Alpha version again. I am installing by going to: Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal In Terminal, I enter in
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sudo update-manager -d and then it asks for a password to open update manager. Then it shows the upgrade is available. I am still at the process of upgrading the computer. I am running Ubunut 10.04 32 bit at the moment.
UPDATE: I didn't need ndiswrapper, and I am able to now use Natty, where it works as it should.
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Oct 23, 2010
Recently I wanted to install Ubuntu 10.04 from a CD which I had sent to me, but which I never actually used. So I put the CD in my laptop, used Wubi to install Lucid Lynx next to Windows in dual-boot, and restarted the laptop. Everything was OK. I noticed that the Update Manager didn't come up yet. I glanced at the notification area, and I wasn't connected to the Internet. So I entered wireless connection password and so Internet was back.I then opened Update Manager, changed release options to "Normal Releases" and was told of upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10. So I pressed the button, successfully updated and restarted. BUT, when Ubuntu tried to reboot, it gave a whole list of errors, and proceeded to shut down. Right now I'm manually downloading 10.10 64-bit, and Wubi. And I uninstalled previous installation. If this works, then great. But I still want to know, just out of interest, why the hell did it do that? Is there issues with the upgrade? Was there errors in my Ubuntu installation?
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Nov 28, 2010
I have perfectly working Ubuntu 10.04 on my Dell Vostro 1500 laptop. But, yesterday I upgraded it to Ubuntu 10.10. There were various error messages during upgrade process, but it showed that I can continue without certain package. But, after restarting the laptop, I didn't found the new kernel entry in the GRUB. So, I continued with booting using older kernel version. It showed that ubuntu is booting but after sometime screen went totally blank. I even tried to boot into recovery mode, but faced same problem.
Then I booted with live CD, and chroot to the root folder of ubuntu on my HDD. After running command "dpkg --configure -a" I got error messages which are stored in attached file error-msg.txt.I cannot format the linux partition for a clean install. Please suggest solution for either recovery of 10.10 or restoration of 10.04.
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Dec 26, 2010
I currently have Ubuntu 9.04 Installed and everything works perfectly. Its no longer allowing me to do the automatic updates saying my distribution version isnt supported anymore, and want to upgrade to 10.10.
When version 9.10 came out I upgraded through the Update Manager, and it screwed up the install and nothing worked. I ended up deleting everything and started from scratch. I dont want to go through that again.
I was wondering the easiest way to upgrade to version 10.10, because even the Update Manager only gives me the option to upgrade to version 9.10
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Apr 7, 2011
I have an acer emachines netbook and I am looking to upgrade from 9.10.
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Apr 16, 2011
I have what it may seem to most of you a nooby question but it is the first time for me that a new version of Ubuntu comes out, so I want to know if I will have to do a new "clean" installation of 11.04 when it's released or will it be some sort of upgrade from software center. If I have to do a new installation is there a way to reinstall all the programs I have all at once or maybe take a backup of them or will I have to install them all one by one?
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Apr 29, 2011
I am trying to upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 and I have Failed to Fetch error. I tried to change Download Server but it didn't help.
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May 3, 2011
I found no similar threads so I created a new one.
I have w7 and ubuntu on a dual boot arrange. I need them both and I need ubuntu to see my files in c:.
Life was fine before the upgrade, but now I just can't see my c: drive.
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May 7, 2011
Is it possible to accomplish this? Or do I have to install each subsequent version until I reach 11.1? When I run the update manager it never informs me of a new release.
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Feb 26, 2010
While upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 using Alternate CD, the OS crashed. I had updated the 9.04 with latest updates and then started the upgradation to 9.10 using a Alternate CD. But after some time, the computer resarted and the screen displayed six line of 9.04 startup line. I waited for ten minutes but nothing happned.
What can be the reason and what should be done in that situation.
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Mar 22, 2010
I'm upgrading from an AMD XP 2300 chip on an ECS motherboard to a intel i5 chip on a ASUS motherboard. I was wondering if I will encounter any problems or if the system will work right away without reinstallation.
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Mar 25, 2010
I wanted to use Ubuntu on one of my old laptops (a great, speedy modern OS on a modest hardware PC). Unfortunately this PC can not at the time read all CD-ROM's (can't figure out why it does read some) and I've installed Ubuntu 7.10 - the only CD it did read at the time.
I've used it for two years but I never got my wireless card to work (OK, most of the time it was collecting dust) A couple of days ago I finally realized how to use ndiswrapper (lol...) and I was able to get a working Wi-Fi connection on this laptop. I then proceeded to upgrade it over the internet, to Ubuntu 8.04, then 8.10, then 9.04 and, last night, to 9.10.It has worked through each and every of these updates, but after 9.10 the PC won't even boot (after "GRUB loading...).
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Apr 29, 2010
I'll probably be taking my netbook up to Lucid here in a few days. My question is if I should bother with the Netbook Edition or just get the standard edition? Are there any packages in the netbook edition that can help with processing, power, etc on a netbook? More importantly, can the special netbook desktop be turned off in favor of the standard UI?
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Apr 29, 2010
Getting my 8.04 system ready to upgrade to 10.04 by doing all the upgrades but running into the following. It looks like the update-rc.d script it being passed bad arguments?
Code:
$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
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