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Ubuntu install step 6
Okay. The reboot worked. Marvellous. Monitors working just as I wanted.
The drivers must have been updated from last summer when I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on this same machine but couldn't get three major things to work.
1. Dual monitors
2. Adobe Air
3. Webcam would work on Skype but not on Seesmic.com
So the first one is sorted. Now for the second.
Adobe Air has lots of great little apps and I like the twitter clients more than any other. TweetDeck is my current app of choice after I skinned it to get rid of all that black which did my head in after a while. So I open firefox, search adobe air and download the linux app - easy.
It arrives on my desktop as AdobeAIRInstaller.bin. I double-click it and it spits at me not knowing which app to run the file with. OK. After playing about with the Add/Remove tool and System Packet Manager I revert to google to find the answer. The first link I tried was unhelpful but the Yahoo Answers (2nd link) worked a treat.
I moved the file to my Home folder.
I ran the Terminal (don't be scared).
And typed the following:
daibarnes@ubuntu:~$ chmod 755 AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
daibarnes@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
[sudo] password for daibarnes:
First I did it without the filename in CAPS and it didn't work.
Then it said I was installing something else but I had just left the Synaptic Package Manager open, so I closed it and repeated the code and it worked. Just started the install running as it does in Windows.
Cool. Again.
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Ubuntu install step 5
Doh! Just noticed that monitors have gone dual but I can't drag windows between them (see image). They sort of got stuck half way.
Anyway, updates finished and reboot requested. So lets see...
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Ubuntu install step 4
Okay, I'm checking out the issues.
My main worry is dual display. I run two monitors and ubuntu only mirrors them. I can change the resolution to suit each one but they show the same thing. I went to system then hardware drivers. It showed the nvidia driver it recommended so I activated it. Ubuntu then downloads and installs but needs to reboot to effect changes. Still not sure if it will work.
As it was doing this the update manager prompted me to get the latest updates. The disk is relatively old and needs updating so I agreed and 173 downloads were made and are being installed before I reboot.
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