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Ubuntu Karmic Koala and Python setuptools

kc — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:06:46 +0000

This weekend I’ve upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu Karmic Koala. The upgrade was easy and Karmic looks and runs smoother than the previous version. I encountered one small problem with Python setuptools and subversion.

I use Setuptools 0.6c9 to create Python eggs. It happens that the latest Setuptools won’t play well with subversion 1.6 (shipped with Karmic).

When creating an egg with:

python setup.py bdist_egg

I got this error:

subversion unrecognized .svn/entries format

You can fix this by running a patch from the setuptools team, download the most recent patch from the issue page. Find out where setuptools lives in your site-packages and apply the patch. More details here if you’re not familiar with site-packages and applying patches.

Ubuntu release party in Groningen

kc — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:59:24 +0000

Vandaag is Ubuntu 9.04 uitgekomen. Deze release is ook bekend als ‘Jaunty Jackalope’. Op donderdag 7 mei 2009 is er een release party georganiseerd door NN-Open. Vanaf 16:00 gaan de deuren open. Kom langs voor een borrel!

Release party in agenda NN-Open met locatie details.

Ubuntu Jaunty upgrade with ATI/AMD graphics

kc — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:48:29 +0000

Today the release candidate of Ubuntu Jaunty came out. Ofcourse I want to use the latest and greatest Ubuntu! After running ‘updatemanager -d’ to do a dist-upgrade I got a warning that fglrx (ATI proprietary driver) wouldn’t work. Pff so what, I want to upgrade…

Dist-upgrading to Jaunty didn’t go smooth. But who said this is a easy road when you try beta stuff. First I had to run the upgrade from the terminal with ‘do-release-upgrade’. When it was finished (to early..) I ended with a broken upgrade. Fortunately I succeeded to upgrade after booting into recovery mode with the option ‘fix dpkg’.

Hmm all seemed well after booting but I endedup with all strange lines on my laptop screen. No login screen, even when I tried the open source ATI driver. Seems the flgrx driver interferes with the radeon driver…

See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/FglrxInteferesWithRadeonDriver

Fixed it with:

  sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh  # (if it exists)
  sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
  sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
  sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
  sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
  dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Now Jaunty is running like a crazy kralting using open source ati drivers. Compiz works great even with a dual head setup. There one flaw when playing 3D games (like Nexuiz) Ubuntu freezes…