View source for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

= Intro =

Recently I said good-bye to the not-so-often-used version of Ubuntu 5.10 and replaced it with the most recent version 7.10 (again only one CD-ROM, which was the main reason to install it).

= Download =

Downloaded the CD-ROM image from one of the ftp servers, painless.

= Basic install =

Install went painless except for one thing -the mouse.

= Tweaking =

== The serial mouse ==

I use an old serial MouseMan from Logitech, which is not even detected by the 7.10 version.

Surfing the net was not a big deal except, that all recipies found there where incomplete.

Here's what you should do to get your Serial MouseMan working correctly:

Edit <tt>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</tt> and change the "InputDevice" section like this:

<pre>
Section      "InputDevice"
  Identifier "Configured Mouse"
  Driver     "mouse"
  Option     "CorePointer"
  Option     "Device"       "/dev/ttyS0"
  Option     "Protocol"     "Microsoft"
EndSection
</pre>

Depending on your connector, it could also be <tt>"/dev/ttyS1"</tt> (the second serial port).

The protocoll should be <tt>"Microsoft"</tt>. On my machine, leaving this on <tt>"Auto"</tt> did not work. because it led to very long delays (30 sec or so) after X-Server restart until the mouse decided, that it was really there and would move.

== Another theme ==

Let's face it. Brown sucks. I replaced the standard theme with that of Ubuntu Studio -pretty nice:

Edit <tt>/etc/apt/sources.list</tt>, append this

<pre>
deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio gutsy main
</pre>

Afterwards execute the following commands from a shell:

<pre>
wget http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look ubuntustudio-theme ubuntustudio-icon-theme ubuntustudio-wallpapers
</pre>

as described on http://www.belutz.net/2007/05/11/installing-ubuntu-studio-theme/. Works more or less (still some brown left here and there). Yuck.

= Things which don't work =

Graphics acceleration works, but Ubuntu refuses to start the 3D-effects for the desktop. I use a pretty ancient nVidia GeForce2MX. Haven't had the time to look into the reason for this. Apart from that, everything works fine.