Showing posts with label Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Read temperature from sensors in GPU

The powerful tool is xsensors:
First install lm-sensors:
$ sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
Then run sensors-detect in root
$ sudo sensors-detect
Answer YES to all.
Then run sudo /etc/init.d/module-init-tools restart
Answer No.
Next install xsensors and run it by:
$ sudo apt-get install xsensors
$ sudo xsensors

Thursday, May 5, 2011

UBUNTU 11.04 again can not boot because the NVIDIA driver

Yesterday I update the other computer's system to Ubuntu 11.04. The result was very disappointment.
The system went to die when it rebooted. The reason behind this is the graphic card driver: NVIDIA. I download the new version NVIDIA driver for my computer, and try to reinstall the driver.
There is the other problem show up : it can't find the header file of linux kernel.
Then I use the --kernel-source-path to tell the program where the headers are.
The other problem turn out: the "nvidia.ko" can not be loaded because the kernel version doesn't match. The kernel version can be found out by command "uname -al".
The corresponding kernel header which is ending with "pae" which I don't have. Then I use aptitude to install this header and compile the nvidia driver again. Now it works.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

A little bit shock by the New Ubuntu 11.04

Today a new message just show up: the new ubuntu 11.04 comes.
Then I choose update to the new version. I thought everything will be fine.
However, after long time update, the computer restart, but no screen be found.
After I check the log files of system and xserver, finally I figure out the reason is the installed NVIDIA driver doesn't compatible with this new ubuntu.
I download a new version of NVIDIA driver, which is (270.40).
Surprisingly, now it works......
The new desktop of ubuntu looks so simple and a little stupid.
I have to learn how to find the applications and the configure programs, etc..
There are no panel bar anymore, and everything seems be hided.
I don't like this style. I prefer everything can be easily found or seen.
So if you have the same feeling, just go to the "login screen" and select "ubuntu classic" as default session.
I like the classic....