Xp killed my fresh ubuntu
As the picture above shows, Linux is friendly with windows. I run XP virtual machines inside ubuntu rather than booting into windows. I dual boot and XP has a small partition for gaming purposes. Well Friday night I decided to wipe my whole system cuz it had Windows Vista and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on there. Vista was such a pile of crap. It ran so slow and was annoying as hell. Gusty Gibbon, the new release of ubuntu was out and I wanted to go with that. I wanted to get XP back on there so I could get the new HL2 loaded up on there.
Loaded up XP then Gusty via a alt install. For some reason it did not load the grub boot loader so I could only boot if the ubuntu CD was in there. Long story short I reinstalled again. Well getting ready for HL2 I got windows all updated and got steam loaded in there so it could install all my games. Booted back into ubuntu and I could not get networking working at all. It worked fine in XP so I knew it was something to do with the ubuntu install. Gusty is still beta, so I was pushing it anyway.
Looked around and found this.
As of 27 May 2007, in kernel 2.6.21.3, you may experience the issues with the r8169 driver if you dual boot Windows on some systems. Windows by defaults disables the NIC at Windows shutdown time in order to disable Wake-On-Lan, and this NIC will remain disabled until the next time Windows turns it on. The r8169 driver in the kernel does not know how to turn the NIC on from this disabled state; therefore, the device will not respond, even if the driver loads and reports that the device is up. To work around this problem, simply enable the feature “Wake-on-lan after shutdown.” You can set this options through Windows’ device manager.
Edit: Problem with dual-booting with Windows exist also in 2.6.19.5 and 2.6.20.8 kernel, so it is safe to assume that it will concern all 2.6 kernels until the kernel developers update the drivers for RTL8168 to the version that will be able to turn on the NIC from disabled state. (Corey)
Wow a windows update hosed my ubuntu. Now I guess it is the folks who wrote the 2.6 kernel, but that just blows. I am really looking forward to portal and the other stuff that comes with the orange box. And I am about 1/2 way through metroid. Looks like I will have enough gaming to make it to the new year.
Portal
This was the first time I have chosen compiz fusion as my window and composting manager. i had been sticking with beryl and only messed around with compiz fusion. CF has come a long way. First it handles my dual monitor setup correctly now. One large cube spans both screens and it is aware of the screen split when windows open. Second, it has so many more things and extras in there. I am just starting to play and explore them. Windows with its glossy window borders does not even come close. Not to mention it came default in Gusty.
It looks so awesome.
I’m planning on installing Ubuntu on my MacBook soon. Soon…
Comment by jschwa — October 9, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
Have you tried wine for gaming?
Comment by joetaxpayer — October 28, 2007 @ 10:47 am
nope. In fact never tried wine. Have been thinking of messing with it though.
Comment by beerorkid — October 28, 2007 @ 11:15 am
meither, but I hope it will work. If not, I was thinking about doing a fresh ubuntu install anyway. How much room does an XP partition need?
Comment by joetaxpayer — November 15, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
guess it depends on what you are gonna do in it. I gave mine 12 so I could load stem on there.
At work we make all our virtual servers 8gb which is plenty.
I make my virtual XP boxes with 10gb cuz they are just processing stuff on my network share, not their virtual drives.
Comment by beerorkid — November 15, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
I played around trying to get a torrent copy of HL2 to work in wine last night, and it was more than a little bit of a headache.
With all the instability/issues people have, it seems like it would be a lot easier to have a partition with XP (or vista, *blehk*) for strictly gaming purposes. I have some HD space to spare, so no sweat.
Comment by joetaxpayer — November 16, 2007 @ 10:58 am
Wait…so did you ever get this set up (what you were attempting in the OP)? I think that would be what I would want to do, but I didn’t know you could run things in a virtual XP terminal while in Ubuntu.
Any good destructions for that?
Comment by joetaxpayer — November 16, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
oh yeah been doing it for a long time actually.
my hard drive has basically two partitions.
20gb for the XP partition and 50gb for the ubuntu. (72gb 10,000 RPM raptor drive)
Then in ubuntu I run vmware and have virtual XP machines. (nothing to do with the 20 gb I give an XP partition)
I will write up a nice post on it later tonight or tomorrow. Still at work.
Comment by beerorkid — November 16, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
ok, can’t wait. So you can play games on the vmware virtual machine without an XP install? Thanks!
Comment by joetaxpayer — November 16, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
no games
virtual machines do not take advantage of good graphics cards, no 3D.
that is the bummer. Plus performance would be hurt a bit.
With VMware workstation there is a way to enable graphics acceleration, but it is not the best and workstation costs $
I am using virtualbox at work for my XP VM. it is in the ubuntu repositories and is much easier to get going than vmware server.
Comment by beerorkid — November 16, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
Oh, I see. I’ll probably jus set up a 20GB XP partition then.
Comment by joetaxpayer — November 16, 2007 @ 7:29 pm