Linux help

[trevelyn]

hi.  I am really pissed off at Ubuntu right now.
Here's what I said 1 week ago without response from their "awesome" support forum:

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Ubuntu 7.10 with MacBook white 13" late 2006 rev2.

1. when i use pidgin or kopete with my WLAN card, i lose connection entirely to the router.
1a. when i use ethernet, it's fine all day long.

2.When i am listening to mp3's with XMMS my file system sometimes become completely unreadable until i restart X windows. (exempli gratia: mp3 icons become unknown mime type icons. -- actually everything does, and i can't navigate folders without the stupidest error i've ever seen tell me "The contents of this folder cannot be accessed right now")
- Ive lost a lot of data with that one.

3.while using some wifi applications from the terminal i get a dumped core with an error similar to "/dev/rtc cannot be accessed" I don't remember the original message because i fear using those programs because of that message and i just.. dont.

4. What does it mean when Apt says a package depends on another package that is "not installable?" even if it's listed in the repos.

5. Suspend works, but %50 of the time. ? has that been fixed yet?

6. I have to (every now and then) go into my "system->preferneces->universal access->keyboard accessability-> and click the mouse keys tab, then REcheck the "enable mouse keys" button.. I'd say 3 out of every 5 logins. Is there a way to make that permenant?
here's what happened next (today)

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Ive tried seeing if my install disc was bad, but that's not the case.

ok, here's a new one.. i have a new 100GB drive in my MacBook and dual boot to Leopard and Gutsy.

Gutsy is garbage on my hardware. I only use it cos the function keys work fine and I am a bigger linux fan than OSX.

Now all of a sudden, i can't even boot into Gutsy, and get an "ata3.01 exception Emask" hardware failure, but can boot into OS X just fine. I searched Google for strings found in the errors and found out the hardware is fine but it's some sort of bug.

Suspend is actually working less and less, now it's down to about %10 of the time, the machine will wake.

The filesystem becoming unreadable and writable is quite annoying. I am not sure how restarting X is able to fix this problem, but it happens to both my old drive and my new drive. If no one else encountered this, I am willing to take my computer back to Apple and say that the board may have issues, or the backplane (if it has one, my SPARC machine has one for SCSI and i remember when changing the HD when i first saw the error and thought i saw one back in the hole of the bay)

Has anyone else tried any other versions of Linux on their MacBooks? Are there any others with support for the keys and system fans and such? thanks in advance if somone knows of a good alternative for me to try.

Today I am going to try fedora core 6.  Has anyone tried that yet?  I want to play with the MythTV shit.  And mr doc is right, all package managers are easy to use.  I have just been under a painful Slackware influence, of dependency errors from like 3.1 I have to get over it.
I am not sorry for sticking up for Ubuntu all these years, It works beautifully on all of my hardwares besides the Apple.  I just hate being someone who has to change things even when they are working.  I am addicted to Linux.

I am an addict -_-

I think I am addicted to Burt's Bee's now too.. God help me.

 

[mr_doc]

kopete has never worked flawlessly for me on any version of linux  and I hate it.

4. What does it mean when Apt says a package depends on another package that is "not installable?" even if it's listed in the repos.

My guess is it will conflict with your specific hardware

[z3wb]

Stop using unreliable open-source software.

[trevelyn]

Stop using unreliable open-source software.

well the Sparc machine i want is $8000, once i get a new job I will buy it and throw my macbook into the allegheny river from the smithfield bridge.

[trevelyn]

actually the smithfield is over the monongahela, man I must have been pissed off to muck that up.  Anyways Yea, I switched to 64 Bit Ubuntu and all errors are gone.  I had no idea this whole time that AMD designed the insrtuction of my Intel Core 2 Duo.. ?? AND it's 64 bit. <3

[MattGSX]

Stop using unreliable open-source software.

well the Sparc machine i want is $8000, once i get a new job I will buy it and throw my macbook into the allegheny river from the smithfield bridge.

If by throw it in the river you mean mail it to MattGSX, then okay!

I realized this morning that I haven't used my laptop in almost a month.

[trevelyn]

you wouldn't want this curse, believe me..

[mrgreg846]

if you have a mac why do you need Linux? OSX with darwinports has all you need. the only good use of Ubuntu is on a PC where the choice is Linux, or the OS microsoft shits out of it's STD infected asshole every few years.

[trevelyn]

if you have a mac why do you need Linux? OSX with darwinports has all you need. the only good use of Ubuntu is on a PC where the choice is Linux, or the OS microsoft shits out of it's STD infected asshole every few years.

Linux is a web crawling spider; OSX is an Internet mosquito;
OSX thought the 7-layer model - referred to a burrito.

[Tachyon]

mmmmm....burrito.

[Nod]

S1acker said he would help in another thread but I didn't want to take over that one or start a new Linux thread when there already was one. All advice is appreciated though.

I'm having trouble getting Damned Small Linux to save to the hard drive while running embedded in Windows.To me, that just seems like it would be the most comfortable way to learn Linux. The version that I have runs on Qemu Virtual Machine and to get it to natively save and load from a drive you have to create a virtual one using by opening a DOS command prompt and going into the Qemu folder and running qemu-img.exe. Apparently I'm not doing that right because I have yet to create a drive. According to the readme.txt the correct syntax is qemu-img.exe create harddisk [size]. Qemu, however, keeps telling me my syntax is wrong but it seems like no matter how hard I try I can't get it right. I managed it somehow last night but deleted it because I couldn't figure out how to get the damn drive to load because I have no idea what I'm doing and the instructions say nothing about loading that drive. Do I have to open a DOS prompt, CD to the QEMU directory and tell the program to load the drive that way?

[Tachyon]

Way to hijack my burrito thread.

[Nod]

Way to hijack my burrito thread.

My love, My endless love.

What? Friends listen to Endless Love in the dark.

[MattGSX]

Nod,

The "install to hard drive" function you're looking at is probably the one that is really made for IDE Compact Flash drives. I corrupted my hard drive a couple times falling for that. Search the DSL wiki for IDE HDD (non-CF) installs, and then just do the same thing but through either Qemu (or, in my preferred case, though VMWare). Also, if you install VMWare player or Workstation, I'm fairly sure someone has a pre-made virtual machine with a Damn Small install in the appliances collection.

[Nod]

I'll try it out with VMWare and see if I can't get it to do what I want that way.