The update itself went well, but as expected, I experienced several issues after starting up my new Ubuntu system. So I decided to make a list of all the things that hassle me at the moment. Some problems were easy to solve, for others I have yet to find a good solution.

1. ATI graphics drivers

Bad news for users of older ATI graphic cards. Several ATI Radeon™ graphic cards were moved to a legacy driver support structure in the new version of the proprietary driver for Linux (Catalyst 9.4). Visit this page at amd.com for more information.

The real problem about this is that the version 9.3 which does support these cards is not compatible with X server 1.6 which is included in the new Ubuntu release. Hopefully AMD will come up with a version that supports older cards and work with X server 1.6. Till then I have to use the Open-source driver radeon.

With the radeon driver I was not able to start Compiz. It keeps saying “No whitelisted driver found”. The good part is that Ubuntu feels much faster without all the eye-candy, I do miss my desktop cube though.

2. Mounting a Sansa Media Player

My Sansa e260 would not mount when plugged in using MSC mode, but I found a good description how to resolve this issue.

3. Tracker index corrupted

Today this dialog suddenly appeared, saying that the Tracker index is corrupted.

OK and Cancel didn’t do anything. The dialog simply reappeared. “Reindex all contents” seemed to cause the Tracker daemon to freeze. There already is a bug filed and an entry in the Jaunty release notes.

This is how I was able to fix this:

1. Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)
2. Install the package ‘tracker-utils’

   $ sudo apt-get install tracker-utils

3. Use this command to kill all running Tracker processes and remove all databases

   $ tracker-processes -r

4. And finally restart Tracker daemon and the Tracker applet

   $ /usr/lib/tracker/trackerd & tracker-applet & exit

4. VLC: Video is not integrated into the interface

When playing videos in VLC the video is displayed in an own window instead of being integrated into the interface. This feature was apparently disabled because it caused VLC to crash on some systems. You can either use version 0.9.3 or wait until 1.0 is released and in the Jaunty repositories. (Threads in the VideoLAN Forums: [1] [2])

This is possible thanks to qssl, a last.fm user, who offered to use some of his webspace for the badges.

There is probably one disadvantage. The images will load a little slower than they used to. At the moment it also seems as if the badges don’t show up all the time. I will see what I can do about those problems.

Configuration

After you have installed the script you don’t need to configure anything, but you can change the appearance of the reply tracker. Just click “Settings” next to “Reply Tracker” and several options appear.

After you have installed the script you will see three textfields in the right column. Fill in your username, the highest number of rows that should be displayed and the seconds the reply tracker waits before reloading.

Spam a thread

If you want to remove a thread from the reply tracker at all you can “spam” a thread. Simply hover over an entry, click on the little button which appears and the thread will be gone.
If you want a thread to be displayed again just click “Settings” and set “Show spammed threads” to yes. After you have clicked “Save Options” all threads you spammed will be displayed and you can unspam a thread by clicking on the little green button which appears when you hover a thread.

Install the userscript

Also read Update for lastfm.freedig.org.

I have my website(s) stored on a shared server with 1GB space. At the moment the badges use about 600MB of this space. As I also have other stuff saved on this server I had to limit the number of badge-registrations to 6250 6000 30000.
If the page says “This service is currently disabled. Please check back later.” that means that currently there are more than 6250 6000 30000 badges.
Badges that haven’t been used for 2 months are deleted every hour. Once the number of badges drops below 6250 6000 30000 you will be able to create new badges.

The first one is Harmoy (1.0). It has been a nominee for the Extend Firefox 3 contest and not only supports pandora.com but virtually every player that is supported by FoxyTunes. In addition it provides information about currently playing songs.

The other one is LastFM Firefox Extension. This extension focuses on song submission from your Pandora radio. Optional messages notify you when Pandora plays a new song and when it is submitted to Last.fm.

This userscript changes the appearance of a last.fm profile page. It replaces the player on the right with the user information in the middle. At least for me this seems to be a better use of space since I don’t use the player anyway.

Before

After

Install the userscript

• Some new options
• New look
• Instant apply possible

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Install

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• Toolbar button to access the advanced preferences.
• Fixes bug with the menu item on MacOS.

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• You can reset each option to its default value.
• Now only options that affect your Firefox version are shown.
• The menu item sticks to the “Options” item (according to the position in different OS).
• Removed options that can be changed in the standard Option Dialog.
• Added language support for Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Polish and Portuguese (Brazilian).

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