{"id":1013,"date":"2012-08-26T19:11:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2012-08-29T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:22:25","slug":"pinto-post-installation-check-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Pinto Post-Installation Check Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Ubuntu 12.04.1 is installed, there are a few things to check out:<\/p>\n

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Grub boots into the old operating system and it still works.<\/dt>\n
I had to change the default in menu.lst, but that was expected.<\/dd>\n
Windows installation still works<\/dt>\n
I have NTFS on \/dev\/sda1, but it’s not in the Grub configuration, nor the last configuration from March 2012. \u00c2\u00a0It was in a copy from January 2, 2012, so I put it back. \u00c2\u00a0It still works, but, dang, is it slow! \u00c2\u00a0No wonder I didn’t miss it.<\/dd>\n
Suspend<\/dt>\n
Works (see Fingerprint reader).<\/dd>\n
Hibernate<\/dt>\n
See separate post about hibernation.<\/dd>\n
Shutting the lid suspends the laptop<\/dt>\n
Works.<\/dd>\n
Fingerprint reader<\/dt>\n
Partially worked. I’ll post an investigation separately.<\/dd>\n
Wireless networking<\/dt>\n
No issues.<\/dd>\n
Dropbox<\/dt>\n
It seems fine, except the icon on the status bar is all white, like it’s an inverse shadow.<\/dd>\n
Ctrl-Alt-Delete brings up log off dialog<\/a><\/dt>\n
Ctrl-Alt-Delete doesn’t do anything. Fixing this required changing my keyboard shortcuts in the keyboard app.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Some other notes:<\/p>\n

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  • The system was pretty sluggish and the hard drive was active. Running top showed tracker processes running. These are search indexers. I turned them off with Search and Indexing Preferences. I turned off everything on the Indexing tab. A restart was required. The system is quicker now, but swaps to disk more often. I checked memory usage between 12.04 and 10.04 and there was a significant difference:
    \nIn graphical mode, logged in via tty: 10.04=276MB 12.04=307MB
    \nIn graphical mode, logged in to X: 10.04=667MB 12.04=787MB
    \nTo try to deal with swapping, I installed zram-config. This seems to have helped.<\/li>\n
  • Emacs was missing–I installed it with the Ubuntu Software Center along with an add-on to keep the Emacs cut buffer in sync with the system clipboard.<\/li>\n
  • Shutting down no longer has that minutes-long delay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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