Craig Mayhew’s Blog

Thought I’d share some quick fixes to get Ubuntu 8.04 working on an Asus P5Q Premium motherboard.  These will probably also help with similar problems in Ubuntu 7.04 and Ubuntu 7.10 when using SATA drives.

The problems I had were centred around using a 64GB OCZ Solid State SATA drive. The installer would hang most of the time and when it did finally make it to the disk partitioning stage it couldn’t see the hard disk.

Enter into the motherboard BIOS and change the following options:

• Under Main / Storage Configuration change “Configure SATA as …” to AHCI. This will fix linux not being able to see the SATA drive.

Hope that saves you some time and trouble!

To automatically start synergy at the login screen:

Run “sudo vim /etc/gdm/Init/Default” in the command window. This will run the vim text editor to edit the startup script of gdm.

Add the following chunk of text at the beginning of the file. Replace CLIENTNAME AND SERVERIP with your relevant synergy client name and synergy server ip. This loads synergy when kdm is loaded.

# ADDED FOR SYNERGY
/usr/bin/killall synergyc
sleep 1
/usr/bin/synergyc ––daemon ––name CLIENTNAME SERVERIP
# END SYNERGY

To get synergy to start once you have logged in:

In the menu simply goto System Menu->Preferences->Sessions, click the Startup Programs tab, click “Add” then just enter the Startup Command:

synergyc ––daemon ––name CLIENTNAME SERVERIP