Ever since i've decided to quit using Windows, and start using Ubuntu i've been running into numerous problems that are in fact quite annoying. I truly need someone to help me to fix them, because I have no clue.

First: ATi drivers. NO matter what I do, they will simply not work. I've followed every single guide posted on this forum/ubuntuforums.org, and glxgears will still not report above 300 FPS. This is my main problem, as I really need to get these drivers to work.

Second problem: every single time I boot into Ubuntu, I have to reconfigure my wireless internet. How do I solve this? Its really annoying me off. By reconfiguring I mean running through the steps: sudo iwconfig eth1 ap/essid/key xxx / sudo dhclient eth1. Is there a way to automate this process?

Third problem: Whenever I try to play any movie that is in .cue/.bin forum, mplayer/VLC will not produce any sound whatsoever. This is a problem for me, because all of my backups of my DVD's are in image format.

I'am running this on an ASUS M6NBe, and would truly like to fix these problems. If I cant I think i'll just go back to Windows, something I really dont want to do.

Thanks.

I would usually help- but because of the language, I will only give you hints. Please tone down the language in the future, this board caters to many people- please keep your language to "family safe"

ati drivers- it is the manufacturures fault- especially if it is a new card - there are no drivers for linux.
automatically- look up cron
search the forum for the mplayer stuff,

titanium_geek

I'am sorry. I edited the above post, removing all of the offensive language. If it offended you i'am sorry.

I was just really annoyed at the problems I keep having. I've tried to fix them, I just dont know how, or I cant find the right thing. If you can help me, that would be greatly appreciated.

Btw, the vid card is a mobility 9700 pro.

I love Ubuntu. It's currently rivalling Mepis as my distro of choice.

I have to say, though, if a distro won't recognize your hardware no matter what you do, try another distro.

The distro recongizes everything. It all works fine, however, I just have these problems that I need to fix, before i'am prefeclty happy with it.

What I would suggest doing is creating a script with that command to fix your wireless. When you have it, Go to System>Preferences>Sessions. Then click the startup programs tab, and tell it to run that script every time.

And I create this script how?

It would basically consist of creating an empty file starting with

#!/bin/bash
execute this action
execute the next action

where the executes are the steps you listed above.
Then save this as whatever, chmod +x whatever, then place whatever in your startup programs. There are one of 2 ways of automating this even further, though they are both consirdered to be a really insecure way of doing things.

First -

allow sudo with no password

Second -

modify the appropriate commands with s(uper user) bit.

This will make all this transparent when loggin in, but as I have stated, is a much less secure way of doing things. Of course you can always use a graphical sudo program like gksudo in the script, which will merely ask for your password again right after you log in. Hope this helps a wee bit.

Oh, and sound issue - please look here if you have not already -

http://ubuntuguide.org/#configuresoundproperly

ATI - as stated above, ATI is mostly to blame for this but all I can do is suggest a couple places to look-

www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/BinaryDriverHowto

Otherwise, I am truly sorry about your situation.

I love you. You got my sound working.

As for my vid card, it says that the drivers are already installed :S

When will ATi support Linux?

ATi Sucks dude, buy Nvidia, they have SUPER SUPER great linux drivers!

Nvidia + Linux = Love!

lol

This is my last possible suggestion, this is from another forum, sorry guys, but you gotta dig down where ever you can when dealing with ATI.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=32495