How to Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 under VMware Fusion

Reference:
http://peterc.org/2008/62-how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-hardy-804-under-vmware-fusion.html

http://x86virtualization.com/open-source/howto-install-open-vmware-tools-in-linux-kernel-2624.html


sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` libx11-dev

Install VMware Tools make scroll mouse not workable, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to add following under:


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
....
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"


skype audio failure in Ubuntu 8.04

I found following work around and it's working!

In the input section of "Multimedia Systems Selector" try switching your input to ALSA and then going into volume control and turning it all the way up. You may have to kill pulseaudio for this to work:

Code:

pulseaudio -k

play quicktime and real media files on Ubuntu

Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc).

Some of these packages include the libdvdcss package from VideoLAN and the external binary codecs package (commonly known as w32codecs) used by MPlayer and xine.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Ubuntu 8.04

had a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04 desktop today on my nx8220 laptop. everything went smooth but still have problem with dual display. If I us generic video driver, then I was able to give different resolution setting to my laptop and external monitor but the problem is it show both of the display are overlapping each other, i was not able to make the external monitor as an extension to the laptop display.

Then I enable the ATI driver, things get even worst, startup no display (can be solved), then the external display is only allow to work in clone mode and the resolution is limited to my laptop resolution which is 1280x800.

No choice, I was lazy to debug and just revert to the generic driver, at least i can set the external monitor to 1280x1024.