Dual boot with Ubuntu

Well, I did it - I finally set up Ubuntu as a viable dual-boot desktop system. I wanted to document some of what I did to make the thing work.

Dual boot setup
I have two hard drives, XP on one, and installed Ubuntu on the other. Note: During the Grub config step (near the end of the preinstall), I specified *not* to install to the MBR but to install on the boot drive for the linux install. Then, using Bootpart in XP I generated the boot.ini entry that allows me to boot to Linux from the Windows boot manager.

At this point, I can hibernate, but can't suspend.

Video
I have an NVidia card, so I used the Restricted Drivers Manager to install the nv driver.

Sound
I have two soundcards - onboard Realtek and an add-in Audigy. My goal is to have a media player use the Audigy, and have the line out connected to a stereo. I selected AmaroK because it's the only app I've found that has rich playlist capability and also allows specifying which output device to use. Note: I had to install libxine1-plugins to enable MP3 playback.

Unfortunately, the Audigy seems to be recognized, but does not seem to be generating any output. Tools used:
  • kmix - GUI mixer analog for alsaconfig
  • aplay - "aplay -l" lists all cards; "aplay -L" lists the names of the cards; "aplay -D hw:3,0 [file]" plays to the Audigy
Zoo Tycoon
I installed Wine, copied mfc42.dll from the XP system32 folder, and installed a CD crack, and voila - "wine zt.exe" runs Zoo Tycoon in all its glory. Who knew??

VMWare Server
I needed to remove spaces from the VM names -- oops that's not it...

Flash
sudo apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree

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