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5069 | 1 | 5072 | 2010-10-02T14:40:27.343 | 12 | 18711 | <p>I remember that I was able to run a Linux .exe that was placed on an NTFS partition earlier before I installed 10.10 RC. But if I try to run it now, I can't run it as it hasn't the execution permission. The bad part is that I can't change the permissions too. I'm <code>chmod</code>-ding <code>+x</code> but no change at all with its permissions.</p>
<p>So this seems to be a bug? Any help? </p>
<p>Though when I put it on ext4 partition, I can set the permission. But I want to do this as I did before, right from its default NTFS location.</p>
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5071 | 1 | null | 2010-10-02T15:20:30.647 | 2 | 696 | <p>I am having both gnome and kde on my system. My Gnome desktop is working perfectly but in KDE here is no sound being generated.</p>
<p>output of apley -l and lspci commands is as follows..</p>
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
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02:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
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09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
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<p>What could be the problem?</p>
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5075 | 1 | null | 2010-10-02T17:13:25.467 | 7 | 2787 | <p>We have set up a Ubuntu workstation with accounts for all the group members.</p>
<p>Nxserver from nomachine seems to be what we need, but it is restricted to two users. FreeNx isn't easily installable and doesn't seem very reliable.
VNC seems to be usable for log in to an existing open session, but not for remote logins on a single workstation.</p>
<p>To be clear, we need a solution to log in on a workstation. Desktop maintenance isn't necessary at all.</p>
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5077 | 1 | 5128 | 2010-10-02T17:43:38.587 | 1 | 2300 | <p>I have a Zebra TLP thermal printer (LPT-attached) and a proprietary business web application using an ActiveX element to print on it. Is there a way to make it work on Linux?</p>
<p>If there was, then I could probably extinguish Windows in my company!</p>
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5078 | 1 | 10591 | 2010-10-02T18:27:00.100 | 3 | 790 | <p>Most applications, including the gnomevfs headers themselves, expect the files to be under <code>/usr/include/libgnomevfs</code>, <strong>but</strong> Ubuntu has them under <code>/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0/libgnomevfs</code>.</p>
<p>Why? The package I'm referring to is called <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libgnomevfs2-dev" rel="nofollow">libgnomevfs2</a>.</p>
<p>Inside /usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs.h` we find:</p>
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#include <libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-async-ops.h>
#include <libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-cancellation.h>
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<p>Meaning that even the headers themselves expect the files to be in that location - and nothing that includes this file will work.</p>
<p>Am I missing something, or is this a glitch?</p>
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5080 | 1 | 5081 | 2010-10-02T20:54:49.857 | 10 | 4957 | <p>I recently upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 and I noticed that I'm no longer able to add a volume control to my desktop panels. When I right click the panel and choose "Add to panel" there is no longer a volume control in the list.</p>
<p>How do I add a volume control to my desktop panel?</p>
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5086 | 1 | 5088 | 2010-10-02T22:03:53.960 | 2 | 185 | <p>I installed the proprietary ATI/AMD FGLRX graphics driver through "jockey-gtk" to get rid of my computer's over heating problems. While my computer no longer overheats, I am stuck with a new problem:</p>
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<p>Any suggestion on how to approach this problem? 1 second might not seem so bad but for a power user it is :)</p>
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5087 | 1 | null | 2010-10-02T22:48:27.687 | 2 | 1410 | <p>In XFCE it was very convenient to pop-up applications launcher menu and running applications list menu anywhere on desktop by right and middle click respectively. Can be Gnome configured to behave so?</p>
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5090 | 1 | null | 2010-10-02T23:38:46.247 | 5 | 518 | <p>I use 2 displays - laptop's built-in 1024x768 panel and external attached 1600x1200 CRT. In XFCE I could set different backdrops to these 2. Can I in Gnome?</p>
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5092 | 1 | null | 2010-10-02T23:49:43.930 | 6 | 2383 | <p>I've used "Mouse Preferences" window to set mouse pointer acceleration and sensitivity sliders to their maximums, but I am still not satisfied with how fast does mouse pointer move (I've got a very big display). Can I accelerate it over?</p>
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5094 | 1 | 5096 | 2010-10-03T00:17:28.820 | 4 | 2657 | <p>When I open Downloads, Pictures, Music, or Documents folders, I can see a thick beige Ubuntu One bar on top of the folder's workplace. This annoys me and, I have reasons to suppose, introduces some malfunctions. How to disable it?</p>
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5095 | 1 | null | 2010-10-03T00:59:33.843 | 12 | 4975 | <p>I'm a Ubuntu 10.04 user who is looking for a way to, for example, make my computer type a <code>+</code> character when I hold down the <kbd>Windows</kbd> Key (I think it's called <kbd>Super</kbd> in Linux world) and press the <kbd>K</kbd> key. I need this to work in all applications. (I'm a person with a typing disability, and I need to adapt Ubuntu to my needs.) Thanks!</p>
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5104 | 1 | 5106 | 2010-10-03T04:35:44.897 | 13 | 384 | <p>How could I make NotifyOSD send all updates to a text file (As well as do what it does)?</p>
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5108 | 1 | 11422 | 2010-10-03T07:38:35.220 | 2 | 321 | <p>My xsession when logged in with other user than myself doesnot show the default two panels. All I get is the desktop with wallpaper. Anyone got any idea what is wrong ? I am using xubuntu 10.04. It doesnot happen while I setup a user and login with his/her name but after some times of logins.</p>
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5111 | 1 | null | 2010-10-03T08:36:28.853 | 1 | 1639 | <p>In order to facilitiate some performance testing I am attempting to throttle the ip traffic on a particular machine - I want limit it to 1Mbit/sec.</p>
<p>I have a separate test machine where this command works just fine:</p>
<p>tc qdisc add dev eth0 root tbf rate 1mbit burst 5kb latency 70ms peakrate 1.001mbit minburst 1540</p>
<p>On the real box where I want to apply this, I get weirdness. The exact same command limits traffic to 6Kbit/sec. Any ideas why?</p>
<p>unanme -a shows</p>
<p><code>Linux IPERF1 2.6.18-128.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 12:02:33 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux</code></p>
<p>We have a three different ways of monitoring the throughput: The actual application we are testing which reports the throughput we see. We also some Tivoli monitoring on a switch and we have an HTTP client which downloads a file from an HTTP server on the box in question. All three methods show 6Kbs when the TBF is applied, and many Mbs when we remove the TBF.</p>
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5112 | 1 | null | 2010-10-03T08:50:36.603 | 51 | 52553 | <p>Is there some easy to use program in Ubuntu that can scan many pages straight into a PDF file?</p>
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5116 | 1 | 5129 | 2010-10-03T11:04:09.540 | 3 | 3960 | <p>When I boot grub doesnt show up (only ubuntu installed) I would like grub to be shown for a second or 2 (shift doesnt seem to bring it up). My main problem is that grub boots into what i assume to be recovery mode, I can login as myself and startx but that is obviously a right pain. Could someone please advise me on how to remedy this problem?</p>
<p>Grub.cfg:</p>
<pre><code>#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="1"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}
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set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1cd98d8a-97b3-4f25-9da2-e7128ef6dcba
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
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insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
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set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
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if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
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else
set timeout=10
fi
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### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
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recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1cd98d8a-97b3-4f25-9da2-e7128ef6dcba
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic root=UUID=1cd98d8a-97b3-4f25-9da2-e7128ef6dcba ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic
}
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}
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### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
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insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1cd98d8a-97b3-4f25-9da2-e7128ef6dcba
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
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menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1cd98d8a-97b3-4f25-9da2-e7128ef6dcba
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
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### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
if [ ${timeout} != -1 ]; then
if keystatus; then
if keystatus --shift; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=0
fi
else
if sleep --interruptible 3 ; then
set timeout=0
fi
fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
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5121 | 1 | 5126 | 2010-10-03T14:37:34.237 | 485 | 66816 | <p>I found a problem with an application on Ubuntu. </p>
<p>Questions :</p>
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<li>What sort of information should I provide? </li>
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5130 | 1 | null | 2010-10-03T17:08:18.027 | 6 | 3280 | <p>I've got an external terabyte drive to store my scrap (actually I mean a partition on it, I've got some other partitions there). The FS used is ext3. Even after I delete some files there (so there are at least some hundreds mibs free), Nautilus shows zero free space there and does not allow to even create a directory. How to fix this?</p>
<p>I use Ubuntu 10.10 daily build, last updated ton the day before yesterday (Oct 03, 2010).</p>
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5133 | 1 | 5135 | 2010-10-03T19:03:23.700 | 9 | 18474 | <p>I just upgraded to the 10.10 RC earlier and had a few problems with graphic drivers (x didnt start) But i have remedied that now.
When i run 'sudo apt-get install -f' i get this:</p>
<pre><code>will@UbuntuBox:/mnt/slax$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for will:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libmono-wcf3.0-cil openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmono-wcf3.0-cil
The following packages will be upgraded:
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
16 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/32.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,929kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 201565 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace openoffice.org-calc 1:3.2.1-6ubuntu2~10.04.1 (using .../openoffice.org-calc_1%3a3.2.1-7ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement openoffice.org-calc ...
xz: (stdin): Compressed data is corrupt
dpkg-deb: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 1
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-calc_1%3a3.2.1-7ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/libscfiltli.so'
dpkg: regarding .../openoffice.org-core_1%3a3.2.1-7ubuntu1_i386.deb containing openoffice.org-core:
openoffice.org-core conflicts with openoffice.org-calc (<< 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1)
openoffice.org-calc (version 1:3.2.1-6ubuntu2~10.04.1) is present and installed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-core_1%3a3.2.1-7ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
conflicting packages - not installing openoffice.org-core
Unpacking libmono-wcf3.0-cil (from .../libmono-wcf3.0-cil_2.6.7-3ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal gzip read error: '<fd:0>: data error'
dpkg-deb: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmono-wcf3.0-cil_2.6.7-3ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
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Errors were encountered while processing:
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<p>Any idea how i can get the broken packages fixed?
Cheers,
Will</p>
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5134 | 1 | null | 2010-10-03T19:10:30.343 | 5 | 1974 | <p>I decided to try out the Ubuntu 10.10 RC on my workstation today. The install worked fine, but the mouse and keyboard (both of which is usb) are unbearably laggy. This was also the case when I ran it from the live cd.</p>
<p>The strange part is that it works fine for the first few seconds when entering X. Then something happens in the background, and the mouse all of a sudden behaves like I'm playing some demanding 3d game on the highest setting. The keyboard is also laggy, and if I press more than a single key per second the key will be dropped, and only about every fifth character will actually appear on screen. Even stranger is that this lag also is present when a use ctrl+alt+f1 to switch to console mode.</p>
<p>If I immediately switch to console mode when booting, it works fine. Then when I switch back to X, it takes a couple of seconds and then it happens again.</p>
<p>I've checked the logs, and the most suspicious message is:</p>
<pre><code>Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868940] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868946] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868948] Call Trace:
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868950] <IRQ> [<ffffffff810cba5b>] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0xa0
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868961] [<ffffffff810cbc5c>] note_interrupt+0x18c/0x1d0
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868967] [<ffffffff81085d10>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x60/0x90
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868970] [<ffffffff810cc45d>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xdd/0x110
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868974] [<ffffffff8100cb12>] handle_irq+0x22/0x30
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868978] [<ffffffff81590b2c>] do_IRQ+0x6c/0xf0
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868981] [<ffffffff81589713>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868983] <EOI> [<ffffffff810360fb>] ? native_safe_halt+0xb/0x10
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868990] [<ffffffff81012ecd>] default_idle+0x3d/0x90
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868995] [<ffffffff81008da3>] cpu_idle+0xb3/0x110
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.868999] [<ffffffff8156f6fa>] rest_init+0x8a/0x90
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.869004] [<ffffffff81aedc9d>] start_kernel+0x387/0x390
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.869007] [<ffffffff81aed341>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x12c/0x130
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.869011] [<ffffffff81aed43f>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.869013] handlers:
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.869014] [<ffffffff81404bb0>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x90)
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.869019] [<ffffffff81404bb0>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x90)
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.869022] [<ffffffff81404bb0>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x90)
Oct 3 20:16:16 CHURCHILL kernel: [ 70.869026] Disabling IRQ #19
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<p>IRQ related issues, is from what I can tell, rather common. However, most of them seems to be related to shared interrupts, but on my computer IRQ 19 is used exclusively by the USB controller:</p>
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CPU0
0: 26 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042
7: 1 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi, firewire_ohci
12: 4 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp
15: 1004 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp
17: 154 IO-APIC-fasteoi ATI IXP
18: 6164 IO-APIC-fasteoi radeon, hda_intel
19: 2000002 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ohci_hcd:usb3
20: 9097 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0, eth1
22: 13702 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_sil
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 105505 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 0 Performance monitoring interrupts
PND: 0 Performance pending work
RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 0 Function call interrupts
TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 4 Machine check polls
ERR: 1
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<p>The on other person I've been able to found that had similar problems resorted to using irqpoll, as suggested by the kernel message. However, he reported that the inputs didn't work at all without that option, which makes me suggest that this might not really be IRQ related after all. Especially since it works fine for a while.</p>
<p><code>lspci</code> lists the USB controller as <code>ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller</code>.</p>
<p>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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<p>But the thing I worry about is how to set it up correctly and not to harm Ubuntu's "Monitor Preferences" application, panel indicator applet or anything else.</p>
<p>If you have had any experience with Xinerama, would you be so kind to share?</p>
<p>I use Ubuntu 10.10 on my Toshiba L10 laptop with Intel 82852/855GM onboard card. And I switch (which, AFAIK, can be an inconvenience with Cinerama) monitor configurations (detach all monitors but a laptop's built-in panel, attach monitors with different resolutions) pretty often (sometimes many times a day).</p>
<p>As Ubuntu was unable to detect my graphics, I was to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4662/where-is-x-org-config-file-in-ubuntu-10-10-how-to-configure-x-there/4663#4663">create Xorg.conf</a> already, which has solved most of my graphics problems.</p>
<p>The last time I have had experience with writing Xorg.conf manually and setting up Xinerama was about 7 years ago, with Slackware and Matrox MGA G550 card. And I definitely <i>wouldn't like to edit Xorg.conf every time I need to switch my monitors configuration</i>.</p>
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5140 | 1 | 5243 | 2010-10-03T21:06:31.470 | 13 | 4118 | <p>Having NumLock on is convenient when using a full-sized external keyboard (having a keypad) and very inconvenient when using laptop's built-in keyboard (which places digits instead of letters on the keyboard's right sid unless Fn is pressed).</p>
<p>So I have to turn NumLock on every time I attach an external keyboard (or boot with it attached) and off every time I detach an external keyboard (or boot with it detached). And I do this frequently because I prefer using a full-sized external keyboard, but have not enough (only 3) USB ports to plug-in it alongside with a mouse, a 3G modem and an external hard/flash drive.</p>
<p>Can I automate this? Seems a very formaliseable, logically simple task: if there is an USB keyboard attached (some device in /dev present?) - NumLock is on, if not - NumLock is off. My laptop's built-in keyboard is PS/2-attached, external is USB.</p>
<p>Maybe I should code it myself, but where to put it in this case?</p>
<p>I use Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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5141 | 1 | 7337 | 2010-10-03T21:37:14.887 | 4 | 945 | <p>There are various system-wide debug tools (sysprof, oprofile, systemtap) that need debug symbols. Getting debug symbols for userspace applications is easy: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash</a></p>
<p>The ddebs repository also contains <code>linux-image-$(uname -r)-dbgsym</code> packages, but even if I install it, sysprof continues to show me unhelpful "in kernel" without detailed information. Where can I get debug symbols that sysprof can use?</p>
<p>The systemtap package has a Suggests: linux-debug-2.6. Apt-cache search fails to find anything called linux-debug-2.6. Is it available somewhere? Or is this an unproductive dead-end?</p>
<p>Incidentally, oprofile can use the debug symbols from the above-mentioned dbgsym package, but not out of the box -- it wants
<code>/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/vmlinux</code>, and I have to tell it to use use <code>/usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-$(uname -r)-generic</code>. But oprofile lacks a nice GUI, so I'd prefer sysprof.</p>
<p>So, how can I convince sysprof to show me what's happening in the kernel?</p>
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5145 | 1 | null | 2010-10-04T01:29:58.453 | 1 | 1813 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/906/ubuntu-and-vlc-make-default-and-hue">ubuntu and vlc — make default and hue</a> </p>
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<p>When I capture HD video with a Pentax DSLR, and view it using VLC, it looks wrong - the green grass is purple, and the golden retriever is blue.</p>
<p>This happens with VLC, Totem, etc. There's nothing wrong with the files themselves - the exact same files play fine on the mac or the PC.</p>
<p>Is there a way to fix this? </p>
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5148 | 1 | null | 2010-10-04T03:05:20.073 | 1 | 883 | <p>Why does trash show some files even when there is nothing inside the trash?</p>
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5149 | 1 | null | 2010-10-04T04:17:45.643 | 25 | 49571 | <p>Some times I have to deal with XPS files (XPS is a Microsoft's rival to Adobe's PDF format, technically a zipped XAML (XML)). </p>
<p>Can I view them in Ubuntu? Or, maybe, I could even produce them?</p>
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5151 | 1 | null | 2010-10-04T04:46:26.437 | 8 | 8612 | <p>I think it'd be nice if Nautilus windows could have semi-transparent backgrounds (same as Gnome terminal can) for files and places lists. Is it possible?</p>
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5153 | 1 | 20243 | 2010-10-04T05:54:33.553 | 3 | 739 | <p>I'm currently using the 10.10 beta of Ubuntu with the most recent updates installed. When I boot up the computer, gwibber fails to start up and when I do open it, it shows an icon in the notification area (which I do not want) and it doesn't use the indicator applet at all (even when closed).<br></p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SBWFV.png" alt="notification bar"> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sfJMD.png" alt="menu"></p>
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5155 | 1 | 5513 | 2010-10-04T07:15:01.483 | 2 | 729 | <p>When i update apt-get the universe repo takes ages to download, I usually max out at around 130kbps which can easily download ~4mb in under a minute yet it skips between going an bytes per second and under 30kpbs (and i'm not running anything that leaches my bandwidth when i update). Updating on lucid was fine and took under 10 seconds why does it now take about 10 minutes...</p>
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Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
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Ign http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
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Hit http://archive.canonical.com maverick Release
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Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
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Ign http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse Translation-en
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Ign http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Translation-en
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Hit http://im.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release.gpg
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Ign http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
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Ign http://im.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
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Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/universe i386 Packages
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Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages [6,396B]
Hit http://im.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release
Hit http://im.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-proposed Release
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Get:9 http://im.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/universe Sources [4,186kB]
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<p>If anyone can help i would be massively appreciative of that
Will</p>
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5157 | 1 | null | 2010-10-04T08:12:36.303 | 3 | 585 | <p>I installed "indicator-applet-appmenu" and tried the same for "global menu". It does not work for the most of applications and does not seem convenient with my monitors configuration. </p>
<p>The problem is, that now (despite I have no "appmenu applet" active), some applications, for example <strong>UEx</strong> (UltraEdit for Linux) don't show their menus in their windows, so I need to activate global menu applet to use them. </p>
<p>How can I fix this? I am afraid (because I am on a 3G connection with limited traffic) that if I just remove indicator-applet-appmenu package, the problem won't solve and I will loose the last way to access menus in those programs.</p>
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5161 | 1 | 5165 | 2010-10-04T08:40:50.837 | 2 | 4631 | <p>How to disable windows' contents being moved on dragging, so that only the frame is dragged and the whole window is only redrawn on drop?</p>
<p>In Windows, KDE and XFCE this can be easily configured, but in Gnome (Ubuntu 10.10) I couldn't find where to set this up :-(</p>
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5169 | 1 | null | 2010-10-04T12:33:03.127 | 1 | 1732 | <p>I am using XUbuntu 10.04, and I am having issues with the sound. First things just sounded strange, then I figured out that I am actually getting the surround left and surround right sound in my headset. If I change the balance in aumix to either far left or far right, things sound better. I still get sound in both headphones, but only the left or right channel.</p>
<p>If I do <a href="https://docs.ubuntu.com/core/en/stacks/audio/alsa-utils/docs/reference/available-utilities" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>speaker-test -c6</code></a> (man page), it becomes clear that I am missing the center channel.</p>
<p>In <code>/etc/pulse/daemon.conf</code> I have set default-sample-channels = 2</p>
<p>Is there a way for pulseaudio to downmix from surround to stereo for the ouptut?</p>
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5170 | 1 | null | 2010-10-04T13:25:40.240 | 2 | 2191 | <p>I'd like to build an (optimized) Version of Chromium for my machine with apt-build on Ubuntu 10.04. I've added a Chromium-PPA to my /etc/sources.list.d/ like this:</p>
<pre><code>deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/stable/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/stable/ubuntulucid main
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<p>But if I run</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-build install chromium browser
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<p>It tells me</p>
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<p>chromium-browser will not be built because it doesn't have a source package.
Missing source package name for source_by_source().</p>
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<p>On the other hand
sudo apt-get source chromium-browser</p>
<p>seems to work fine, even downloads the 6.x from the PPA</p>
<p>What am I doing wrong? Building ffmpeg and firefox via apt-build worked like a breeze. Except that my preferred chromium is from a PPA I don't see a difference.</p>
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5172 | 1 | 5174 | 2010-10-04T13:58:47.907 | 241 | 350187 | <p>From what I can gather, <code>.desktop</code> files are shortcuts that allow application's settings to be customized. For instance, I have lots of them in my <code>/usr/share/applications/</code> folder. </p>
<p>If I open that folder in <code>nautilus</code>, I can run these applications just by double clicking its associated file, e.g. double-clicking <code>firefox.desktop</code> runs Firefox. However, I can't find a way to do the same thing via terminal. </p>
<p>If I do <code>gnome-open foo.desktop</code> it simply opens <code>foo.desktop</code> as a text file. If I make it executable and then run it in bash it simply fails (which is expected, it's clearly not bash script).<br>
EDIT: Doing <code>exec /fullpath/foo.desktop</code> gives me a <code>Permission denied</code> message, even if I change ownership to myself. If I make executable and do the same command, the terminal tab I'm using simply closes (I'm guessing it crashes). Finally, if I do <code>sudo exec /fullpath/foo.desktop</code>, I get an error reporting <code>sudo: exec: command not found</code>.</p>
<p>That's my question, how can I run a <code>foo.desktop</code> file from the terminal?</p>
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5178 | 1 | 5179 | 2010-10-04T15:35:50.490 | 2 | 1752 | <p>I've got the following error while attempting to upgrade from 8.04 to v 10.04. Is there anything I can do to resolve the issue?</p>
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5181 | 1 | null | 2010-10-04T16:53:03.223 | 5 | 3561 | <p>When I close the lid of my Asus X77JQ, lucid shuts it down automatically after five minutes. I want to be able to sleep in the same room as my laptop, so I would like to be able to close the lid without it shutting down. How can I do this?</p>
<p>The power options lid close option is set to do nothing.</p>
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5186 | 1 | null | 2010-10-04T19:26:46.330 | 1 | 573 | <p>I have a machine running Karmic which is embedded in a large screen. When I run <code>xrandr -q</code>, it reports that the VGA output is connected, even when there is no screen attached. This is causing some issues with other resolution-related software (that I can't change at the moment).</p>
<p>Is there a way to disable the VGA output so that it doesn't show up at all, or is there some fix I can backport so that it no longer reports incorrectly? Some info on the system is below. As far as I can tell it happens only on this hardware.</p>
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Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 8030
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5187 | 1 | 6140 | 2010-10-04T19:55:49.923 | 9 | 31348 | <p>I have encountered a very weird error on ubuntu-server (8.04), I have no idea why dhclient is not allowed to set the network settings! I'm not the one who installed the server in the first place, so i don't know much about the setup. The server is only used as a firewall/gateway (custom iptables script) it's got three nic's one for internet, one for LAN and one for DMZ. Now the ISP have changed settings from static ip to "static" ip assigned through dhcp, and i cant really use it.</p>
<p>Sadly I can't just set the IP statically since the ISP closes my connection when the dhcp lease ends :o</p>
<p>This is the error i get: (and then it just hangs there..)</p>
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Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
Listening on LPF/eth2/00:50:52:c1:a1:32
Sending on LPF/eth2/00:50:52:c1:a1:32
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPOFFER of 2.10.56.19 from 93.87.36.42
DHCPREQUEST of 2.10.56.19 on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 2.10.56.19 from 93.87.36.42
SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Permission denied
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
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<p>for now i've fixed it by running <code>killall dhclient; dhclient eth2</code> every hour and then setting static IP settings for the interface, this is enough to keep the connection live! but it's a pretty ugly hack in my opinion..</p>
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<p>that is, it verified that the rest of the locales are up-to-date; however, there was no mention of the <code>pl_PL.UTF-8</code> locale. I don't know if it erased files related to the locale.</p>
<p>How can I make sure that there are no files left in the system for the pl_PL.UTF-8 locale?</p>
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5192 | 1 | 5193 | 2010-10-04T21:56:51.410 | 23 | 1403 | <p>Whenever I am downloading packages using Ubuntu Software Center (or any package manager for that matter), my Internet connection slows to an absolute crawl. In fact, most requests timeout.</p>
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5196 | 1 | null | 2010-10-05T00:07:47.117 | 1 | 266 | <p>Could someone tell me how to replace system default localization font? I mean when it time to render my language I want to use specific font instead of the one Ubuntu choice for me.</p>
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5198 | 1 | 5202 | 2010-10-05T00:54:50.163 | 9 | 13136 | <p>I recently purchased one of the Kodak Playsport cameras which takes 720p video @ 60 frames per second.</p>
<p>The video quality is great but the files are rather large for uploading to Youtube (about 150 Megs per minute of video). The files are output as Quicktime MOV files.</p>
<p>My question is:</p>
<p>Is there a command-line tool that allows me to shrink the video down to a lower resolution/size for quicker uploading? I'm thinking something like ImageMagick's convert but for video.</p>
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5203 | 1 | 5210 | 2010-10-05T02:55:32.440 | 18 | 8719 | <p>What are the consequences of deleting any of these?</p>
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5209 | 1 | 5211 | 2010-10-05T05:48:14.927 | 7 | 10834 | <p>How do I change to icons in here?</p>
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5212 | 1 | null | 2010-10-05T09:09:23.413 | 2 | 2882 | <p>We are running an Ubuntu server which is a primary domain controller for several Windows XP clients using samba.</p>
<p>Some of our processes running on Windows generate huge amounts of xml files. Unfortunately we do not have any influence on how this data is stored (e.g. we cannot change the programs to (un)gzip the xml files when they are loaded/saved, they are provided by a 3rd party and we are required to use these programs by contract).</p>
<p>Since our hard disks are overflowing regularly I wonder whether there is such a thing like NTFS compression for Ubuntu/Linux for compressing these files transparently for the clients.</p>
<p>Some more background:</p>
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<li>Processing these files always means that they are read completely into memory, changed there and written back.</li>
<li>Only one client will access a directory of these files at a time so there are no concurrency and locking issues.</li>
<li>The server already has 4x 2TB data drives. There is no more physical space to add more (and I would like to avoid adding more disks)</li>
<li>The data must be kept active for about two years, after that it will be archived and deleted from the disks.</li>
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<p>I think the perfect solution would be some kind of plug in to the samba server that gets called whenever a file which matches a given wildcard / regex is created / written or read which uses gzip / ungzip to compress / uncompress the file on the fly.</p>
<p>Alternatively I could imagine a windows file system driver that does the same on the client side.</p>
<p>I would like to avoid any manual steps in this process because it is too error prone.</p>
<p>Is there something like this? I have already used Google but could not find any solution.</p>
<p>(I would have liked to create a compression tag for this but I am not allowed to do that yet.)</p>
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5215 | 1 | 5222 | 2010-10-05T11:01:49.510 | 1 | 980 | <p>Hey how do I force empathy to save my display pic? I have tried to set it (in different formats and sizes) over a dozen times, all I get is this little silver man.</p>
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5218 | 1 | null | 2010-10-05T13:03:10.890 | 6 | 1487 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4324/how-can-i-change-the-order-of-the-users-in-the-login-screen">How can I change the order of the users in the login screen?</a> </p>
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<p>Where is the users' login history stored that governs the order in which the users' names appear in the login window? Background: I want to manipulate the order of the names.</p>
<p>-- </p>
<p>[[This is the most counter-intuitive forum site I have dealt with yet.]]</p>
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5224 | 1 | 5225 | 2010-10-05T14:34:20.877 | 3 | 599 | <p>I accidentally screwed up the groups for my main user by doing <code>sudo usermod -G blah</code> instead of <code>sudo usermod -a -G blah</code>. On realising this, I immediately rebooted into single user mode and added the groups <code>adm dialout cdrom floppy fuse</code> to the user's account. Everything seemed to be more or less back to normal and I could <code>sudo</code> as usual on the command line. However, the authentication dialog box that shows up in the GUI has stopped working for nearly all programs. The dialog shows up as normal, but will not accept the password. <code>gksudo firefox</code> from the command-line seems to work, as does Synaptic, leading me to believe that I'm merely missing a group that the other Ubuntu configuration/admin apps check for. Any solutions would be much appreciated. </p>
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5227 | 1 | 5232 | 2010-10-05T16:12:08.960 | 2 | 5276 | <p>It seems that each time I go to open an HTML message in Evolution I have to goto View -> Load Images. Is there a way to change this so Images will be automatically downloaded each time I receive an HTML message?</p>
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5228 | 1 | null | 2010-10-05T16:27:26.983 | 3 | 4813 | <p>Several special keys, most importantly the 'eject' button, are not working on my keyboard. </p>
<p>The only way I can eject my DVD drive is by opening up a terminal and typing 'eject'. When I press the eject button on my keyboard it gives the following message in the logs so it is registering the button being pressed but it is not doing anything. Also it doesn't register this message in the logs everytime i press the eject button, only occasionally.</p>
<pre><code>-laptop kernel: [ 1335.617380] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xf8 on isa0060/serio0).
-laptop kernel: [ 1335.617384] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e078 <keycode>' to make it known.
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<p>Does anyone know how I should go about fixing my keyboard so that all my special keys like eject work?</p>
<p>I installed Keytouch and Keytouch editor but when it asks me to press the 'eject' button it still doesn't notice that I pressed it so I can not assign it to the XF86Eject function. Its a Packard Bell EasyNote TX86 and I'm running Lucid Lynx. Any ideas? </p>
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5229 | 1 | 5236 | 2010-10-05T16:48:02.960 | 7 | 2065 | <p>I'm using 2 workspaces right now, and I'd like to be able to cycle through them using a single shortcut. At the moment, I can do <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Right</kbd> to switch to workspace 2, and <kbd>Left</kbd> switches to 1, but I'd like a single key (or key combination) to switch to the workspace I'm not in right now. That way I would only need that shortcut, and not need two.</p>
<p>I'm running Ubuntu on an old machine, and that keeps me from enabling compiz at all. I tried writing a script using both <code>wmctrl</code> and <code>xdotool</code>, but neither work properly (no matter what I do, they both will only switch to workspace 1, and never to 2).</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
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"text": "Save it anywhere as a text file, and mark it as executable (`chmod +x filename`). Go to \"System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts\". In this menu, create a new shortcut, give it whichever name you like and point it to your saved file. For instance, if you save the file as \"script.sh\" in your home folder, what you have to write in the \"Command\" input field is: \"/home/yourusername/script.sh\".",
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5230 | 1 | 5233 | 2010-10-05T16:54:37.960 | 3 | 303 | <p>I'm trying to let members of the group <code>labmembers</code> adjust the CPU frequency scaling on a system using <code>cpufreq-selector</code>. However, by default, this is restricted to members of the <code>admin</code> group.</p>
<p>Per <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3/how-can-i-set-the-software-center-to-install-software-for-non-root-users">this question</a>, I've created the following file:</p>
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<p>However, it seems to have no effect. I can't find any command to reload PolicyKit's configuration, and rebooting doesn't do it either. I've also tried naming it <code>50-cpufreq.conf</code>, to no more effect. There's nothing I've found that would tell me whether a pkla file is well-formed or anything like that, either.</p>
<p>What am I missing?</p>
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5238 | 1 | null | 2010-10-05T22:02:34.647 | 1 | 480 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/131/which-computers-are-guaranteed-to-work-with-ubuntu">Which computers are guaranteed to work with Ubuntu?</a> </p>
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<p>I am thinking of purchasing a new laptop computer and will be installing Ubuntu Lucid Desktop (either 64-bit or 32-bit) on it. What models can you recommend?</p>
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5241 | 1 | 5246 | 2010-10-05T22:41:01.733 | 11 | 2516 | <p>I keep seeing references to a config option calld <code>Editable Menu Accelerators</code> or <code>Editable Menu Shortcut Keys</code>.<br>
This is exactly what I need, but all the directions I've read about how to find that feature lead me to a dead-end. </p>
<p>I am running with Ubuntu 10.4, and have checked its help file <code>Desktop User Guide</code>.<br>
In Section <code>8.2.1.4. Interface Preferences</code> it says: </p>
<pre><code>"...the Interface tabbed section in the Appearance preference tool
to customize the appearance of menus, menubars, and toolbars
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<p>This <code>Interface</code> tab does not exist in Ubuntu 10.4 (... okay, who moved it?! .. where is i?)<br>
Is this feature still available?<br>
I assume it does exist, and is now accessible some other way... but <strong>how?</strong> </p>
<p>PS: To clarify... I want to modify a menu-item accelerator for a specific app (not a system-wide hot-key)</p>
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5245 | 1 | 5248 | 2010-10-06T00:39:18.373 | 12 | 31051 | <p>In Ubuntu, formatting drives is a simple process: simply select it and tell Ubuntu what you want done with it.</p>
<p>My question is; is there any tool as easy as that for Kubuntu?</p>
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5250 | 1 | 5254 | 2010-10-06T02:36:15.920 | 4 | 3943 | <p>While booting, I am getting the error message <strong>internal error: the second sector of Stage 2 is unknown."</strong> This is under Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. After posting, the full text of the GRUB loading screen is:</p>
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<p>This is an existing install that has been working for a long time. I came home to find the computer powered but not responding with no input to the monitor. Upon rebooting, this error message was displayed.</p>
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5251 | 1 | 5764 | 2010-10-06T02:40:15.490 | 18 | 3372 | <p>I'd like to add some buttons (such as cut, copy, paste, new folder, open terminal in current folder) to Nautilus Toolbar. Can I?</p>
<p>And it'd be awesome if I could add custom buttons running commands I specify, and perfect if I could use macros (like current selected file full name substitution etc.) in those commands.</p>
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5252 | 1 | 5359 | 2010-10-06T03:30:45.433 | 3 | 580 | <p>In Nautilus, I sometimes want to change the <code>mode</code> of the <code>side-pane</code> (Tree, Places, etc). </p>
<p>This can be done via the a mouse click on the drop button at the top of the side-pane.<br>
...but there is no hot-key/accelerator-key to quickly display this drop-list. </p>
<p>I usually prefer the keyboard for basic navigation, and this lack of simple keyboard navigation is a pain in the proverbial. </p>
<p>If there were even a menu item to jump across to the side-pane, it wouldn't be such a pain (bad pun)... and I could just set the menu-item's accelerator key... but there isn't such a menu item!</p>
<p>Can I create a menu-item for this particlar chore?<br>
or, is there already a hot-key for this?<br>
(Jumping directly across to the side-pane would be enough. Dropping the list is ideal)</p>
<p>Ctrl+Tab does some sort of navigation, but it seems to stop at every control on its route, and this results in a varying number of whistle-stops, depending on the state of the rest of the window (eg. Extra pane, Expanded trees...) </p>
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5253 | 1 | null | 2010-10-06T09:44:53.907 | 1 | 1328 | <p>I have a DELL inspiron 1525 with was shipped with Ubuntu 8.04. It was working ok.</p>
<p>I've decided to move to Ubuntu 10.04 last week. The install process was ok. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, my web access became very unstable. I can see web pages in firefox but it is very slow and I have a lot of errors.</p>
<p>I've checked the network and firefox settings all seems ok.</p>
<p>Does anybody know this problem? How can I investigate further? </p>
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5256 | 1 | 5279 | 2010-10-06T15:05:07.433 | 4 | 5422 | <h2>Hardware</h2>
<p>I have the following hardware configuration:</p>
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<li>Onboard video card with one VGA output (Intel P4M800 - Via Unichrome)</li>
<li>VGA splitter: 1 input, 4 outputs. Up to 2048x1536 (according to spec)</li>
<li>One 42'' TV/Monitor connected to the splitter via its VGA input</li>
<li>Two 32'' TV/Monitor connected to the splitter via its VGA input</li>
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<p>With that configuration, Ubuntu only shows 640x480 and 800x800 as possible resolutions. However, if I connect any of the TV/Monitor directly to the PC (via VGA) then Ubuntu shows a long list of possible resolution (I tried several of them and they worked fine).</p>
<p>It seems that <strong>X Window System</strong> automatic configuration is not working properly. How do I manually configure it? What info should knows of the different devices involved beforehand?</p>
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<p><strong>Context:</strong> The monitors are intalled in public spaces across one building to display dynamic information that is processed in the PC (a Flash presentation running in Firefox in fullscreen mode).</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>:</p>
<p>I tried the following, as the link provided in the answers said:</p>
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<li><p>Get the modeline for the resolution using <code>cvt</code></p></li>
<li><p>Created the new mode using <code>xrandr --newmode</code></p></li>
<li><p>Added the mode to the output display using <code>xrandr --addmode</code></p></li>
<li><p>Tried to change the resolution using <code>xrandr --output ... --mode ...</code></p></li>
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<p>But I get this: <code>xrandr screen cannot be larger than 800x600 (desired size ...)</code></p>
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5257 | 1 | 5261 | 2010-10-06T15:12:05.433 | 22 | 791 | <p>Today, October 6th 2010, Ubuntu 10.10 is in <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureDefinitionFreeze">Feature Definition Freeze</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianImportFreeze">Debian Import Freeze</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze">Feature Freeze</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze">User Interface Freeze</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaFreeze">Beta Freeze</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationStringFreeze">Documentation String Freeze</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FinalFreeze">Final Freeze</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelFreeze">Kernel Freeze</a> and past the Translation Deadlines in both the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline">non-language pack</a> and <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LanguagePackTranslationDeadline">language pack</a> editions as the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule">release schedule</a> details.</p>
<p>Basically, except for last minute bugfixes, the version of Ubuntu 10.10 you can download <em>today</em> is identical to the version of Ubuntu 10.10 you can download on the 10th when it gets released.</p>
<p>If you downloaded and installed Ubuntu 10.10 <em>today</em>, you would:</p>
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<li>help defray the network load on October 10th</li>
<li>see Ubuntu 10.10 in action without waiting</li>
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<p>Those sound like pretty strong arguments... to me, and indeed I've been using Ubuntu 10.10 for a month now roughly. However, most people prefer to make the jump with everybody else on release day.</p>
<p>What are the rational reasons for that?</p>
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5265 | 1 | 5269 | 2010-10-06T16:54:32.703 | 7 | 1864 | <p>Some time ago I started experiencing strange issue when single clicks would intermittently act as double clicks.
Replacing the mouse doesn't help.
Ubuntu forum seems to have few threads related to this( <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1371815">this</a>, and <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1444878">this</a> and few more) with no definitive solution.</p>
<p>Hence my question - maybe someone here will be able to help me solve this mystery?</p>
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5270 | 1 | 5272 | 2010-10-06T17:15:59.120 | 3 | 1102 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/723/how-to-change-the-format-of-the-date-time-displayed-in-top-panel">How to change the format of the date & time displayed in top panel ?</a> </p>
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<p>I've been using computers for too long. The "human" display of the date/time in the panel looks a bit strange to me these days. </p>
<p>I am quite happy with the more functional and sortable digits-and-dots-and-dashes approach. Give me YYYY-MM-DD hh.nn.ss any day! (with leading zeroes) </p>
<p>I am a recent refugee from land of Windows, where one consolation was a nice tray clock <code>(TClockEx)</code>which had free-form layouts for both the tray-display and the copy-to-clipboard. </p>
<p>Although I like the general features of the standard-issue clock, I really do want a free-form digital clock (preferably with clipboard-out)... and my calendar week starts on Monday (not Sunday, as per the panel-clock) </p>
<p>I often need a sortable digital date/time prefix for file names. The clock is handy for this. </p>
<p>Can the standard Ubuntu clock do this? I couldn't find anything.<br>
... or is there another clock which can? </p>
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5273 | 1 | 5275 | 2010-10-06T18:47:49.063 | 15 | 25189 | <p>I'll trying to migrate away from Simply Accounting and need to somehow extract the contents of a Windows CAB file which is what Simply uses for backups.</p>
<p>What is the best way to open a CAB file on Ubuntu?</p>
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5282 | 1 | null | 2010-10-06T20:08:55.013 | 12 | 10738 | <p>Is it possible (and how) to use a computer headset (or speakers+mic) as a hands-free device for my mobile? I bought a bluetooth-dongle but I couldn't get it to work yet. I think I already set this up on an older version of Ubuntu on my laptop.</p>
<p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, the phone is an android 2.2 (but I think this doesn't matter) and the bluetooth device is a Integrated System Solution Corp. Bluetooth Device (according to lsusb).</p>
<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/H3yZi4KP">Output of lsusb -v</a></p>
<p>EDIT:
I found a project that seams to do just what I want: <a href="http://nohands.sourceforge.net/">http://nohands.sourceforge.net</a>.
I tried to install it on my laptop but it didn't work. I'll try it again on my computer at home and post a description as soon as it works (or any of you guys could post a solution if you're faster;)</p>
<p>Edit2: I was able to connect my phone, but somehow the audio doesn't work. I think the program has troubles with pulseaudio, as the soundtest fails. Any ideas?</p>
<p>Edit3: I'm still trying to get this to work. I might buy another bluetooth dongle. ATM I'm able to dial numbers in hfconsole - that's all. Somehow I'm shure there is a way to get this to work!</p>
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5283 | 1 | null | 2010-10-06T20:36:34.167 | 1 | 574 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/897/how-can-i-make-fonts-look-good-in-ubuntu">How can I make fonts look good in Ubuntu?</a> </p>
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<p>I noticed on every install of Ubuntu, the font is softer than on Windows. Is this a setting somewhere?</p>
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5284 | 1 | 842341 | 2010-10-06T20:41:45.170 | 6 | 18933 | <p>I've seen several links suggesting it is possible to make a call from the command-line with skype. The instructions suggest something along the lines of:</p>
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<p>However, this gets me an error message, "skype: unrecognized option '--callto:+14445551234".</p>
<p>Is this possible? </p>
<p><strong>Use case scenario:</strong></p>
<p>I want to call a particular number frequently.</p>
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<li>assuming skype client is already running and logged in.</li>
<li>I create a shortcut on my desktop, which runs <code>skype --callto:+14445551234</code> or something similar.</li>
<li>Double-click the shortcut.</li>
<li>skype window pops up, immediately calling this number</li>
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<p>Can this be done?</p>
<p>I know there is a Skype API. Can this be done from a normal skype installation on Ubuntu, without installing any developer tools?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT: I am considering this question to be still open</strong>, because I would like to know if this is possible from a default installation of skype without any additional functionality.</p>
<p>However, the answer below regarding "<a href="http://skype4py.sourceforge.net/doc/html/" rel="nofollow">Skype4Py</a>" does answer the desired outcome, albeit with an additional tool. I will mark this as the answer if another is not forthcoming in a few weeks.</p>
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5288 | 1 | 5368 | 2010-10-06T21:18:09.613 | 8 | 3411 | <p>This is a silly, nitpicky little thing, but I have a laptop with a less-than-desirable amount of screen real estate, so it bothers me. I've added a bunch of application launchers to the default panel at the top of my screen (to the right of the Applications/Places/System menus.) The problem is, I can't seem to control the spacing of the icons - I have quite a bit of space available at the right of the panel, and I can drag each individual icon over, but it seems like each icon is attached to its neighbor to the right. So I move one over, and the next one comes with it. Then I move that one, and the one to it's left comes too. The end result is I have several clumps of very-closely-clustered icons, with a lot of space between each clump.</p>
<p>Is there any way to control the spacing automatically? Snap to grid, auto-space, anything? Because my screen is tiny and resolution is pretty high, each icon is very small, and when they're so close together I sometimes end up clicking the wrong one.</p>
<p>I'm running Lucid, and am open to installing things if there's a package that would give me more control over the presentation. I'm also relatively new to Linux, so maybe there's a setting I'm missing somewhere in one of the preferences menus.</p>
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5290 | 1 | 5429 | 2010-10-06T22:23:45.863 | 3 | 363 | <p>I have always been under the impression that all I need to do in order to reach the Windows machines on my network by their hostnames from Ubuntu was do add the '<strong>wins</strong>' option to the 'hosts' line in my <strong>/etc/nsswitch.conf</strong> file, but since I installed Maverick (from RC iso, new install) that doesn't work anymore.</p>
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<p>Any ideas?</p>
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5291 | 1 | null | 2010-10-06T22:32:53.797 | 4 | 9525 | <p>When l look into Ubuntu's System Log Viewer (I think that's the name in English) the messages categories are blown up with 70000 lines and almost 12MB in size. It mixes up messages from May this year and recent messages from the last few days.</p>
<p>How can I remove the old messages from May?</p>
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5292 | 1 | 5293 | 2010-10-06T22:36:35.763 | 6 | 3548 | <p>How do I play drm encrypted wmv files in Ubuntu? If it is possible, how do I do it. I've tried playing it with vlc and MPlayer media player but does not work. I am getting a scrambled picture when I play it through vlc.</p>
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5294 | 1 | 5327 | 2010-10-06T22:52:06.410 | 9 | 6405 | <p>I'm used to this Windows behavior that using <kbd>CTRL+SHIFT+Cursor Keys</kbd> I can select text word-wise. <kbd>CTRL+Cursor Keys</kbd> jumps word-wise and I use that a lot in combination with <kbd>SHIFT</kbd> to select text.</p>
<p>This seems to be a "Windows thing" because it just works in all application. Now turning to Ubuntu 10.04, it doesn't work. <kbd>CTRL+SHIFT+Cursor Keys</kbd> just behaves like <kbd>CTRL+Cursor Keys</kbd>, i.e. I jump between the <em>words</em> but I can't select them that way.</p>
<p>Another gotcha: I use <kbd>CTRL+Cursor Keys</kbd> to move fast between words, press down <kbd>SHIFT</kbd>, release <kbd>CTRL</kbd> and move the <kbd>Cursor Keys</kbd> to select text char by char and it doesn't work either. I need to release both keys complete.</p>
<p>Is there a way to enable this?</p>
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5295 | 1 | 5297 | 2010-10-06T23:18:48.183 | 4 | 206 | <p>I am happy that <code>gconf-editor</code> exists, and is readily accessible (once you know about it), but it seems strange that there are two completely seperate places to customize an application's look and feel. </p>
<p>I am quite new to Linux, and after two decades of Windows, this "new" paradigm sometimes leaves me feeling like a lost and wandering pilgrim... but I've come to realize that I don't need MS at all (almost; just one .NET app I need/want) ...and when I get mono installed in wine, I won't even need to run Windows in a VM :) ... but I actually get a perverse sense of happiness (or is it revenge) at seeing Windows as the "guest"... but I digress...</p>
<p>In the meantime, I want to understand how <code>gnome</code> is put together.</p>
<p>What is the general design intent of <code>gconf-editor"</code>?<br>
Where/how does it fit into the <code>gnome</code> world?<br>
Are <strong>all</strong> settings for a given app availble via <code>gconf-editor</code>?<br>
Is <code>gconf-editor</code> conceptually any/much different to the Windows registry?</p>
<p>Phew!...</p>
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5296 | 1 | null | 2010-10-06T23:41:22.873 | 5 | 43310 | <p>I am battling to install Windows Media Player 11 on Wine. I have tried the following:</p>
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<li><p>Download Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP (link in Resources) and save it to Ubuntu's desktop. Once downloaded, right-click and select "Open with Wine Windows Emulator." Follow the on-screen prompts for installing it to your system.</p></li>
<li><p>Go to "Applications" then "Wine," select "Programs" and open "Windows Media Player." Click "File" then "Open" and locate a DRM file you want to play. Select "OK" to load it into Media Player.</p></li>
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<p>I installed Wine (Which is step 1).</p>
<p>But I am having problems with step 2 (Download Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP (link in Resources) and save it to Ubuntu's desktop). I'm just not finding a way to do it. </p>
<p>I may be overlooking the (link in Resources) Can't find it. </p>
<p>I am stuck!</p>
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5298 | 1 | 5302 | 2010-10-07T03:36:25.193 | 2 | 1770 | <p>Recently, I installed Ubuntu 10 Netbook edition (on my netbook, yes, obvious). My battery died literally, while I was using Ubuntu. </p>
<p>Now, when I restart the computer, it seems that GRUB has duplicated all of the entries in the MBR that pertain to the partition that houses my Ubuntu install. For example:</p>
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Ubuntu ... (Recovery Mode)
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Ubuntu ... (Recovery Mode)
Memtest ...
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Windows (Windows 7 starter loader)
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<p>When I try to access either of the two Ubuntu instances in the boot loader it presents me with an error akin to this: </p>
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<p>What I would like to do is:</p>
<p>Wipe out grub, and Ubuntu, and then reinstall Ubuntu (I really only use it for emacs and ess for R so there's nothing in the home directory that I need to backup)</p>
<p>How would I go about "resetting" my system? Or fixing the issue that I have. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance! </p>
<p>BEB</p>
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5300 | 1 | 5301 | 2010-10-07T04:57:05.427 | 13 | 8547 | <p>I've download <a href="http://tmux.sourceforge.net/">tmux</a> and am trying to install it on Ubuntu 10.04.</p>
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Configured for Linux
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tmux.h:1102: error: field ‘repeat_timer’ has incomplete type
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5304 | 1 | 29649 | 2010-10-07T09:21:08.147 | 36 | 14600 | <p>Mono 2.8 was recently released boasting a couple of large performance improvements. It's far too late for it to make it into Maverick and I'm fairly inpatient.</p>
<p>I don't use Mono for anything mission-critical (<em>just</em> playing music and sorting photos) and if it breaks everything related to Mono, I can probably either live with it or fix it. I'm aware of how much I stand to lose if I mess things up.</p>
<p>So with that acknowledged, does anybody here know how to build Mono in a way where it could be dropped in to replace the current Mono (2.6.7)? By this I mean ideally mirroring the packages that Ubuntu uses so that if the worse does happen, I can just downgrade the packages.</p>
<p>Or is there a PPA that does all this for me?</p>
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5306 | 1 | 5341 | 2010-10-07T10:42:56.857 | 5 | 808 | <p>I've set up the <kbd>Super</kbd> key to open the main menu. It works. </p>
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<p>,<br>
I have a shell script <code>super.sh</code> which injects a <kbd>Super</kbd> keypress into X. It works; the menu appears.</p>
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<p>.<br>
I use <code>xbindkeys</code> to associate <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd> with <code>super.sh</code>. It should work, but it doesn't! </p>
<p>However, when I associate <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd> with <code>nautilus</code>, or make <code>nautilus</code> the only active command in the script, then <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd> successfully launches <code>nautilus</code>... so I am a bit puzzled about what's happening to the script. </p>
<p>Any ideas, anybody?<br>
If there is a another way, I'd like to know about it,<br>
and I'd still like to resolve this macro-generated key-press issue.</p>
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5310 | 1 | null | 2010-10-07T11:58:48.307 | 3 | 9879 | <p>I have an external bluetooth adapter, it works if I attach it before booting, but if I connect it afterwards it fails to detect any device.</p>
<p>Is there any command to scan for and detect devices?</p>
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5311 | 1 | 5312 | 2010-10-07T13:45:05.920 | 3 | 569 | <p>I've been looking without much success for a good Linux multi monitor wallpaper switcher. (Doesn't mean my search technique isn't fundamentally flawed) Regardless, would appreciate any suggestions/referrals.</p>
<p>To provide some additional perspective, I'm mainly looking for the linux equivalent of <a href="http://johnsadventures.com/software/backgroundswitcher/" rel="nofollow">John's Background Switcher</a>.</p>
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5313 | 1 | 5796 | 2010-10-07T15:11:24.280 | 4 | 2243 | <p>I'm trying to make emacs span two screens but the size is automatically resized to a single screen. I'm running a NVidia card in TwinView, with Ubuntu 10.04. I'm having this problem with other programs also. </p>
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5314 | 1 | null | 2010-10-07T16:05:10.410 | 11 | 7540 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4662/where-is-the-x-org-config-file-how-do-i-configure-x-there">Where is the X.org config file? How do I configure X there?</a> </p>
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<p>Where is the xorg.conf file in <strong>Ubuntu 10.04</strong>?</p>
<p>I couldn't find it in <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code></p>
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5319 | 1 | 5607 | 2010-10-07T17:34:44.667 | 3 | 5411 | <p>I tried to change the resolution using the following commands (found <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution" rel="nofollow">here</a>):</p>
<p>Use <code>xrandr</code> to check the current configuration and available modes:</p>
<pre><code>$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 64 x 64, current 800 x 600, maximum 32000 x 32000
VBOX1 connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
800x600 60.0*+
640x480 59.9
</code></pre>
<p>Use <code>cvt</code> to get the proper modeline for 1280x800:</p>
<pre><code>$ cvt 1280 800
# 1280x800 59.81 Hz (CVT 1.02MA) hsync: 49.70 kHz; pclk: 83.50 MHz
Modeline "1280x800_60.00" 83.50 1280 1352 1480 1680 800 803 809 831 -hsync +vsync
</code></pre>
<p>Create the new mode using <code>xrandr --newmode</code>:</p>
<pre><code>$ xrandr --newmode "1280x800_60.00" 83.50 1280 1352 1480 1680 800 803 809 831 -hsync +vsync
</code></pre>
<p>Use <code>xrandr</code> again to check that the mode was created successfully:</p>
<pre><code>$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 64 x 64, current 800 x 600, maximum 32000 x 32000
VBOX1 connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
800x600 60.0*+
640x480 59.9
1280x800_60.00 (0x11a) 83.0MHz
h: width 1280 start 1352 end 1480 total 1680 skew 0 clock 49.4KHz
v: height 800 start 803 end 809 total 831 clock 59.5Hz
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<p>However, when I try to add the new mode to the display with <code>xrandr --addmode</code> I get the following error:</p>
<pre><code>$ xrandr --addmode VBOX1 1280x800_60.00
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 150 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 18 (RRAddOutputMode)
Serial number of failed request: 18
Current serial number in output stream: 19
</code></pre>
<p>Of course, if I try to set the new resolution for my current display it fails (the mode isn't associated to te display):</p>
<pre><code>$ xrandr --output VBOX1 --mode 1280x800_60.00
xrandr: cannot find mode 1280x800_60.00
</code></pre>
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5320 | 1 | 5321 | 2010-10-07T17:53:57.090 | 9 | 1062 | <p>I've noticed on the Desktop version when typing commands like <code>sudo apt-get install mysq</code> I can tab complete like when resolving file paths. However in the server edition this does not happen. Is there a package I need for this, or a configuration file to make this happen?</p>
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5322 | 1 | null | 2010-10-07T18:58:06.437 | 2 | 745 | <p>I'm trying to install Django on a machine that is primarily a network administration box; it has nagios and cacti installed on it. I went in today to install Django, and when I followed the following instruction I got weird results:</p>
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<p>Told me it was freeing 77 MB worth of files. I should have taken more notice and stopped, but I assumed if apt-get wanted to do it, that it was probably OK. The next thing I see however is an ncurses based app explaining that we were now removing cacti. I hit ctrl-z, as I don't want to remove cacti. Now my system seems to be in a bit of a weird state (though cacti is still OK). For example:</p>
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
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+++-===============================-===============================-============================================
rF cacti 0.8.7e-2 Frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems a
rc cacti-spine 0.8.7e-2build1 Multi-Threading poller for cacti
rc libgd2-noxpm 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3.1ubuntu1 GD Graphics Library version 2 (without XPM s
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<p>Also, I'm seeing lots of these errors now (as expected, I suppose):</p>
<pre><code>E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
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<p>What's my best next step? I don't want to lose my cacti config for sure. What's the best way to go about cleaning up this system?</p>
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5325 | 1 | 5340 | 2010-10-07T19:42:23.543 | 3 | 1603 | <p>I hope this question is appropriate for this forum. I have an embarrassing problem. After trying to get Ekiga-Softfon running I suddenly have no sound anymore at all. But I can't tell how I caused this problem anymore.</p>
<p>Below I have collected some relevant information:</p>
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lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
uname -r
2.6.32-25-generic
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
Intel ICH6 with STAC9752,53 at irq 16
aplay -l
**** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) ****
Karte 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], Gerät 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6]
Sub-Geräte: 1/1
Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], Gerät 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958]
Sub-Geräte: 1/1
Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
Wiedergabe: WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate: 48000 Hz, mono
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 audio
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
ps -C esd
PID TTY TIME CMD
ps -C arts
PID TTY TIME CMD
ps -C pulseaudio
PID TTY TIME CMD
1239 ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio
grep "^audio" /etc/group | grep "$USER" | wc -l
1
lsmod | grep "snd"
snd_intel8x0 25588 1
snd_ac97_codec 100646 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1002 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
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snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26726 0
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
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snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 54148 12 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 6620 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7076 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
head -n 3 /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
head: „/proc/asound/card0/codec#0“ kann nicht zum Lesen geöffnet werden: No such file or directory
head -n 3 /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0
0-0/0: SigmaTel STAC9752,53
PCI Subsys Vendor: 0x1028
head -n 3 /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0+regs
0:00 = 6a90
0:02 = 0000
0:04 = 0000
asoundconf list
asoundconf: Befehl nicht gefunden
cat ~/.asoundrc
pcm.pulse { type pulse }
ctl.pulse { type pulse }
cat ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf
cat: /home/rasmus/.asoundrc.asoundconf: No such file or directory
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<p>There are some bits of German: "Befehl nicht gefunden" means "command not found", "kann nicht zum Lesen geöffnet werden" means "cannot be opened for reading".</p>
<p>I'd appreciate any help.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9/how-do-i-enable-automatic-updates">How do I enable automatic updates?</a> </p>
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<p>My Aunt and Uncle asked me to setup a Ubuntu machine for them, but here's the problem; they live 200 miles away, and are VERY computer illiterate. </p>
<p>So, my question is; how do I set the update system to be fully automatic? (IE: download and install the updates by itself) I know it's bad practice, but the altnertive is a diffrent distro or a lot of phone calls and fuel usage :/</p>
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5335 | 1 | 5337 | 2010-10-08T04:12:57.057 | 18 | 6691 | <p>Well the question says most of it... </p>
<p>Gparted reports the used space as 4.86 GB<br>
Nautilus reports used space as 15.1 GB...(via Properties of /media/U_0298_data)</p>
<p>Why is this space <strong>used</strong>? and who is reporting the correct figure? (...if either)<br>
Is this related to the <strong>Trash</strong>?</p>
<p>PS. It is the only partition, and is using the entire drive space.</p>
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