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6 Days Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Ubuntu 12.04 LTS armhf preinstalled root password in General Help

Unless that build is different, root is disabled by default. Use sudo to do admin tasks.

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6 Days Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Connect Ubuntu 8.04 to VGA projector in Hardware

I tried installing Xubuntu and Lubuntu 12.04 fresh when I first got the laptop, but neither of them worked, I forget what errors it gave me. I'll try...

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6 Days Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Does this gnome-keyring warning matter? in General Help

I believe the keyring is just your saved passwords from websites and such. I don't really know why it would disappear, but it shouldn't be a huge...

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6 Days Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread What happens when I kill Gnome? in Absolute Beginners Section

All processes that run a GUI are children of the GNOME process, so if you kill gnome they would go too. For a better command, you might try sudo...

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Hekabe replied to a thread Connect Ubuntu 8.04 to VGA projector in Hardware

Update on the installation situation. Normal Ubuntu 10.04 installation hung with CPU lockup errors. Since there's about 90 GB worth of files on here...

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6 Days Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Can't play midi files in General Help

Those are proprietary plugins, they can't be installed with an upgrade. Use sudo apt-get in the terminal to get gstreamer-plugins-ugly and...

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6 Days Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Does Flash Player Use GStreamer? in General Help

you could try to use lsof to find out what processes are using your sound card. It'd be something like this: lsof /dev/dsp

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6 Days Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Setting Swap Size in Absolute Beginners Section

You should probably just set it to 4GB. As for the processor problem, where does it say AMD 64-bit?

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6 Days Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread 64 bit 12.04 System Failure in Absolute Beginners Section

Hate to ask the obvious, but is the 64-bit Ubuntu partition full?

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6 Days Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Connect Ubuntu 8.04 to VGA projector in Hardware

I'm doing an upgrade to 10.04 as we speak, actually. As for the choice question, I needed an LTS, and 8.04 was the newest distro in which the...

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6 Days Ago

Hekabe started a thread Connect Ubuntu 8.04 to VGA projector in Hardware

Alright, here's my issue. I have a fairly old laptop, a 2006 Dell Latitude D610, running Ubuntu 8.04. I need to connect a projector to it through a...

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread [eeebuntu] freshly installed, no internet in Absolute Beginners Section

Can you see wireless networks? Use sudo iwlist scan in terminal and post the output. As for the USB drive, connect it, then type "dmesg tail" in...

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Cannot Upgrade To 13.04 in General Help

If you've got an extra flash drive, you could just download the live-cd iso off of the website and upgrade from that.

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Unable to update my system. Various errors in General Help

I don't really use Software Center, but you could try a total reinstall: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get --purge remove software-center sudo...

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Radeon 7770 Driver in General Help

Can you type gtk-jockey (the command for Additonal Drivers) into a terminal, and post the errors it outputs?

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Can't Shutdown in General Help

You could write a script like this: #!/bin/bash sudo init 0 and just place it on your desktop and mark it as executable, then run it to shutdown.

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Can't update/install. Disk seen as full in General Help

What does running df -h tell you?

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Error during upgrade 12.10 to 13.04, How can i relaunch the upgrade? in Installation & Upgrades

Try cat /proc/version If it says quantal near the end, you're in 12.10, if it says raring, congratulations, you installed 13.04.

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Can't update/install. Disk seen as full in General Help

Have you tried manually installing each of the listed packages using apt-get install?

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread keyboad help in General Help

It sounds like the keyboard version settings somehow got changed. Have you checked Keyboard Settings to make sure the layout listed is correct?

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Screen Flickering in General Help

Can you ctl-alt-f1 into the terminal login?

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1 Week Ago

Hekabe replied to a thread Lotus Notes 8.5 in Ubuntu 13.04 in General Help

ibmnotes Is this what you're looking for? I assume after you buy it gives you a .deb or something.

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