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Is there a way to view what the process ID is per window in Ubuntu 12.X? For example if you right click on the window you cant see what process number it is or even what the name of the...

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I'm having problems printing with a Brother HL-2140 series printer. It was working several months back and now it isn't.

When I try to install the Linux drivers from Brothers website I...

I'm on a Macbook Pro i5 (6,2). Everything works on the Live CD. After removing the PAE kernel from Synaptic Package Manager and installing the 64 bit generic kernel my keyboard and mouse do not...

I'm also having a similar issue. I changed my kernel from PAE to 64 bit. Any ideas? The keyboard was working with the live CD and thats a 64 bit kernel version. I did a uname -a to verify this.
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Any ideas on what would cause a Kernel Panic?

I ran fsck and had a lot of disk errors. Its a new drive?

Error:
Pid: 1, comm: iit ot taited 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu

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Is there anyway to update the System Monitor so that it shows performance in terms of each of the main core threads rather then the usage by CPU?

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I recently upgraded from an Intel i5 to a i7 Macbook Pro thinking that it would be an 8 CPU system. Much to my surprise after I purchased my Macbook Pro i7 and started it up with Ubuntu...

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The brightness controls done via pommed. The display is working on macbook pro 6,2 however the indicator or display that shows up on the screen seems to lag the actual brightness.

(see...

When u install Ubuntu be careful when u create a USB install. The default USB boot creator provided with Ubuntu and Mac wasn't working a few months ago and I had to create a USB boot disk using a...

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System->Preferences->Mouse->Touchpad

Once you do that you you can setup right click and single click selects.

(see attached image)

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Right clicking on a drive will format the drive but Disk Utility 2.30.1 included with Ubuntu 10.10 will not format the drive and says the drive is busy.

(SEE ATTACHED SCREEN-SHOT)

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It looks like the bluetooth code made its way into the mainstream update. I tried to pair it with my Android 2.1 phone and noticed the following error in my /var/log/messages.
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Another point is that NVIDIA with the latest drivers is getting a little greedy. When you update the drivers in Ubuntu there is now a splash screen with a big NVIDIA logo.

I guess that is better...

Can you please post what your errors are in your /var/log/messages file? or you can view your error messages in system->administration->logs

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Yes, I understand. However, the Debian package number 0.0.1 is out of date so I can't compile the code without the rest of the package?

Is there a flag for dpkg that will automaticallly select...

When I tried out the commands that are posted on the page I got the following...

sudo dpkg -i btusb-dkms_0.0.1_all.deb
dpkg: error processing btusb-dkms_0.0.1_all.deb (--install):
cannot...

(see attached screen shot)

Have you tried doing the procedure at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro6-2/Maverick

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I haven't yet. :(

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If you are having some boot issues you should take a look at the /var/log/messages file and see the last few messages.

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Hold on.. from what I'm reading in that html file you posted all I need to do if I already have Ubuntu installed on my drive is boot from the OSX cd and type ...



bless --device /dev/diskXsX...

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Updating the bootloader to use rEFIt rather then grub may not work and still have the same issues. Has anyone else tried using rEFIt?

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I just checked NVidia's website and they have a new driver version 260.19.12. I read in the fine print that some of this is related to ACPI and sleep mode. I updated the drivers and am...

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The packages available with apt-get and Ubuntu are not up-to-date with the release files at Broadcoms website the most recent stable release build is 5.60.246.2 not 5.60.48.36.

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MOUSE IS GONE!

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I have Ubuntu 10.10 on a Macbook Pro i5 and sometimes when I have a external USB mouse connected to my laptop my mouse pointer will disappear perhaps when I lightly tap the...

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How do I speed up the Macbook Pro boot time? In OSX when I boot it goes directly to the mac logo. In Ubuntu there seems to be a 10 second or more hesitation before it access my hard drive. ...

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I rebuilt the broadcom wl.ko module and am using it to do this posting.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

If you were already running a previous version of wl, you'll...