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    Re: Who likes the Elder Scrolls games.

    My favorite TES game is definitely Oblivion, but I have very fond memories of Daggerfall as well. Daggerfall was the first open game I'd ever seen, you could just go anywhere and do anything when you...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Unwanted logout - help!!

    Looks clean. Just to make sure: these logs are from *after* having forced a logout and logging in again? Can you also post the output of:


    cat /var/log/syslog

    It will show if any...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Unwanted logout - help!!

    The log did show a few segfaults related to flash. What you can test is: do a clean boot, don't start any other programs (especially firefox/flash) and see if you can trigger the logout using MakeMKV...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Unwanted logout - help!!

    Could you show the output of dmesg after you have had to re-login? Make the automatic logout happen, login again, open a terminal (Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal) and run:


    dmesg...
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    [ubuntu] Re: can't update 10.10

    Just put a # character in front of that line (it will turn into a comment, and will be ignored):


    gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

    And make that line look like:


    # deb...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Help with 10.10

    That likely means the harddrive is failing. sda is usually the harddrive, but it could be the dvd drive in some configurations. If you have a dvd in the dvd-drive, see if removing it changes things....
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    [SOLVED] Re: Help with 10.10

    Try pressing ctrl-alt-F3. This will put you into a console. Login, then run:


    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade

    If that worked, take a look if things improved:


    sudo service gdm...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Video editing software

    Using avidemux, you can extract the audio from one file (Audio-->Save) and import that file into the other video file (Audio-->Main Track-->Audio Source-->External MP3-->etc.). Then save the video...
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    [ubuntu] Re: can't update 10.10

    Open a terminal (Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal), and type:


    gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

    That will open the file in your text editor.
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    [ubuntu] Re: No sound after reboot from windows

    Could be that the soundcard is still claimed by the previous OS. Does shutting down windows produce a shutdown tune? Disabling that sound might do the trick.

    In XP: go to Start -> Control Panel ->...
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    [ubuntu] Re: USB insertion hangs system

    Does the hang perhaps happen with the usb 3.0 ports only? I ask because the xhci_hcd driver appears to be in active development still (see for example:...
  12. [SOLVED] Re: How do I restore dead mouse and keyboard input from live cd?

    You can try fixing your installation by chrooting from a live cd. What you do is: boot into a live session and use the hard-drive's filesystem as the session's root filesystem. Then update/upgrade....
  13. [SOLVED] Re: dpkg hangs on "Reading database" when using apt-get

    Try running:


    sudo apt-get autoclean
    sudo apt-get update

    And if that doesn't help, this command:


    sudo dpkg --clear-avail
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    [ubuntu] Re: Problems during boot

    Boot into a live session, and mount your harddrive onto the live filesystem. Make a note where it is mounted at. You can take a look with:


    df

    It's probably something ugly like...
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    [all variants] Re: using nano

    Alt /, Escape / or Escape ? are working fine for me. One thing to investigate is if you have a .nano_history file in your home folder. In a terminal, run:


    ls -l $HOME/.nano_history

    to see if...
  16. [SOLVED] Re: Cannot shutdown when 'acpi=off' is set in grub

    On your board (GA-P35-DS3L) it's called the "CPU EIST Function" (EIST = Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology).

    And let's bump my question: do you obtain a truly lower overclock when ACPI is enabled...
  17. Re: If Einstein proved you can't cover all possible outcomes (Paradox)

    I think the phrase "outcomes" is used in different ways in that statement.
  18. [SOLVED] Re: Cannot shutdown when 'acpi=off' is set in grub

    I'm not sure I understand the issue: do you obtain a truly lower overclock when ACPI is enabled (system becomes unstable earlier), or is it a matter of frequencies that are reported wrong?

    If it's...
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    [all variants] Re: HOW TO Set Up the Bamboo Pen & Touch in Lucid

    This did the trick for me:

    if (x == input->absinfo[ABS_X].value)
    (absinfo is a struct itself, so you also have to specify a member.) Good luck.
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    [all variants] Re: PIC interupt

    How old is that computer? Anyway, try booting the livecd with the "noapic" parameter. On the default livecd you can set that option by pressing F6 from the boot menu (directly after choosing the...
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    Re: CPU speed scaling for AMD 1090T?

    Is Cool&Quiet perhaps disabled in the BIOS? Frequency scaling is working fine for me on Maverick (2.6.35 or 2.6.36-rc8). See:


    dmesg | grep powernow
    [ 1.387840] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD...
  22. [gnome] Re: How does the Gnome Weather Applet work?

    Synaptic has this little bit of info about the weather-applet (part of the gnome-applets package):
  23. [ubuntu] Re: Can anyone confirm that trim is working in MM?

    Lots of benchmarks in this thread:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1468995
  24. [ubuntu] Re: Can anyone confirm that trim is working in MM?

    Don't know if it's TRIM for sure, but *something* is performing magic on Maverick for SSD performance. When running the System->Administration->Disk Utility->Benchmark (Read-Only Benchmark), results...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Audio has disapeared

    Ok, so hardware is recognized, and a module is loaded. Go to System-->Preferences-->Sound and take a look at the Hardware and Output options to see if everything is unmuted and the correct profiles...
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