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Ah, found it. :)

I can now see the option to edit the thread, in order to mark it as "solved".

Thanks, again, for your tip, oldfred.

(I can't find the "advanced editor", in order to mark this thread as "solved". So, if a moderator can do it for me...)

Hello there, oldfred.


I'm very sorry to be only answering you (and updating this thread) now... But, because this is a shared computer, that I was talking about... Shortly after I made the...

I've partitioned (by hand, and using a specialized tool/distro) a hard drive, using a "GUID Partition Table" (GPT) - with an exact (to the byte, non-2MB(?) interval) partition alignment - where I've...

Thank you very much for that information, parkham.

It might be an old thread, but the equipment is still laying around anyway, in case it might be useful someday. And if I need it again, now I...

But, by the way...

One much simpler alternative to all of this...

You can always just install Lubuntu 12.04 and, at the login screen, choose Openbox, instead of LXDE, in the session type menu....

The folks at Crunchbang have made a great work in producing a distro with Openbox installed by default, but it's based on Debian. For those of you who want some of Ubuntu's functionalities - like...

(Answering my own question)

I guess not...

Having a separate /home partition is always a good idea, in case there's any problem with the operating system itself and we need to change it or...

I have accidentaly deleted the "LC_MESSAGES" directory of my locale. :oops:

(Im my particular case, the one located at "/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/". And I have, for the time being, copied the one...

I can confirm that the TP-LINK wireless card that you mention (TL-WN751ND) works perfectly on Ubuntu 11.10.
I've just bought one and it works like a charm.
I had checked your post before I bought...

I can confirm that - as of December 2011, and using only the official Ubuntu 10.04 lucid repositories - one can easily solve the problem, simply by switching to a different kernel.

I had the same problem, with this model, of a slow connection and frequent connection losses on Ubuntu 10.04 lucid.

I've installed a new kernel and the problem was solved.

There's no need to use "ndiswrapper" and follow all those complicated instructions.

You can easily solve the problem, simply by switching to a different kernel.

Same problem here. And it's easily solved.

As of December 2011, and using that same "version 4" model on Ubuntu 10.04 lucid, I can confirm that switching to a different kernel - simply by...

Yes, for netbooks it does make sense to use as less pixels as possible, in order to have more free space on the small screen. But for those kind of computers there are specific distros (of which I...

Unity is horrible.
Way more complicated than GNOME.
We don't need integrated windows borders just to save a few pixels. Most of us have big screens by now.
Please, people at Canonical, seriously...

I you have installed it, try uninstalling the "pulse" audio system.

I have just finished configuring Xubuntu 9.10 on a laptop and was also having the problem of alsamixer apparently not saving the...

You're editing the wrong file.


The file to be edited is the:

~/.etwolf/etmain/profiles/<your-nickname>/etconfig.cfg


Don't forget to update PunkBuster...

You're welcome.

Yes, in my case, I can now play my Bach flacs, with them being cut a few seconds from the end, but I still can't play my mp3s.

I think it' a bug in "phonon", since K3b also...

Try changing the phonon backend.

Uninstall the "phonon-backend-gstreamer" package and install the "phonon-backend-xine" one instead.

(http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7197502&postcount=3)

(Unless you have some sort of old-fashioned type of power button different than most people have nowadays, for this, you obviously need someone who can turn the computer back on, once electricity...

(wrong thread, can't delete this message, ignore it)

Could it be this problem?

In hardy my HP printer was not detected anymore also, and after I added ",[my username]" in the "scanner:x:105:hplip" line in the /etc/group file it solved the problem.
...

Could it be this problem?

In hardy my HP printer was not detected anymore also, and after I added ",[my username]" in the "scanner:x:105:hplip" line in the /etc/group file it solved the problem.
...

I've tried installing mplayer-fonts and it stopped giving me the error about the font. But now the video plays slowly and desynchronized (audio not matching the video) and after a few seconds it...