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    [SOLVED] Re: Update Brought Video Problems

    Well. . .The were working after I did the install, then when I updated this morning, well everything went BIG. I didn't think to try that. Hand over the dunce cap, I'll wear it for a while.

    Thank...
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    [SOLVED] Update Brought Video Problems

    I'm currently running Ubuntu 20.04 by means of a fresh install
    about 3 months ago. Everything went fine, and I've been cruising
    along since with no issues.

    I just now did an update. When I...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Unknown Volume Sprouted up

    Thank you for your helpful response!
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    [ubuntu] Unknown Volume Sprouted up

    Just yesterday, I was looking at my file manager, and noticed a 52mb volume mounted there. I unmounted it, and have since gone back and forth to looking in the directories there and unmounting it...
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    [SOLVED] Epson WF-3730 - under Ubuntu 16.04

    tl;dr: install
    sudo apt install printer-driver-escpr as a printer driver for Epson printers if you can't find one to work.

    I had to get a new printer. My Epson Workforce 840 died. I like Epson,...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Restricted Formats DVDs not Playing

    OK, I'm not really sure what happened, but it works now. I went through the motions of installing (reinstalling?) libdvdnav4, libdvdread4, gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad, gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly and...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Wine 2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04

    OK, this matter has been resolved, but in a roundabout way. I went round and round installing and uninstalling the Wine repositories with corresponding updates, and installing and uninstalling Wine...
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    [SOLVED] Wine 2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04

    OK, I'm trying to install Wine 2.3 on a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04. Funny thing is, I just did this on my laptop, and now the same procedure that worked before, isn't working.


    sudo dpkg...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Restricted Formats DVDs not Playing

    OK, I reformatted and reinstalled Ubuntu 16.04. Immediately after installing updates, I



    sudo apt-get install vlc

    then


    sudo apt-get install libdvd-pkg
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    [SOLVED] Re: Restricted Formats DVDs not Playing

    If you installed vlc through the software center on 16.04, it might have installed the snap version.

    I installed it from the command line:


    sudo apt-get install vlc
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    [SOLVED] Re: Restricted Formats DVDs not Playing

    Thanks for your response(s).

    How fresh an install is it?

    Downloaded it last week, and I installed it last night. No special home partition. There is no ~/.dvdcss folder. I looked.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Restricted Formats DVDs not Playing

    Did you install libdvd-pkg before reconfigure it?

    Yes. I've gone through the full sequence as mentioned on the referred Ubuntu help page several times.

    Reading package lists... Done
    Building...
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    [SOLVED] Restricted Formats DVDs not Playing

    I've been trying to get my Restricted DVDs to play on a new 16.04 install. I followed instructions on

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs

    Made sure that the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Boot Repair Disk Error Message

    Well, I used an Ubuntu 14.04 disk, installed Boot-Repair as instructed, ran the commands, chose "use maintainers copy" when asked to choose which grub to use, and rebooted and got a

    grub rescue>
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    [ubuntu] Re: Boot Repair Disk Error Message

    Is Internet working? Better to have Ethernet hard wired not wireless.

    I'm using a wired connection. On other boot ups with a live disk, I've had no trouble accessing the net, so I don't think...
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    [ubuntu] Boot Repair Disk Error Message

    I was doing an dist-upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. During the upgrade, dialog boxes popped up asking what I wanted to do about grub, so I answered the questions as best as I can, but obviously...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Update Stalled Now, Won't boot

    Sigh. . .thanks for responding.
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    [ubuntu] Update Stalled Now, Won't boot

    I was doing an update. It got to the point of updating grub, then the process stopped. I did a search for what to do if your update stalls, and most advice agreed to "reboot, then run sudo apt-get...
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    Re: Video Driver Not Working

    OK, got it working following above instructions. Thank you very much for responding!
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    Re: Video Driver Not Working

    Like the instructions found here?

    http://askubuntu.com/questions/206283/how-can-i-uninstall-a-nvidia-driver-completely
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    Video Driver Not Working

    I have a System76 Wildebeest that came preinstalled with Ubuntu 10.04. A couple of weeks back, I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 with no problems. Today I installed the updates, and when I logged on, my...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Year of mail missing

    The mail is POP3 (comcast.net). The update is the regular update from the Update Manager.
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    [ubuntu] Year of mail missing

    I'm on a fairly new computer, a System76 desktop with Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I had backed up my email and restored it to this computer and have been working with it for a few months.

    Yesterday,...
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    [ubuntu] Scan w/ Workforce 840 + Ubuntu?

    I have an Epson Workforce 840 printer. It will print from any computer on the network, I can make copies standing at the printer, but I cannot scan. I've tried scanning using a USB drive and by XSane...
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    [ubuntu] Epson Workforce 840 works in 10.04

    I just wanted to mention that I recently purchased a new Epson Workforce 840 printer today and installed it on my 10.04 Ubuntu computer and it works! At least I know that the printer itself works. I...
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