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Just finished upgrading to 18.04 LTS,...Curious thing is that I've discovered not all .mkv video files are the same,...Some will play fine on my Acer while others do not, Of the ones that do not I am...

Thank you CatKiller.....Yes I knew it was not supported anymore but didnt even think about the driver updates..It seems to play .mp4 files better than .mkv
Im using ffmpeg to convert an .mkv to...

I purchased the Aspire back in 2012 I believe and shortly after I uninstalled Windows and loaded Lubuntu,(currently running 16.04 Xenial 64 bit)...Im wanting to see if upgrading the driver on this...

Running Lubuntu 13.04,trying to connect to wifi but the "connect" button wont highlight,after inputting password.have not ever had issues like this before,any help would be much appreciated.

Installed pulseaudio via synaptic.....:D I now have volume control......Thank you Temüjin

ajgreeny....Thanks again for the headsup on the muted device.

NOTE:You guys wouldnt know off the top of...

Thanks ajgreeny,I appreciate your help,....Im running Lubuntu on an old Optiplex GX280 and 2 year old Asus Eeepc,both work flawlessly.


Temüjin....That was pretty cool,didnt know that...

Thanks...ajgreeny,my apologies.....Some how i couldn't see the tree for the Forest,(looking at wrong pic),Its unmuted,and alsa.conf is set back to card 0,still no go on sound after reboot,I know...

Ive also tried this procedure and editing alsa.conf.......no luck
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2051697

Which one is muted?They appear to be all unmuted "OO"

Acer Aspire one Netbook,No sound....New install of Lubuntu 13.04

I run
alsamixersee alsamixer1
and I select the HDA ATI,see alsamixer2 and 3
but when I close and reopen the terminal alsamixer...

Amen deadflowr........I dont use anything but LTS,Hoping down the road Lubuntu will be able to roll out an LTS or a Rolling Release.

dalpets,click on thread tools and mark as solved.

I have a pretty old Optiplex,I maxed out the Processor(3.04ghz)and ram(2g),Ubuntu 10.04 ran fine,but I wanted to try a Lighter Distro,I fell in love with Lubuntu,elegant but simple,it does what I...

Amen Brother,Really hate to see Lucid go,shes been solid as a rock,but wait,I said that about Hardy:p
Gotta Love the LTS

I've never had an issue with update manager causing malfunctions since 8.04,but then again I only use LTS's

Agreed,Don't shut your updates down.

Thanks,That did it.

amjjawad.......How is the manpower looking for maintaining an LTS?

I understand,Im not proficient at cli and or shell scripts,it opens with this.

java -jar /home/john/TransferOnLAN-0.4.10/TransferOnLAN.jar
Oddly after running this,and Tol opens,I closed it and...

I'm missing something in these steps....
after installing Java I run the first command and get this:

john@john-OptiPlex-GX260:~$ java -jar /full/path/to/TransferOnLAN.jar
Unable to access...

Will do,Thanks


Thanks Whoopie,yea,it would install fine in 12.04,but not 10.04,would get this:

Dependency is not satisfiable: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1)

aj,I extracted the tar.gz to home,and ran the 1st command,and got this output:

john@john-OptiPlex-GX260:~$ java -jar /full/path/to/TransferOnLAN.jar
The program 'java' can be found in the...

Thanks ajgreeny,I will give that a whirl,also thanks for the code.

Can anyone suggest a simple,I mean simple file sharing program like Giver,that will work across Lubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 10.04.Giver is not in the 12.04 repo..Thanks in advance.

Specs from Notebook Review

If you only have 512mb of ram I suggest Lubuntu 12.04,It will run very nice with 512 mem and 2g processor.Mem should be really cheap for that 2005 Latitude,max mem is 2g...