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sudo ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase /home/user/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase

Enter your account password for the user account, this will then display the...

When I'm filling out a web form, and want to take a new paragraph, I hit the enter key twice rapidly, but this often causes X to crash.

Why is this and why does it only do it sometimes?

Use the "nomodeset" kernel option to disable the new boot screen thingie ma-bob. Its probably best adding it to Grub2 to do this automatically (instructions are on numerous posts)

Install your...

Been using Maverick 64 bit for a few months now. There have been a few hiccups but nothing serious and I use it as my main OS !! I know that's a no-no but in the 2-3years I have been testing I've...

I don't know if its me going too fast, but my entire system GUI seems to be reacting very slow since the system update today. For example the drawing of the system menus, application menus, opening...

VLC will stream over the network Media > Streaming ...

Regarding the Nvidia sound card, do you have a HDMI output on your machine, this is probably related to that.

Try running aslamixer from the terminal, and post the output fro us to see.

I have a similar problem with my audio, but it seems that the volume is minimized or muted on reboot. Here's how I get my sound to work again.

In your Sound preferences if you go to the Output...

I am having a similar problem, as icons appear to be "sticky" .

For example if I require elevated privileges the icon seem to stay in the panel until I reboot. Same with File copy icon and any...

Selected the Intel sound device but still having problems with lagging sound. Anyone got a found the problem and/or a solution?

I have the same problem, sometimes after a reboot the title bars don't seem to load. I use the "Reload window manager" and this fixes it. Seems to be random, or I haven't seen any pattern.

Yes I do, do you know what's wrong?

Tried the solution on this bug report and appended noapic to kernel options, no change however.

To add to the strangeness I seem to have two audio controllers, a lspci lists these.

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
01:00.1 Audio...

I think your problem is that the nouveau driver is getting to your graphics card first.

Hold down shift and enter the GRUB menu.
Append 'nomodeset' as a kernel option.

eg. linux ...

Recently, Ive noticed that I seem to be having a strange lag of 30secs or more on my sound. For example when I listen to an mp3 and skip the current track, Rhytmbox displays a notification telling...

ah thanks, I didn't change the sliders! Its working now.

After yesterdays updates I have noticed that key repeating has been disabled (I didn't do this myself). For example holding down the delete key to erase a string of characters or holding down the...

Today after updates I am getting a small icon in the system indicators panel with the following message "Session active, not inhibited, screen idle".

I Googled it and found the following...

I've had a lot of problems with ATI graphics stuff in the past and have just brought a new laptop purposely avoiding ATI (the one I wanted was ATI). This is my choice, same as my choice to scrap...

I totally agree with you. For a newbie Ubuntu can be very hard to get your head around. I also understand the legal reasons why Ubuntu has it do it this way.

But surely there is a more simple...

Snap, I have same laptop.

I have compiled the rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009_64bit and it works fine for a while, but after about 5 mins of use the system locks up. I have emailed Realtek,...

Gina try the nVidia beta driver on their website.

Regarding the shares, do the user accounts match on each of the two machines ie both have a matching user account with same username and passwords?

If they don't it will ask you for a password.