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I just purchased an EDIMAX "EW-7811Un" USB wireless adapter, which uses the RTL8188CUS chipset. I was having no fun at all until I found the directions at this link. The directions were exactly...

Sorry,

No solution; just chiming in to say that I, too, am having problems with bluetooth that I did not have before. I am using a bluetooth dongle. I have Plantronics BB903+ headphones. I can...

Also, you can click on the Search icon (in the bottom panel), find your application there, and drag it to the panel. Once you've dragged it there, you can move it to where you want it.

I was unable to watch video on hulu.com, or using the Huludesktop application. In Firefox, hulu.com was asking me to install the latest flash plugin. Huludesktop was complaining that it "...could...

My machine is an HP dv7-1232NR. It runs great on Ubuntu 10.10, with no special tweaks. This machine has a 2.2GHz 64-bit processor, and the ATI Radeon HD 3200 built-in graphics. I have 4 GB of RAM...

Ubuntu has open-source drivers for some ati radeon cards. I've used them on my computers, and they work pretty well. I have not tried a clean installation with gnome-shell or unity, so I do not...

I haven't tried the microphone yet, but the internal speakers work just fine. I can use the speakers, and when I plug in the headphones, sound switches to them. The microphone appears to work; in...

I had a problem with my HP dv7-1232NR laptop. All was well, until an update, then suddenly the headphone jack did not work. The issue was resolved with this fix.
gksu gedit...

I have an HP dv7-1232NR. Hardware is:
barry@barry-laptop:~$ lspci -v | grep Audio
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc...

Did showkey give you any output when you touched the wireless button?

Please try
rfkill list If you don't have rfkill installed, please install with
sudo apt-get install rfkillOn my dv7-1232NR, I get this;
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard...

I have a dv7-1232NR with Ubuntu 10.10, so this might not work for you...but try anyway.

Place your finger on the wireless button (the one that "stays orange"). Then tap the Quick Play button...

UPDATE:

I found the key combination to turn wireless on and off (for my dv7-1232NR). Here's what i did.

I switched to a tty (using Ctrl+Alt+F4). I ran
showkey -k With showkey running, I...

I have a similar problem on my HP dv7-1232NR. The machine has an Atheros wifi card, and it usually works fine. But now and then the wifi will suddenly become disabled.

Supposedly touching the...

Here, too.

Dual-core amd 2.6Ghz with kernel 2.6.35-22-generic

Using command ./fah6 -configonly

Complete error is:
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c:32: __getpagesize: Assertion...

I have the same webcam on my HP dv7-1232NR laptop. It never worked. Then, just this week, my wife plugged in an external webcam. Suddenly the Suyin webcam started working, and now it works fairly...

Strangely, I had this problem with one account on my computer, but not the other. Using the following command did work.
gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled -t boolean...

This did not work for me until I changed
case $1 in to
case "${1}" inThis is the syntax used in the other scripts in /etc/pm/sleep.d on my HP dv7 1232NR laptop with Ubuntu 9.10.

Same problem here. But it isn't f-spot. The error occurs without f-spot installed at all! This error is caused by the process which mounts the camera's filesystem(s).

I also have a problem with the new Catalyst driver. When I switch to a TTY, I get vertical colored bars. The color bars also appear when I shut down or restart.

HP DV8110US 784 MB RAM
Radeon...

Dunno if you are done with this thread, but I thought it might be useful to include this note:

I just discovered that the "cpufrequtils" package was not installed on my machine, despite the fact...

When you first install Ubuntu, some things might not work correctly. You may need a special driver for video, and you may not be able to "see" data stored on NTFS drives (Windows XP uses NTFS). ...

...But you still can't change the folder naming convention. There is a Bugzilla thread about this issue.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329040

The ONLY way to run two Operating Systems at the same time (concurrently) is with virtualization. This is because an Operating System needs to control all of the computer (that's what an OS does). ...

Connect monitor, reconfigure x-server, detach monitor?