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  1. Power button and suspend issues on a Dell Latitude 11 tablet 5179

    Hey folks,

    I'm so close in my quest to get a Linux-powered hybrid tablet working. and yet so far.

    I just got a refurbished Dell 5179 tablet. It's a Core m5-6Y57, so more standard hardware than...
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    Re: Need Help Installing Steam With Wine (Bug)

    This problem is caused by winetricks being out of date (the checksum it has for the steam installer seems out of date... one wonders why they bother keeping a checksum for it, or at the very least,...
  3. Re: Howto: WOW with Wine (help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft)

    As a followup to my earlier post (#2421), I managed to break my WoW install in exactly the same way. FWIW, the culprit is using WineTricks to install mfc42 (Microsoft Foundation classes), which is...
  4. Re: Howto: WOW with Wine (help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft)

    That worked perfectly! Thanks!
  5. Re: Howto: WOW with Wine (help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft)

    Has anyone else updated to Wine 1.3.27 and had problems logging in? The Wine 1.3.27 update cropped up along with a bunch of others in the Update Manager that I installed last night (memo to self:...
  6. [ubuntu] (Rant) Can't edit the mount points in the 11.04 installer? Why?

    I'm fuming about this again after doing my third install of 11.04, this time on one of my laptops.

    Why was the ability to edit mount points taken away in the 11.04 "Allocate Drive Space" portion...
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    [SOLVED] Braindead and horribly insecure workaround

    I hit this after creating a virtual machine using a minimal install CD and the Attobuntu install script. Since this is just a virtual machine used internally, I solved the problem by manually setting...
  8. [all variants] Problem: missing wacdump in lucid

    So, I installed Lucid netbook edition of my P1510D, and went to re-setup the touchscreen using Sam Engstrom's Perl script (see post #37 in this thread), only to hit a snag: the wacom-tools package...
  9. Re: Transfer Wine Directory to Hard Another Hard drive

    I've had few problems when installing a new Ubuntu or other distro with just copying the .wine directory over. You do sometimes run into issues with newer versions of Wine breaking previously working...
  10. [ubuntu] Re: SOLVED: Re: Hibernate/suspend/sleep do not work at all in 9.10 Karmic

    Turns out unmounting the SD automatically on suspend/hibernate is easy. The sleep demon will execute files in /etc/pm/sleep.d before sleeping or hibernating.

    I added a script to this directory to...
  11. [ubuntu] Re: SOLVED: Re: Hibernate/suspend/sleep do not work at all in 9.10 Karmic

    sfordin,

    Thanks! I was at my wit's end with sleep mode on my Fujitsu P1510D, which I recall had a working sleep mode in Feisty. I keep an SD card in the slot constantly to hold MP3's and other...
  12. [all variants] Re: Calendar and Task-button gone from Thunderbird

    Had the same problem... looking through Synaptic, I found the package "lightning-extension" which seemed what I needed. Sure enough, installing it made the calendar reappear in Thunderbird.

    If...
  13. [xubuntu] Re: [SOLVED] Beige G3 Tower (oldworld) Massive Fail

    Apparently, I've solved my issue. It looks like larger hard disks (mine was a 250GB) really really confuse poor MacOS 9.2.1, such that anything touching the hard disk without its involvement (i.e....
  14. [xubuntu] Re: [SOLVED] Beige G3 Tower (oldworld) Massive Fail

    eldon.t,

    That's essentially what I did before... I did end up with 6 Mac partitions as viewed from Linux. What I meant was that I partitioned the disk within Mac OS, asking Disk Manager to make a...
  15. [xubuntu] Re: [SOLVED] Beige G3 Tower (oldworld) Massive Fail

    Thanks to the posts here, I've been able to make some progress... I get to install Xubuntu using the alternate install ISO, and get all the way to the step of copying the boot directory to the...
  16. [xubuntu] Re: [SOLVED] Beige G3 Tower (oldworld) Massive Fail

    Hi folks,

    Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm trying to follow these instructions and have hit a snag.

    I'm trying to get a Beige G3 (300Mhz, 384MB RAM, 250 GB IDE hard disk, ATI Mach 64...
  17. Thread: Nullmailer help

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    [all variants] Nullmailer help

    Hi folks,

    I came across a bunch of error messages in my syslog recently from nullmailer complaining that it couldn;t send mail. After checking the forums here, I found out that I could configure...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Wordstar-like Editor

    Yes. It's an alias for Joe that starts it in Wordstar-compatibility mode. Joe has several other aliases like that, such as jmacs (emacs emulation) and jpico (pico emulation).
  19. [all variants] Re: [SOLVED] Fujitsu Lifebook P1510d Touchscreen stopped working in Hardy

    concertedrxn,

    Thanks! That worked for me undert Jaunty but I did run into a weird issue... after doing seterial once to set up the serial port, the perl script worked fine. However, from then on,...
  20. [all variants] Re: [SOLVED] Fujitsu Lifebook P1510d Touchscreen stopped working in Hardy

    Does someone have a way of incorporating this into Intrepid, since it uses Hal rather than relying on xorg.conf to configure devices? I've looked at the Hal documentation and I can't figure out how...
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    [ubuntu] Getting switchable graphics chipsets to work

    Hi folks,

    My Asus U3S has a switch to select one of two graphics chipsets (integrated Intel video for power saving, and a discrete Nvidia chipset for high performance). I've been trying to get...
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