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I'm unable to get my Canon PIXMA iP90v printer to work under Ubuntu (Intrepid - tried originally in Hardy).
This thread instructed me to get the driver and convert to deb with alien. Then I'm told...

Oh dear. I'm afraid that's beyond what I know. I'll let you know if I find out anything that might help, but hopefully someone else who knows more can help out. Perhaps Overdrank will return.

I...

When you have a screen which is other than just a full virtual terminal, that will be running X (x-windows). So normally, you are in X. If you press ctrl+alt+F2 (or F1-4) you jump to a virtual...

the whole thing on one line. I expect it has to be in an x session - so not in the recovery console.

can you see the output of xrandr -q?

Try sudo displayconfig-gtk

Except that xrandr may not work when you're not in x :-(

alt+F1 to get the applications menu
down once from it to get to accessories, but I don't know how far down terminal is

Or alt+F2 and...

ctrl+alt+F2

then log in (username; <enter>; password; <enter>)

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I had the same problem.

if gksu displayconfig-gtk fixes it, all well and good. That's probably the best way. I'm not at my home computer now, so I can't test.

Should it not work, open a...

Do you mean the external monitor wouldn't turn on? Or it turned on but only on a low resoulution - the native resolution of the laptop's 15.4"?

Did you boot with the external screen plugged in?
I find that if I boot without it plugged in, xrandr -q says it's there, but somehow the signal never gets to the screen.
If I boot with it in, the...

I've just recently been playing with making a monitor work, and have I think the same situation as you.

this thread pointed me to the solution, which is using xrandr. Instructions are at...

Try using xrandr
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=861643

To just get the external screen working (cloned, not beside the laptop screen) I...

I'm starting to need encryption with email, and I use the Evolution client, but most people I know who use a client use Thunderbird.

Thunderbird with enigmail interfaces very nicely with...

I find clicking on the button to tell evolution to display the attachment inline works. It then prompts for the password again if you haven't asked it to remember it, but does display the message.
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