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dino99, thanks for the tips, unfortunately it didn't work. That is, I still had blank boxes after putting nomodeset in the kernel boot line. I actually tried a bunch of other things from a bit of...

A bit of a problem report, together with a rant.

I installed Lucid Lynx on a medium-old system, Athlon 2200+ with an ATI video card. No problems during the install itself. The problem is that...

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 (32-bit) and I'm having a problem with the system hanging when I have a USB mouse or keyboard plugged in. I'm currently working around this problem by having both my mouse...

Thanks for the reply.

Message to myself: also check out Clonezilla, Partimage, Rescue Is Possible, FSArchiver, tar.

I've spent way too many hours so far getting my install of Ubuntu 9.04 working (working around a boot hang issue, custom nvidia drivers, compiz, dual monitor setup). I'm wondering what backup or...

I'm having a problem with compiz not being loaded on startup. I am running Ubuntu 9.04 and I installed the proprietary Nvidia driver using envyng, and compiz pretty well once it's started. I added...

I checked the CD and it had no errors. It seems to be something to do with the 64 bit version of Ubuntu. I can't complete the install since both my mouse and keyboard don't work in the first...

I'm having a problem installing Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) - 64 bit edition. My hardware is:

Asus M2NPV-VM (Nvidia chipset) motherboard
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ processor
4 GB RAM

I've checked my...

Hi, I just realized that the default behaviour of Evince in Ubuntu 8.10 actually grates on my nerves a bit. It appears to load as little of the pdf document as needed (with the Loading... message...

Thanks tomszyszko, will try it out next time my sound cuts out, I'll keep on looking for a fix as well.

When I first start the computer, sound is working fine. However, the problem is that sound stops working in all applications after a certain amount of time, usually over 12 hours. Rebooting is a...

I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on a slightly older but not outdated system, Athlon 2200+ with 1.5 GB RAM and a Connect3d Radeon 9600 8x AGP video card. The good news is that 8.10 is much more stable than...

I have Virtualbox 1.6.2 installed on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), it's working perfectly right now though I would like to do one tweak and am wondering whether it's possible.

I have a Windows XP...

I'm having a problem with a Belkin F5D7050 USB wireless adapter in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). There are several versions of this adapter using different wireless chipsets, according to this page:
...

Usually when you download a file, the default location will be the desktop. However when you log into a terminal, by default you will be in the user home directory. So try these commands once you...

Long story short - can't get Nvidia motherboard video working on a 3-year old system (never mind compiz, I get a reduced resolution out of the box, and even when I get it "working" at full resolution...

Hey martinitime,

I'm no expert (which is obvious considering the advice I got from tenmoi) but I've learned a little bit in this whole rigamarole with getting the nvidia video to work. Anyway, if...

Thanks tenmoi, with your help I've made a lot more progress and have my system working at its full resolution with a caveat. Anyway, for others that might be having problems, the page and the...

Hi,

This thread has been quite helpful so far, I'm so close to getting my video card working but need a little bit of help still. I don't have the same video card, my system is an Nforce2...

Thanks for the quick reply Mystilleef, that was it! Looking forward to trying out scribes now!

Hi,

I'm just having a problem compiling scribes on Feisty, no errors come up on "./configure --prefix=/usr", but make gives me the following error message:

Making all in po
make[1]: Entering...