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A combination of changing where the bios looked for boot, as well as a fresh install og 10.10 finally did the trick (I put it on that old 60gb partition, so I can just link to all my old data on the...

Thank you so much for your detailed reply!

I actually tried the Super Grub Disk, which is where I think the legacy Grub files have come from. I'll have a look in the Bios, but I don't see how the...

Found an old 2gb USB, so I'm gonna try booting 9.04 from that, and then burning a copy of 10.10 - still not too sure what I might need to do once that's done though.

If it's any help, I ran the boot info script to get some info:


Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010

============================= Boot Info...

As the title says, I installed Conky, and when I rebooted, it sat at a blank screen with cursor... I know Conky shouldn't have this effect (and never has before when I've used it), but it's the only...

I don't think there's much of use in here, but this is what I get starting from terminal:


neur0m4ncer@box:~$ vuze
file:/usr/lib/jni/ ; file:/usr/lib/java/ ; file:/usr/share/java/Azureus2.jar ;...

Upgraded to 10.04 on release day, and now whenever I fire up Azureus (I can't get used to 'Vuze'), my Firefox browsing grinds to a halt, many pages simply timing out - repeated refreshes sometimes...

Hi Jonners - I think we either need to live without Compiz, or live without the extra screen ATM. As far as your screenshot goes (disclaimer: I am NOT particularly knowledgable here), do you have the...

I did enable the Crash Handler plugin, but as Compiz isn't technically 'crashing', there's no output being produced. Although the second screen doesn't display any images, I'm almost certain Compiz...

Tried the manual display setting you suggested, but no luck. Checking to see if it's just Rhythmbox now.

gedit /var/log/Xorg.0.log




X.Org X Server 1.6.4
Release Date: 2009-9-27
X...

Broke again, and I didn't touch anything, I swear!

I maximised Rhythmboxon the second screen and everything sputtered down to Metacity again. I just hope we haven't exhausted possible fixes!

If...

After also completely removing compiz and then re-installing, everything seems fine! I think you've cracked it for me there zippy, thanks a lot! I'll tentatively mark as solved... :D

Now that gave some promising output. Let's see what happens on reboot.

It's a common issue, and there's a relatively simple fix, I'll have a look around for you now...

http://mou.me.uk/2009/10/31/fixing-eclipse-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/

Should do the trick. I...

Go to the Ubuntu Software Centre (in your 'Start' menu) and type in dosbox.

Click 'Install' - you're good to go.

Heh. And now when I do compiz --replace, I get:


$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log ...

That sounds a lot easier!

But then:


$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-195-modaliases nvidia-glx-195
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release.gpg
Could not resolve...

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. As far as I'm aware, the best way to install the driver is to drop into a terminal and stop gdm from running before you install, but I don't get a terminal when I...

shiki-colors makes no difference in the tester account - I even tried mucking about with CCSM settings to try to get it to break, but no 'joy'...

So downloaded the latest nvidia driver, and when I...

So to clarify, I should try removing my nvidia driver? And would that simply mean re-installing nvidia-glx-185 in Synaptic?

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Haven't checked the text files yet, but just done a quick compiz --replace and I get this:


$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log...

It'd be quite a substantial task to transfer files across, and I'd like to figure out what the issue is in case it happens on the new profile.

I didn't know about /.config/compiz so I'll have a...

Okay, so educated myself in the -r portion of the command and have now copied the tester account .compiz to my main account - it worked for a very short while, then stopped working when I enabled...

I'm totally new to the concept of separate users, so when I log in to the 'tester' account, it won't let me sudo cp /home/tester/.compiz even if I try to copy it to the same user's folder. And I...

Now THAT was a good idea! Created new user and everything works how it used to... is there a way of exporting settings that you know of?