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Ahh, great - thanks for that.

Ian

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I've got an Ubuntu 14.10 installation and I wanted to be able to choose between the standard ubuntu desktop and gnome on login.

I did:

apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop

Gnome seems...

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I've installed Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Kubuntu 11.10 on a Compaq nx6110.

It seems to work fine, except if I leave the machine for more than a few mins, the power saving kicks in and then when I...

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When I said a machine, it's a motherboard sat on the table with a power supply and hard disk connected! - so it's not a brand name.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Ian

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I booted with acpi=off but there are no additional drivers to install. I also did a dist-upgrade while I was in there but it still won't boot without acpi=off.

I found this page:...

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Thanks for that - I played with the various boot options and setting the "acpi=off" made it boot into the install normally and the install completed successfully.

Any idea why that would...

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I've got an machine that I want to use Ubuntu on but I just can't get the install to start.

Debian installs and works fine.

I've tried Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 - same problem.
I've tried...

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Please use mine!

http://db.tt/n6pzMPm

Thanks,

Ian

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I'm using Nginx and php5-fpm but when I apt-get install phpMyAdmin, it wants to install apache etc because it depends on libapache2-mod-php5.

Is there any way to get around this?

It...

Yeah, I guessed that - I was just trying to stay with the stock packages though...

Thanks,

Ian

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Interesting, thanks.

Ian

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I normally run Debian servers but I have an Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64 Desktop box I need to run an OpenVZ instance on.

However, Ubuntu doesn't seem to have any linux-image-openvz packages.

Is...

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Is there a netbook remix version of kbubuntu available?

Thanks,

Ian

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I've got a rather annoying problem - even now and again I suddenly stop been able to click the mouse.

I can still move the mouse round the screen but I can't click on anything, anywhere.
...

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It's that specific font from aterm I want though.

I'm currently using aterm which looks great but doens't have tabs and I can't copy from there and paste into VirtualBox for some reason.
...

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Is it possible to get things to read .Xdefaults automatically without having to run that merge command after every change?

Also, if you remove something from Xdefaults it doesn't get...

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I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and having a few problems getting a terminal to my liking.

I like white on black but when I do that with Gnome Terminal it looks a bit blurry.

I can get aterm to...

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It did the same without the Radeon but worked without the Nvidea!

Thanks!

Ian

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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 8.10 on a machine and when I boot into either the installation or the live cd, I get the background image and the mouse cursor works but I never seem to get...