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+1 to Old Grey Wolf- I only use a touchpad if there's nothing else available.

I like a USB wireless mouse and keyboard. If unavailable, I prefer the joystick thingie that IBM/Lenovo's have.
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As implied, I have XP Pro running under Ubuntu 12.04.

I've set VB to capture USB (no string).

What I need to do is to capture my Blackberry (BB) AFTER I've started the software in...

@afz12 and @cwsnyder

Thank you for the help- it's appreciated.

This thread can be closed.

Cheers

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I'm running 12.04 as host, with MS XP as a VB guest.

I want to move my system to another HDD, possibly under 12.10.

Is there any way to move my existing VB installation, complete...

@cheesemill and @habitual

Thank you and especially for the basics, as virtualisation is all new to me.

I'll check everything this evening, but:

Yes, replaced "username" in the string with my...

Hi, All

I've gone through the posts and am still confused.

Host: Ubuntu 12.04, 64-bit
Guest: XP Pro, SP3, 32-bit
Virtualbox 4.1.12 Ubuntu

USB drives don't work, with an error message re...

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At present, I'm running 11.10, but will install 12.04.

I have a separate DVB-T STB and I was wanting to "make" a PVR/DVR. What I was thinking was to plug the STB into an Easycap 2.0,...

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I gather that there is no way to establish the actual number of Ubuntu (or other Linux distro) users. The "count" website seems to be out of date regarding current Ubuntu distro's and so...

@rmt1947

Dead right- works! Thank you.

Only 7/8th's of the way there though- audio and video freeze after a minute or so- why is it always 1 step forward and then a bit backwards?

Cheers

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Well, I've got the video working using the Easycap in VLC, by selecting <Open Capture Device> and entering "/dev/video0" under "Video Device Name", but I can't get the sound to work (needs...

Weird... after installing mesa-utils, all is good.

@BicylerBoy

Thanks for that. Weird- after installing mesa-utils, all is sweet as.

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Hoping someone can help...

I did a fresh install of Oneiric on my IBM/Lenovo R400 (7439-CTO). I then installed ccsm and went in to change the Unity icon size- settings changed, but no...

Right, I did some more checking and came up with the following:

marc@marc-ThinkPad-R400:~$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer...

Mine would be to sort out the problems with the Intel GMA 4500MHD drivers...

The series has been around for some time now and having only 2D is a pain!

Well, with the 4500 chip I have had no backlight problems under 11.04 and/or 11.10, although I found plenty of mentions of this in the forums.

My problem is no 3D, ie the vesa driver is being used...

G'day, All

I did a fresh install of Oneiric on my IBM/Lenovo R400 (7439-CTO). The GSM broadband worked! Whoot, whoot!

I then installed ccsm and went in to change the Unity icon size- settings...

Hi, All

Well, I'm experimenting with Natty prior to making my mind up about Ubuntu.

I have a showstopper at the moment- my wifi connection.

IBM Thinkpad T43
Atheros AR5212 mini-PCI
...

Cal

Many, many thanks- refer edited post above.

Regards

Cal

I can get through all the pre-install Win cr*p with the OEM disks, but, when it reboots to load Win, the GRUB story comes up.

Are you saying run Ubuntu in Demo mode to install the Win MBR?...

Sorry about the confusion- perhaps I should have said I tried to re-install XP.

I cannot install Win first, I get the GRUB problem: all I can do at present is to put Ubuntu back on and (try) to...

Oops

Thanks, caljohnsmith

Right- there's no Win left on the disk. All I can do is reload Ubuntu 8.10 over the entire disk and carry on from there.

I was already a bit confused by the command syntax...

Thanks, Catalyst2Death

I tried that before, but it didn't work... I'll try again...

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I had Unbuntu 8.10 installed on a laptop to experiment with.

I decided to go back to Win XP, using my laptop's OEM recovery disks, ie I have no XP CD.

Everthing went fine, but, of...