Didn't work for me either. I think I read somewhere that Ubuntu has moved away from polkit. Don't quote me and no flames please - it is just a recollection I have after spending days searching for...
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Didn't work for me either. I think I read somewhere that Ubuntu has moved away from polkit. Don't quote me and no flames please - it is just a recollection I have after spending days searching for...
Suspend doesn't wake up for me either. I lose keyboard, mouse and wireless. Thought it might be my nvidia card clashing with X (didn't do it with 13.04) but Nouvea has the same problems. I have...
FWIW I'm having trouble recovering from suspend (hibernation is okay) but in my case I am running the nvidia drivers. When I change to nouvue it helps but it locks on the sign in box. Even tuxonice...
Open Synaptic, search for and install Gufw. It will show up in your Administration folder.
Regards
John
Hi there,
I have this worrying problem that occurs too often for my comfort. My root user access doesn't seem to time out or shut down.
How do I fix this?
Regards
John
Hi there,
Just venting a bit. I bought a bunch of DVD-R disks to find that I can't write to them. Brasero "seems" to suggest it can handle DVD-RW. How so?
I'm just a bit frustrated. Trying to...
Hi there,
My (Canon) RAW images will show as thumbnails in a few image-viewers out there. Gthumb will handle them these days but my favourite is Geeqie (available through Synaptic).
As the...
I'm a bit confused.
I've installed a new .deb package (Fotoxx) which runs perfectly when I click on it in its /usr/local directory but when I point the menu to it and try to run it, it will not...
Hi there,
I really want to set my menu this way as I've just moved from Mint back to Ubuntu.
Anyway, I've unpacked the tar files to my desktop. There are two main folders within. One is named...
Hi there,
I don't want to sound a pessimist but this has been a long term problem with the kernel and the Intel drivers.
In my case I have learned to live with the speakers not muting with the...
I've had this problem before and I found a solution on this forum somewhere. It has just today (months later) started again. I did an upgrade to FF3.0.8.
A simple and annoying solution is to press...
Hi there, I've broken my cpu scaling.
For some reason I had the applets going okay then I must have fiddled with something and now I get a message to say that Frequency Scaling is Unsupported....
Hi there,
thank you for posting your success with this. I'm having a persistent problem getting the "make" function to work. I have build-essentials installed. I get the following error.
...
Like a good boy I upgraded to the new versions FF3.0.07. When downloading large PDF files (5mb+) the system hangs and locks up. The CPUs are both running at 100%.
Tried to download the previous...
Like a fool I updated to the new version and it hangs on me when downloading large (5Mb+) PDF files. My CPUs are arunning at 100%. System locks up.
Not sure of the issue is with the PDF plugin or...
Thanks mate, all okay
John
estrong,
I tried your link but it through me back to the main forum menu. Would you be able to post it again please.
thanks,
John
Hi there,
I would like to know it is possible to have a different picture on each face of the compiz cube. I have them on the top and bottom but just the one on the the four sides of the cube.
...
I have a problem with the firefox window starting at maximum size and losing my Emerald top frame. To fix it I have to got to view>full screen> and then click the partial minimize button. Unless I do...
thanks Robert I'll give that a try.
Cheers
John
Hi there,
I've managed to record a VHS video onto my computer and change it to an AVI(2) file. (a miracle!)
When I try to convert it to a DVD image the sound does not match the video. Ive used...
Hi there,
Can't really help you.
Just leeting you know I posted yesterday about not being able to get the same chipset working in my UTV3 TV box.
V4Linux site suggests that the chip should...
Hi there,
I have a UTV analog TV box (with an EMPIA EM2860 chipset) which I purchased to convert old vhs to DVD.
I think I need the driver from v4l to get the my usb TV box to work.But the...
Hi BME,
Yes I have already purchased the laptop here in Australia. I have set it up to dual boot Vista and Linux Mint (Ubuntu based but very very good distro).
He is doing engineering at...
I'm in Australia and happily married to my pinay from Davao.
I will be taking a new laptop to my brother in law in Davao: dual boot Vista Business and Linux Mint.
I looked at Bayanihan, but it...