Search:

So basically X can't start on my Macbook mid 2010 running the Geforce 320M after installing the geforce driver.

It never really came up properly even out of the box, though the Live version seemed...

Got a PM for this. I have just updated to 9.04 of Kubuntu literally today so I'm writing up these changes for anyone that needs them. Nothing major but copying and pasting the above won't work on...

Hi guys,

So I finally got my sound working in Ubuntu thanks to eggdeng here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=920728

Now a new problem is I'm using OSS because ALSA doesn't seem to...

Sweet, thanks a lot man, second line worked perfectly. Just added it and selected OSS from sound properties in System Properties and everything is working.

It switches off laptop speakers on head...

Ah, getting somewhere, output from dmesg is:
[ 5076.545163] ALSA...

Saw someone else posting this, hope it can help someone help me.
I've turned up everything in the volme control and run alsa mixer to turn up everything.

Also tried forcing a reload of Alsa with...

A couple of things I have noticed.

My optical out port isn't turned on either (no red light like it has in windows) so it looks like the headphone port is turned off.

In audio (HDA Intel (Alsa...

Hi guys,

I have a Sony Vaio laptop although I have sound from the laptop speakers and can even control it using the extra buttons for the sound, when I plug in my headphones, the sound still comes...

I hate iGoogle because it slows down using Google although like most people, I use the google search built into my web browser most of the time. Its nice to have a clean, quick loading google page...

Its just ignorance. Most of the Computer Science Graduates I know that never reinstalled windows don't know how this fact. Don't ask me how they've never had to reinstall windows since you always...

Well Ms isn't great at the whole working with other companies thing.

Note how Apple lost their code legally to Ms over a stupid agreement to share source code with Ms and then you had IBM with...

That's why I picked Ubuntu initially too as I was on 56K. I now use it because I'm used to it and I think its the most stable Desktop distro and that it has good philosophies.

I also think...

Ubuntu does need to work on getting speeds up but its still the most user friendly distro around IMO.

I like a fast machine but Ubuntu is fast enough for me and has the features I want.

I like the idea of Splashy replacing usplash.

I used to always deny this access. It didn't have any negative effect on the OS.

Had to do it when I first got my Dell to get my video's to play properly. Something stupid with an ATI graphics card.

What a stupid company, they can't do anything involving drivers etc.. right. ...

I don't. I don't have anything too important on my laptop. I have the important stuff backed up to my parents computer, my external HDD and my memory stick. I had it on my iPod too but that broke...

I think it'll be like this for a while to come until Ubuntu breaks the barrier of getting on manufacturers computers default (other than Dell and outside the US).

Mostly I think it is occuring...

I think you can but that its not a good idea. For example, windows uses a page file and if your HDD free space goes below the Swap file max size then it can cause windows to become very unstable

I had spare space at the end of my partition after I deleted my windows swap partition that I had setup to see would it make a difference (it dosn't, windows still gets badly fragmented without a...

I think the visual tools are way ahead of the Linux tools. Eclipse is the only Open Source IDE that comes close IMO.

I don't know what it is but my ATI Card has taking a liking to these new drivers released the other day in the software update. Everything is working very fast. Menus are more responsive in Gnome...

I have to say I like the consistency and simplicity of Gnome.

Everything is layed out very well compared to Windows where there are usually 3 different ways of doing every thing in Windows and...

when advertisers start behaving ethically, I'll worry about ad blocking.

XML files are fine, its the lack of comments that is the real pain I think in most code.