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I downloaded xubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso and the md5sum checks. Whether I install from a cd or flash drive I get a black screen and am not able to do anything. The motherboard is an Intel...

Using posts 1 and 135 of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=781059, I set up Concordance for my Harmony 550 and then used the Harmony website to set up my tv, dvd player and pc. The control...

Two features of Mirage (available through Synaptic) I like are that it is lightweight and randomize slideshow can be set as a preference. However, you do not need a terminal to copy the above script...

An image slideshow displays all images in a folder. How do I create a slideshow that spans multiple folders?

I have an adsl internet connection that works great, sometimes. When it does not, a hard modem reboot sometimes brings the connection back. I observe that the modem configuration page at...

My bias clearly favors Intel but the choices offered by a competitive marketplace are good. I just ordered a box that will host a bit torrent daemon and act as boot server for a disk less...

After I was unable to get application specific whitelist option 1 or 2 above to work, I simplified by blacklisting a local google site (64.233.189.104) and retried with the google site address, also...

I am trying to obtain jaunty clarification of the Howto comment that most kernels do not permit whitelist traffic per application. My goal is to block transmission from a specific site but permit...

Never-mind: MoBlock provides this functionality according to the Community Documentation.

I use transmission except for one site that prefers deluge. Each application maintains a blocklist in separate folders. Is there a way to add the one site to the transmission blocklist but not to...

My TV card appears to break alsa-mixer with the log message:

"pulseaudio[1591]: alsa-mixer.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument"

The sound card and TV card are:


:~$ lspci -vnn
...

I can not use the command

sox -c 2 -s -w -r 32000 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp2 -t ossdsp -w -r 32000 /dev/dsp &
because "-w" is an invalid option. What is "-w"? I do not see it listed in the manual page.

I can not complete HOWTO Part A: Step 5 after a clean install of karmic- AMD64 followed by updates. The issue relates to saa7134 configuration?


~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware...

In 9.10, the card=106 (or 107), tuner=61 (or 69) parameters also permit Encore ENLTV-3 to scan channels up to 65. With the benefit of these parameters and...

Immense thanks. The kernel upgrade worked perfectly.

As an unrelated follow up, the Chronos Video Shuttle appears to remain unsupported. README.saa7134 refers to: ...

Karmic ( kernel 2.6.31) does not support my TV card:


~$ lspci -vnn

Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133]
...

This is a wonderful post, but what is the procedure to unload modules saa7134_alsa and saa_7134? I do not have kmix installed but the modprobe -vr commands do not work as the modules are in use. ...

Your primary issue is knowledge, not hardware. Presumably, when you say TVO you mean TIVO, a specific brand commercial DVR (aka PVR) which can be purchased if it satisfies your requirements. Wiki...

Start here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1043882.

By default, search returns threads with any of the search terms. Is it possible to return only threads will all search terms?

It would be most helpful if this thread could be preceded by a highlighted comment saying:

This thread is obsolete and completely dysfunctional. The thread is obsolete because Evolution now...

Kernel version 2.6.29 added agp-intel which provides support for Intel's G41 chipset. So it makes sense to me that I had to run:
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
before jaunty (kernel version 2.6.28)...

Once I realized I wanted data from VIDEO_TS.IFO, I realized:

5300:~$ lsdvd
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
Disc Title:
Title: 01, Length: 06:18:49.320 Chapters: 40,...

The code:

mencoder dvd://1 -chapter 1-40 -o out.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf spp,scale -stereo 2

works if a dvd has 40 chapters but either fails or loses chapters if the...

With the benefit of hindsight and a fresh install, the exact steps required to eliminate my white screen problem from the recovery boot console are:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude...