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Hi all,

Im having a Amilo M1425 and having strange problems with suspend on lid close.

First time I close the lid it does what I set it to do in the power manager, eg suspend on lid close.
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Hi,

im also having this strange problem of Ubuntu suspending on ac power unplug, did you find any solution to the problem?

Hi,

I have a Sony Ericsson p9i and Network Manager (NM) recognizes it perfectly the very first time I connect it, if I unplug it and reconnects it then it is not recognized by NM anymore.

Here...

When I try to run

sudo apt-get upgrade
I get segmentation fault after it has finished reading the list of packets.

I cant run synaptic or aptitude or the update applet, they are all giving me...

cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth0

iface eth2 inet static

Hi,

Network Settings is messing up my routing table :)

I have a computer connected to several networks and I am trying to use network manager to handle the network configurations.

right now...

When you get as far as what should be the login screen try to press

CTRL+ALT+F1

This will give you a login prompt to the shell, from here you can run commands to configure the x-server etc.

many ways to do one thing ... very ubuntu/gnome-ish ... or perhaps it was the other way around .. cant be sure anymore

are you synchronizing your clock against the internet servers?

right click on the clock in upper right corner -> preferences -> unlock

make sure you have the right timezone and "configuration"...

I dont have your graphics card so I dont have the same problem, but have you had a look in this thread?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=767854&highlight=NVIDIA+FX+5500

It seems like this file has been corupted or specto has been updated and cant understand its own file anymore

/home/dreamsofubuntu/.specto/watches.list

I dont know how specto works but if you...

Wouldnt it be better if you linked the screensaver from the post :)

While we are at it, I think the forum looks nice and fancy but it uses way too much screen estate.

Lots of empty areas in the layout, seems inefficient to me who does not sits in front of a >=...

Im also trying to come up with some way of finding the information you want in the forums without having to dig through massive amounts of posts OR use google.

Please have a look in the thread in...

My idea is that the threads which have been marked as problem solvers would show up when you searched for similar or same keywords as the persons who marked the threads/posts, and of course we should...

This would most likely be help by some way of lifting up threads related to the words I made in the search that others before me have realised solved their problem with similar or same keywords.
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My fav rule when it comes to computers is KISS so Im all in favour for keeping the interface simple.

If the user interface is getting complicated, maybe we could have an "advanced...

Ok what I was aiming at was not a "im feeling lucky" solution but rather more something along "this list of threads has a very high probability to contain the solution to you problem".

It might...

I was thinking along the lines like:

1 ) Person A search for "Keyword1 Keyword2"
2 ) A gets a huuuuuge list of threads, most of them does not have anything to do with the solution of A:s problem...

I dont know how many would use it, I know I would.

By judging from how many who takes their time to spend hours in these forums just looking for someone to help (like I used to do when I was a...

Stickies doesnt do the trick, we cant have every thread with the best a solution to a problem as a sticked thread, then there wont be room for new threads :)

What we need is some way of ranking...

No, but I can see why it looks like that.

I want to divide all the support technician in this fourms in to different levels of support.

Everyone who have called a support line knows how...

I know thats why its so great, I want to keep it that way! I love forums. I just want some way of find the information I am looking for as quick as possible and I believe im not the only one (just...

Well the "thanks button" does just do what it does, thanks the writer of the post.

The thanks button is more like a popularity contest then a way of filtering out solutions to tech problems,...

Anyone can start a thread and ad tags to it, it doesnt mean that it contain useful information.

I am trying to figure out a way of filtering out information by using the computing power of all...