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Hi,
$ top
results show that the Xorg is eating 57% of memory and 1-2% CPU.
The system is quite slow due to this. Please help.
Regards

OK!
Finally I recovered the grub.........!!!!!

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not try this unless you know clearly in which partition your root, home and windows are :-(

1. Download Ubuntu image
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Thanks,
One quick question....
Right now I inserted 10.04 CD and chose Try Ubuntu.....
The CD drive was busy since last 20 mins or so and now suddenly its quit.....
A blank screen......
What to...

Me too :-(
Its since yesterday's update.....
I have Dell 1555 and Lucid / Windows duel boot.
The grub2 sucked after yesterday's update (27th May)
Please help.
Thanks in advance

Friends,
Once again an update broke my Lucid :-(
When I start my laptop, I can't see the options to choose a kernal or Windows as I used to see before. I know my grub is deleted or overwritten...

Friends.
My laptop details are in the signature (at the bottom of this post).
For me, installing the 'xserver-xorg-video-radeon' solved this issue.
So those who have the ATI Radeon graphic card...

Please note that, my Graphic card is ATI Radeon mobility (HD) 4570....
So installing the driver xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd solved my problem.

Hi,
I think, now the problem is solved in my case.
I installed the 'xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd' using Synaptic package manager (searched for radeon)!!!!
All the best...

Update:
This is my second post in this thread. In the first post I complained about the crazy non-stop spinning of the fan!!

Yesterday night, instead of shutting down my Dell 1555, I just closed...

Hi,
Exactly same issue here...
In 9.04 and 9.10 I used to do this modification

#sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Then, in the kernal list I used to add 'noapic' at the end of line listing...

Hi

Use the script in the following web page

http://www.osfight.de/archives/92

Download the script and run the commands.

The down-gradation takes a long time but its worth a try.
Don't...

Hi

Use the script in the following web page

http://www.osfight.de/archives/92

Download the script and run the commands.

The down-gradation takes a long time but its worth a try.
Don't...

I think the -1.11E-15 is just to touch that particular band gain or frequency. Earlier I have noticed that to activate the band gains, sometimes you have to disturb the bars in the Graphic Equalizer....

Hi

Sorry for posting this in Ubuntu forum. This is a general linux topic.

I want to copy files and folders from my current directory to a particular directory say target. How can I accomplish...

I do not want to build it from the source because I haven't tried to build any application from source in Linux and my skills are limited in programming.

But whats in my mind is, where the...

Hi,
This is with reference to the post in
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253098&highlight=vlc+equalizer

My VLC is working fine after setting the equalizer and I am enjoying it. But...

Same issue here tooo....
I searched a few threads and found that the best solution is pressing Ctrl+ Alt + Del. This shuts off and again restarts the comp. Immediately press your Power button...

System > Preferences > Sound

Go to 'Devices' and toggle the first 3 options to ALSA and the 'Default Mixer Tracks' > Devices : your sound driver (for ex : HDA Intel - STAC92xx in my system)
...

I don't know whether this will work or not but you may give it a try because it is easy to test.

System > Preferences > Sound
Go to 'Devices' tab and toggle first two options to ALSA

Now open...

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Thats cool ...
Thank you :-)

Have you tried these ?
System --> Preferences --> Sound
Select 'Devices' tab and select ALSA for 'Sound events' 'Music and Movies' and 'Audio Conferencing'

Next open Terminal and execute the...

Hey
If you are still struggling with the equalizer problem (as I did !) here is a solution. This may help.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253098&highlight=vlc+equalizer

Hey,

I found that the bug is revisited in Aug-09 update of Jaunty.....Geeks are working towards fixing this..
I tested it also. The description is...
When you have a vertical gnome-panel and try...