I was actually using the classic Gnome desktop.
My decision has nothing to do with Unity. I would have been delighted if I could get Unity to work before I did my reinstall yesterday (and I can...
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I was actually using the classic Gnome desktop.
My decision has nothing to do with Unity. I would have been delighted if I could get Unity to work before I did my reinstall yesterday (and I can...
MAFoElffen: Thanks very much for all your help. I really appreciate it and I know you've put in a lot of effort to try and resolve my problem.
Please don't spend any more time on my issue.
I've...
root@taipo:/var/log/lightdm# dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
error: Error spawning command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=b6c3998971d569cf4a76b16800000006 --binary-syntax --close-stderr': Child process...
Wallpaper folder chmod'ed with (frankly insane) 777 permissions, dpkg-reconfigure configured to set lightdm as default greeter and rebooted.
Same symptoms. Default Ubuntu wallpaper. fully functional...
x-0-greeter.log is empty.
I do have x-0.log:
X.Org X Server 1.13.3
Release Date: 2013-03-07
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64 Ubuntu...
have upgraded to 13.04 (do-release-upgrade) and none of my greeters work.
Lightdm was giving just a black screen.
I've made the following edit:
[SeatDefaults]
user-session=ubuntu...
I have upgraded to 13.04 (do-release-upgrade) and none of my greeters work.
Lightdm was giving just a black screen.
I've made the following edit:
[SeatDefaults]
user-session=ubuntu...
Another Ubuntu upgrade and more problems.
I've never had one go smoothly.
Lightdm shows a black screen.
GDM draws a background but I can't log into anything.
Why do I ever bother to upgrade? It...
I've got a Radeon HD7500 series card.
I'm not really desperate enough to put the time into drivers downloaded from ATI although I don't dispute that they may work very well.
My philosophy is that...
On my system at least this driver is buggy as hell has resulted in horrible screen artifacts, X freezing, and about 9 gnome-panels stacked on top of each other. I'm sticking to the open source driver...
I have a problem related to fglrx but I am not sure if it is the same as this or not. I have linux-headers-generic installed and I am using an ATI Radeon HD 7500 series card.
If I install the...
This was a very useful thread for me.
Note that this problem doesn't just apply to "old" cards.
My HD7500 (which I believe is new?) was also affected.
I've got a brand new install of ubuntu.
I've installed ncmpc.
If I try to connect using ncmpc it fails (failed to resolve hostname).
With telnet it works.
So:
ncmpc -h localhost -p 6600 =...
Thanks that is good to know and I will look into it.
I've been trying to get some help on irc in #freenode.
Ive now replaced all my /dev/<blah> stuff in fstab with uuids.
Yet I'm still getting...
O.K. first a bit of information.
I have a drive layout that Ubuntu seems to really struggle with.
I have one ide drive with /boot, swap and /.
When the system has booted this is enumerated as...
It has been in the past a very common problem:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mythtv+ubuntu+white+noise&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-beta
Ive got a...
With the previous version of Ubuntu there was a well known issue with Mythv.
Some sort of resampling problem between Mythtv and pulseaudio resulted in frequent screeching white noise.
There was...
Bump.
Lots of requests for help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1664485
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1161017
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1147610
Don't seem to be...
Well, this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1088538
has got the theme working!
I have followed the instructions on the Ubuntu wiki and have a working wiki under /usr/share/moin/wilko.
But its really ugly and I cant seem to get themes to work.
Ive put the Europython theme...
How the heck do I install the dictionary?
I have installed wbritish so I've got a word list under /usr/share/dict/ but no matter where I symlink this to (including the location suggested by the...
Maybe this isn't actually a Flash problem.
I've just discovered that its working in Chrome.
Still broken in Firefox.
Odd...
I think I have the same issue.
I cannot for the life of me get iplayer to work properly.
I can install the iplayer desktop (which is pretty awful really) and download stuff and play it, but I cant...
I have an hauppage dvb card with two DiBcom 3000 MC/P tuners showing up as /dev/dvb/adaptor0/frontend0 and /dev/dvb/adaptor1/frontend0.
These are visible under "devices" in me-tv so it knows about...