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Yeah - here is the output of ID



kenn@kenn-laptop:~$ id kenn
uid=1000(kenn) gid=1000(kenn)...

Can someone point me in the direction of more info on this? I have never know this to be the case in unix/linux ever... If you change permissions then you are all set - there was never any logging...

Hi there,

I thought I understood this, I put me (my user) in the www-data group then changed the permission on the /var/www folder to be group owned by www-data and `ls -ls` reads rwxrwxr-x. I...

Hi there,

Is there a reason VLC plays my DVD's just fine but Xine cannot? Obviously libdvdread3 is installed or nothing would play anything... Anyone got any suggestions where I can look?
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Hmm? All it shows is the master volume, how do I see other things?

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Hi all,

Well I soved this issue by piecing together pieces of the right xorg.conf file - I still have no idea why unbuntu is having such a tuff time with my middle of the road hardware - a...

Just as an update I tried


sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg



I just went through the keyboard options and that was it... My xorg.conf file looks like the one below. It didn't change.
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Hi there,

I have been working through other posts but nothing has helped and my problem seems to be a little different than most. I just installed 8.10 on a dell Dimension 4600 with a built in...

The problem is that my resolution is to low, my monitor can do 1200x1028 and it is and 800x600.

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Hi there,

I just installed 8.10 on a Dimension 4600 with a Samsung SyncMaster 770 TFT monitor and when I go to System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution and click Detect Monitor nothing...

Did you install the libdvd3 codec?

scope out this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=899502&highlight=dvd+codec