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  1. [all variants] Re: Acer Aspire 1800 just dies, sometimes under load. WinXP is fine.

    I wonder - have you tried any other distros? I'll maybe have a go at installing something else. Sometimes I use Puppy and I don't think that ever failed this way - but I never drove it hard with...
  2. [all variants] Acer Aspire 1800 just dies, sometimes under load. WinXP is fine.

    'ello.
    My Acer Aspire 1804 laptop just stops sometimes. Like dead. Switches itself off, as though the power had been pulled. I have a base install of Kubuntu (upgraded to 9.10), but it also happens...
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    Re: Is Ubuntu really for everyone?

    I reckon there's a weird bathtub curve of usability.

    (sorry, I got a bit carried away here... it's late and I am weary in every way)

    Quick version : No.

    Long version :

    At one end there...
  4. [SOLVED] Re: Can I write to memory as though it were a file?

    FOLLOWUP: It's also worth looking up "tmpfs". A fixed size of ramdisk must be specified, but it will use swap space if necessary (e.g. if "real" applications need more physical ram). And you can...
  5. [SOLVED] Re: Can I write to memory as though it were a file?

    Excellent, thanks.
    (had to change permissions to let me write to it)

    Is there still a "thanks" button on these forums?
  6. [SOLVED] Can I write to memory as though it were a file?

    I want to dump debugging information from some perl code to a file, but it seems silly to keep accessing the disk (maybe 1,000 times a second). On ******* I simply created a ramdisk and wrote to a...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Video Editing: Kino VS Kdenlive

    Calm down, it's not nearly ready yet.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra#Lumiera_rewrite
    http://www.lumiera.org/

    Well, quite. I would emphasise that I don't use WMM for any real work, but...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Video Editing: Kino VS Kdenlive

    I'm running Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid - with the crappy prematurely-released KDE 4.1.4) and I got everything working fine. I seem to remember I had help from someone in my band - who, it turns out,...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Video Editing: Kino VS Kdenlive

    Hey Jukingeo, long time no see! I too have been wrestling with cinelerra - I'm just finishing a big project now and I'd say I'm pretty fluid with most of the basic features. It's worth getting the...
  10. [ubuntu] Re: Resized Ubuntu partition - now it won't boot

    Curious - I tried again from within the kubuntu 8.04 partition, and it found /boot/stage1 fine on (hd0,8 ), then root-ed and ran setup and it installed perfectly. It even preserved my menu.lst....
  11. [ubuntu] Re: Resized Ubuntu partition - now it won't boot

    (I'm appending to this thread in case anyone else has similar problems - sorry it's so long, but I'm trying to be precise))

    I have similar problems!
    I had/have a triple boot system, as follows:
    ...
  12. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    I think that, not realising that apt-get had updated grub itself, I did it manually. I think I was still in chroot though.



    Good point - yes it is, I'll have to change that, won't I? (Just...
  13. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    FINALLY!
    For info:
    Using the method described got the kernel (etc.) files installed and a new GRUB menu.lst was created. However the relevant entry looked like this


    title Ubuntu 8.04.1,...
  14. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    Yes, the kernel is there (writing this from a different machine, so can't quote it here)
    I had forgotten about linking to one grub menu from another - that will come in extremely handy.
    It still...
  15. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    Uninstalling the kernel - ulp!

    But hurrah! - it seems to have worked.

    Now just to update grub and tinker with some menu.lst files...?
    Tomorrow though - it's 3:30AM



    root@aluminium:/#...
  16. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    It did exactly the same as before - I don't get any output from the first commands (except to say that sda7 is already mounted from the previous time) , the only interesting bit is when I try to...
  17. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    :) I know you're trying to help , but remember you are battling against my not-inconsiderable talents for getting things wrong (I wasn't sure I had told you everything correctly).

    Anyway, I knew...
  18. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    That sound awfully permanent - won't that modify the system (and if so - how)?
    I am currently running from the intrepid system (/ on sda10, /boot on sda10, bootloader on sda2)
  19. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    Sorry, I was being dense and using sda2
    sda2 is the bootloader partition (with GRUB) which used to hold /boot
    Hardy is on sda7

    Using my (only just) working 8.10 system I did all those first...
  20. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    Good morning!
    Still awake? [- EDIT: I guess not, I'll be back at the offending machine at about 10PM UTC, which I think is 2PM where you are :-) ]
    I have booted with an Ubuntu 7.10 live CD (the...
  21. [all variants] Re: /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    Cool, Thanks for that caljohnsmith, that look's promising.
    I'll try it tomorrow though - it's 2AM where I am!
  22. [all variants] /BOOT destroyed, VMLINUZ-, INITRD- all missing! how can I re-create them?

    Arg.
    So in trying to install Ubuntu 8.10 alongside 8.04 I managed to completely wipe the bootloader partition which held both GRUB and my 8.04 /boot partition.

    The GRUB got re-built, pointing to...
  23. [all variants] Re: Can I reset my video card using a script?

    Would that not screw up my dual-monitor configuration? The last time I tried to use the "proper" ATi drivers I found I could no longer use xrandr, so I'm currently using fglrx.

    I'm running kde, so...
  24. [all variants] Re: Can I reset my video card using a script?

    Exactly - I'm not trying to restart the x server (that doesn't help). I'm trying to re-initialise the display hardware somehow.

    - and that works. It seems that it is changing display mode from...
  25. [all variants] Re: Can I reset my video card using a script?

    Thanks, but no - that just restarts the display manager, so it's as though I'd just switched on and I just get the garbage again.
    I need to do some kind of reset of the display hardware.
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