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Yup! Shrodi conquers again!

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Toshiba Portégé R500 (R500-S5004)
Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AGN
Kernel driver in use: iwl4965
Distribution: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa

Hello!

It was time for me to upgrade from Lucid Lynx, so I installed 14.04.3 on a Live USB drive, and it worked so well that I actually used it like that for a few months to see if I could get...

So far, I've got a SanDisk Extreme 16GB card to experiment with.



Claimed read and write speeds of up to 45MB/sec.
SDHC
Class 10
UHS-1

That link is a great resource for Quantal Quetzal (12.10). I was able to use some of the information in Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS, especially to add XvBA to XBMC, which seems to be the appropriate...

Catalyst has been able to resize the screen for me:



On a 19" LCD monitor with VGA,
On a 37" LED TV with HDMI,
On both the former connected and resized correctly at the same time,
...

Thanks LewisTM! I will try that.

I also got a good laugh from your signature, so thanks for that as well!

Larry, I probably will give it another try.

I've been experimenting more with Precise Pangolin, and although I have resolved all the speed issues with Unity 2D, there are other things that I don't...

So, since this thread has been successful for at least two of us, it might be useful for other users who might also be at their wits' end (like seande), and might also find this post through a search...

Been there! Done that! I think it's probably not very hard to figure out how to undo stuff that has been done and may not have worked as intended, such as the "purge" command I showed above, but for...

Thank you very much! This also worked for me so your translation is obviously quite good! Note that I had to:


Choose the option to run in terminal (not just run) when I double-clicked, since it...

Thanks ibjsb4! I may not be a "real man" apparently, and you just saved me the trouble of searching for myself! ... :KS

Edit: Just had a quick peek, and I'm not at all convinced that it's what I'm...

You do have sound though, after removing Pulse, right? Otherwise, when I reinstalled Pulse after removing it, it then worked fine.

The old Dell has given up the ghost and gone to heaven since (not...

Thanks for the update johnu1960.

In your shoes, if that is your machine in the link I posted earlier, I would try the latest Long Term Support version of Ubuntu, which is Precise Pangolin 12.04...

Thanks Cheesemill. I'll take a look at that, but I'm not certain I want a classic Gnome desktop with no enhancements. It's not that I don't like Unity 3D, it's that I find the delays on my hardware...

Thanks for commenting, drfox. Part of this may be personal perceptions, or just not knowing how to do certain things, but this is what I remember about my trials with XFCE:


Didn't work well...

No news, unfortunately.

I'm delayed in my efforts since I seem to have wrecked my best Compact Flash card. I was using it in an attempt to boot from an IDE to CF adapter in another laptop, and now...

That's great news ... I think I'll try Unity 2D to see if I can get used to it. I like the novelty and some of the shortcut options are actually better for me than before, so I like that too (the...

Not before the end of Long Term Support for Precise Pangolin, in 2017, right ... or is that something completely different?

A few questions, and observations:


I was wondereing about MATE and Cinnamon, but then I wondered why I wouldn't just use Mint instead of Ubuntu in that case. Is there a reason to choose one...

The issue:

I started using Ubuntu in 2009 and have been using it ever since. What I like about it:



Running on a laptop with a core 2 duo 1.2 GHz CPU and a maximum allowed 2GB of RAM, boot...

Looks promising, heyup. I might try that out later.

In the meantime, I get around my transfer issues by simply uploading stuff to the free (for 5GB) Google Drive. From there I can transfer to or...

Is this your model?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00874655&cc=ad&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_caen_c-001_title_r0004#N296

It would seem to have two slots, but with the...

Well, I don't know if I'm actually getting anywhere, but I came across this guide for PCMCIA cards, including the second link, which is specifically for memory cards (sections 4.7 and 4.8):
...

Sorry, it took me a while to respond, but I had one of those emergency situations ...

Anyway, to answer your question, I'm using a CardBus 32 bit CF adapter only.

Here's an interesting thing,...

I've got a little further with this, but I'm not sure if the result will help, using this command on an inserted CF card (this is not the larger card I want to use eventually for data, but it is...