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I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my new PC, but when I try to install a driver for the graphics card (Nvidia GeForce GTX560Ti), I can't. I'm wondering if the card is too new for 10.04.

Can...

Excellent. Thanks to you both.

John

Can anybody point me towards an application that will allow me to convert midi files into mp3/wav files, please?

I've looked through the repositories and googled this query, but I can't find...

I don't know what it did, but Super GRUB seems to have cured my problem.

Thanks a million,

John

Thanks, Schmidtbag, I'll give it a go.

Cheers,

John

Some additional info; I've just been comparing menu.lst files, and it seems that the hard drive that was called hd0 (which has XP on it), is now called hd1, and the drive that was called hd1 (where...

I've been using Ubuntu for about 3 years now, but I occasionally like to look at other distros. I thought I'd have a look at the newest OpenSuse distro, so I downloaded and installed it. Didn't much...

Hi mb_webguy,

The problem I was having with my folders not being recognised disappeared when I used ripperX. I don't know what it's doing that I wasn't, but I guess it doesn't matter now.
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Hi Xenophed,

ripperX worked fine; did exactly what I needed.

Thanks for the help.

John

Okay, thanks, Xenophed, I'll have a look at ripperX.

I've got Amarok installed (I added Kubuntu to my Ubuntu setup), and I'll have another look at it. I tried earlier and I couldn't see how to do...

Hi all.

Is there a way of converting music files to mp3 format, and transferring them to a mobile phone via USB?

I've done the conversion part using Lame, but it appears to be necessary to...

It works without the line numbers. Excellent.:)

I haven't seen any other posts regarding this problem, so presumably I'm the only person daft enough to enter the listing as shown, but I'd have...

Er, yes I did. I take it I'm not supposed to.

Thanks very much for that, I'll try again.

John:oops:

I don't know if this is the right forum for this particular problem, but I'm sure somebody will put me right if it isn't

I'm trying to follow the 'Program in C' series which started in issue 17,...

I'm a Ubuntu user, but occasionally I like to have a look at Kubuntu.

I installed it yesterday, downloaded the upgrades and activated the recommended Nvidia driver.

Since then, once I've got...

Good thinking.:)

How do I do that? :confused:

:) Yes, thanks. I've got my Apps menu back.

Thank you.

John

Oops.

Any idea how I can open a terminal without going into the Applications menu? :(

Did that, still doesn't work. Thanks again.

John

Thanks for the suggestion; if I do as you suggested, nothing happens.

John

I was removing unwanted items from the Applications menu,and now the menu no longer appears when I click on the menu bar. When I click on it, it's highlighted and a small square appears directly...

I eventually figured out how to run the program I'm having trouble with (Labcenter Electronics Proteus Ares) in a terminal, and this is what I get:-

fixme:win:AnimateWindow partial stub
X Error...

Since I installed the most recent version of Wine, I haven't been able to run one of my more useful Windows apps (Labcenter Ares). :(

Could somebody tell me how to re-install the previous version,...

Ever since I installed Gutsy, I've been getting an error message whenever I check for updates. This wasn't a problem, because it didn't prevent me from updating.

However, now that I want to...