haha maybe it's the OS I need to update! I have enormous pain with the wireless in 9.10 (gnome network manager is so buggy it hurts..), so if the Lucid one is better maybe I should just bite the...
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haha maybe it's the OS I need to update! I have enormous pain with the wireless in 9.10 (gnome network manager is so buggy it hurts..), so if the Lucid one is better maybe I should just bite the...
restarted, straight back to the "Unable to initialise PCS Database" error.. :-(
remembered that originally I couldn't get the driver to install from the Hardware drivers applet so I had downloaded...
ok thanks that put it back, just reinstalled it so I'm about to restart, I'll report back if that changes anything...
$ lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9488
not sure what that means??? it's a Dell 1645 XPS laptop, so not sure what the graphics would be, I don't...
hmmm now the ATI driver doesn't even show up as an option in the Hardware Drivers list to install!!!
I'd already removed some of those packages so your command line didn't work initially, not sure what the following did??
I'll try installing the driver again. I've avoided upgrading to Lucid so...
Hi guys, looking for some help as I'm pretty out of my depth with this one. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on a dell XPS 1645 laptop with an ATI graphics card.
I was previously running the proprietary...
I need to connect to a clients VPN to access some of their internal systems. To connect I was given a username/password and a hideous document describing how to import certificates and generate a...
with screensaver-settings did anyone get that working? I installed it but the doco for how to actually run the thing was non-existant?? maybe I'm missing something obvious but it didn't seem to...
confirmed, Dell XPS 1645 here and it works fine out of the box with 9.10
only thing is I want to control the settings on it (eg stay on when plugged in) but there's nothing exposed to do that...
never mind, turns out that I had a dodgy version of the /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command from my hacking which I'd forgotten about, swapped it back to the original and all is now well, super+L...
any response on this issue? I went through the howto, then rolled it back but I'm getting this error message so I'm guessing I missed something, but I don't know how to troubleshoot...
I can now...
@Bob, thanks for the post. When I tried swapping to xscreensaver previously I followed this howto,(yes I probably shouldn't have followed a nearly 4yo howto!), and I could only lock the screen by...
so the .desktop file I have above is in the /usr/share/applications/screensavers directory as pixelcity.desktop, but still doesn't show up in the gnome-screensaver list... :-(
will...
ok, this is a curveball question I know...
There's an OSS screensaver on windows that I love called PixelCity (links:blog post, github). it's pretty cool. and it runs fine on my Ubuntu (Karmic...