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    [ubuntu] Re: PS2 Controller via USB Adaptor Failing

    the program to monitor events is called xev.

    However, my Personal Communication Systems, Inc. Dual PSX Adaptor shows no input received by X.

    I'm running gentoo, and need to check what modules...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu 11.10 - System freezes on restart

    also
    http://ubuntuforums.org/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=11360765
    has the latest steps in the final post on how get past not booting properly :)
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu 11.10 - System freezes on restart

    does the computer stop loading before you can log in?

    press escape to see the text of what the computer is doing and we should get an idea of what's going on.

    Also worth trying is choosing...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Messed up .Xauthority

    glad to be of service :)
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    [ubuntu] Re: Troubles With 11.10

    1, dunno

    2, run alsamixergui and check your levels

    3, backups are your friend

    and I agree, the upgrade failed for me and I am now reinstalling.
    (nfs shares wouldn't mount on boot causing...
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    [ubuntu] Re: mount points not available

    hi,

    yeah, a real CD, the install CD that you have, if it's a liveCD when you put it in and tell the computer to start from the CD it should put you in to a 'live' ubuntu environment where you...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Messed up .Xauthority

    http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/xauth.1.html

    The gist seems to be to run



    sudo xauth generate :0 . trusted


    good luck :)
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    [ubuntu] Re: Some to compile my kernel

    using make menuconfig, the config is saved to a file called .config in your /usr/src/linux directory (presuming that you symlink your kernel source directory to /usr/src/linux)

    this file can be...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Failed upgrade

    hmm

    http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3114385.0 suggests



    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f


    otherwise there are more complicated solutions in
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    [SOLVED] Re: Failed upgrade

    try



    sudo dpkg --configure -a

    si no funciona
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    [ubuntu] Re: mount points not available

    are you able to boot to a liveCD?

    or is this error when trying to boot to a LiveCD?

    Mount points are what Linux refers to areas of your hard drives (and a few other things, but for now, this...
  12. [ubuntu] Re: New upgrade freeze. now Ubuntu will not load

    lesson for the future... keep your important stuff on a new partition and ideally backed up (there's loads of guides out there for partitioning)

    but, back to your current problem; on boot up grub...
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    [xubuntu] [SOLVED] Re: locale (?) display problems over ssh

    At the moment I'm not very parfait with how locales work, but to work around this issue adding



    export LC_CTYPE="en_GB-UTF-8"

    to your bashrc file ( /etc/bash/bashrc (systemwide) or...
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    [xubuntu] Re: locale (?) display problems over ssh

    turns out it is Gentoo not displaying UTF-8 correctly in a posix environment; I'll post in the forums there and post back the solution, should it be isolated :)
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    [SOLVED] Re: Quota doesnt work

    could've sworn I posted another reply... :/

    anyway, the gist was

    see this book (LINK)
    and the block size of 4k would give you 2560 blocks per 10MB...

    the book link should help you set up...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Quota doesnt work

    ah; one more thing....

    should've seen this earlier...



    d rwx r-x r-x shows
    d - directory
    rwx - owner can read/write/execute contents
    r-x - group can read / execute contents
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    [SOLVED] Re: Quota doesnt work

    sb1 is formatted ext4 (as shown by df -Th)
    whereas in fstab you mount it as ext3, this shouldn't affect the write permissions however, but change your fstab to ext4 for /mnt/sdb1

    there's a useful...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Quota doesnt work

    hi, one of the pitfalls of people new to the terminal:

    df -th is different from df -Th

    the capital makes a difference...

    the ls -lah /dev/disk/by-uuid
    shows us that there is only one mount...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Quota doesnt work

    I'm guessing that should be along the lines of



    $sudo editor /etc/fstb
    add the line
    /dev/sdb1 /mnt/hd ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 1


    can you put your whole fstab here and the...
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    [xubuntu] locale (?) display problems over ssh

    Hi,

    I run Gentoo on my laptop and Xubuntu on one of my servers; when I log in over SSH aspects of my terminal fail to display correctly

    Here is a screenshot of alsamixer failing to display...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Does anyone listen to classic fm?

    mplayer http:/mediasrv.musicradio.com/classicfm

    works after about 20-30 seconds, haven't tried it in any non-cli progs, but whack this into a terminal and you're away

    man mplayer will give you...
  22. Re: HOWTO: Ubuntu CLI versions & Framebuffer Programs

    I had the same problem with fbi on 8.10 Intrepid, to get fbi to work in a non root account the user must be added to the 'video' group.

    I used vigr and there is a GUI app for this too, but this...
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    [ubuntu] Re: lexmark wireless printer z1520

    Seems they are quite useless...



    I might try my hand at getting an old 486/586 running windows XP as a print server taking in .ps files and putting out the files to print, wouldn't be hard on...
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    Re: AOL Email Retrieval with Thunderbird

    http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq.html#aol should help you.

    if everything is set up as per that guide, you'll need to troubleshoot your connection / setup

    Phill
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    Poll: Re: What are your system specs

    Asus A7N8X-E
    Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton)
    2 GB Crucial RAM
    800GB HDD space (2x150GB SATA in RAID 0 array and 2x250GB PATA)
    XFX NVIDIA 6800GT graphics
    Xubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
    4x DVD Writer
    4x...
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