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You are right. It's just that USB is slower than I thought... Gosh it DOES take a while, to move 400Mb files!
Yes, the buffer was being written. And with USB storage. that's how you want it...

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I am experiencing a very strange problem with copying speed when copying over a USB stick.
The speed itself is fine -- it's just that the time it takes to CLOSE a file is huge.
I straced it,...

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Alright, first answer down:



Easy one: /proc/acpi/battery is now gone. The new one is sys/class/power_supply/

The important ones, that I really feel need to get an answer to before I...

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After 3 years of using Ubuntu on my laptops, I noticed that after less than 1 year the battery capacity is only 50% of what it was when I first used it.

I use my laptop in a pretty standard...

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I had the same problem: I could pair up my Logitech bluetooth program, and it would appear as an option in "Sound Settings".

Then, one day (today, actually), no matter how many times I...

This is what happens if I try to run dhclient manually while teh connection is being established (so wlan1 is there)...



$ sudo dhclient -v wlan1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client...

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I am having a problem with my Ubuntu 12.4. Basically, while I can connect fine with a "normal" wireless access point, I am having great difficulty connecting to anything else -- neither with...

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I found something very obscure on the net which suggested to reset Bios settings to their defaults (the only thing I ever did was swapping CTRL with FN, since anybody sane would want that!).
...

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Update: I tried more with proc:


:/sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi# echo 1 > bluetooth_enable
-su: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
:/sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi#...

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I would love to enable Bluetooth in my new Lenovo E320. I have a kid coming (still in a belly right now!), and would love him to hear some music... and have trouble without Bluetooth!

Under...

Just found this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/365943

That's exactly my problem! Comment #76 says:

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Created attachment 40902...

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I have just installed Ubuntu 12.4 (fantastic!) on my new Lenovo laptop (even more fantastic!).

The problem I am having is that the Clickpad doesn't seem to be behaving OK: if I touch the...

Posterity says THANK YOU!

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(My apologies if this is not the right spot for this message!)

We have recently relaunched Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com). Let me get this straight: we at FSM...

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this worked for me... Suspending is really important to me, thank you for helping out!

Merc.

Hey...
IT WORKED! IT WORKED!

** thank you **

I just gave it a shot and I added:

# ADDED BY MERC
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop

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(plus, is there a way for me to unload/reload all of the ALSA driver modules without rebooting...?) It looks like I have a lot of tests to run and...)

Merc.

Big THANK YOU for your help!

This is what I am getting:


merc@merc-laptop:/mnt/disk/home/merc$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: Conexant CX20582 (Pebble)
Codec: Intel...

Hi people,

I have a Thinkpad edge. I am travelling right now, and will be for the next 2 weeks, and just discovered that my thinkpad's internam microphone won't work. Plugging in an external one...

@agentjon: I tried to do that for 8.10, and no, it didn't make it any better... The problem is subtle, but subtly very annoying...

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I added a comment to the bug. Can you guys see if it's true, that the bug was there, although not as noticeable, in 8.10?

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I just wanted to add that I...

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I have the ugly feeling this is gonna stay broken for a long time...

It probably affects me and 6 other people...

:-(

Merc.

Hi,

One additional note: the touchpad works 1000000% OK with Windows Vista... that was a painful one to watch. Really.

Merc.