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@jjww: I feel your pain! I have a desktop pc similar to what you described, And finally out of sheer desperation I tried this:http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexubuntu. I was very pleasantly...

I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04-x86_64 with a triple boot system:
/dev/sda=1tb. Western Digital sharing Windows 7 Professional x64 with Ubuntu
/dev/sdb=1tb. Western Digital with...

@zune_cph: You might want to check this out:https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/973096

I'm still experiencing the same problem: watching videos in 3d mode results in desktop reverting to login screen in 2-5 minutes. When I switch to 2d mode either in unity or gnome-everything works...

Great that you were able to fix your problem. My graphics card is 'Nvidia' and I tried your suggestion without success.
I just reinstalled Nvidia driver: 302.07, installed GDM, purged &...

ok- sorry. i didnt look far enough.

aren't we allowed to respond to suggested workarounds? why was my response to post #9 removed?

@whatthefunk-doesn't work for me, tried watching flash movie on firefox, 1st time caused hard freeze, 2nd time caused logout. Back to nouveau.
desktop:Asus P7P55D-e mobo
I5-750 cpu
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Update: reinstalled 12.04, upon initial reboot defaulted immediately to guest acccount, booted to console, performed updates, rebooted, installed: gnome-session-fallback, gnome-shell,...

Possibly related to this?:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/964607

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@cyberwizzard-Your thread seems to be the closest I can find to mirror my problem. I posted this on 'Ask Ubuntu' without receiving any helpful...

I just installed 295.33 this afternoon-it's unuseable for me: Oneiric started random crashes when running Firefox, also strange graphics watching videos; eg. multiple images. I played around with...

Just want to say that after using Flash-Aid (Firefox add-on) to install the latest Flash beta version everything turned blue! After reading these posts I used Flash-Aid to to the latest Adobe Flash...

I tried this for 11.04_amd64 with this result:E: Unable to locate package libstlport4.6ldbl
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libstlport4.6ldbl'

Any suggestions?

I just found a deb for Gutenprint 5.2.7, installed it on Natty amd64 w/o errors! I just printed (on my Canon)my first document perfectly except for a faint 'foss' watermark. This is how I did it.
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I voted for Firefox only because of the vast selection of extensions. I haven't tried Chrome yet---I don't trust Google with my data; I consider 'street view' an abomination! I've been using Opera...

The latest update for Gutenprint (5.2.7) is now supporting several more Canon printers including the Pro9000. This is in the repos for Oneiric and works in a limited fashion. So far this doesn't seem...

Just want to mention that with 11.04_x64 my Canoscan 8800f just works without any issues. (Simple Scan) I then installed Xsane and it now works without any hacks necessary. I also went through all...

I would like to share my solution to the problem of installing restricted presets in Winff. After spending about 3 hours with this with no success (used steps 1, 2, 3), seems after adding...

Just want to let everybody know I finally found a fix-removed .sane directory @home-then reinstalled everything having to do with 'sane'/'xsane'. Xsane now works properly; however I still don't...

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I just tried 'gscan2pdf' It works fine except OCR function not very accurate. Anything else available for photo work except xsane?
Thank you
Update: increasing resolution from...

Scanlite works for me: Ubuntu 10.10_x64, I'm using a Canon 8800f and I'm giving up on Xsane for a while until some of these problems get fixed. Xsane has a lot more features but not much good if it...

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I filed a bug report #664912

Update-I'm having a real problem with Xsane; after trying to adjust the settings the program quit working. I've reinstalled everything having to do with scanning with no luck. Simple scan works fine....