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I am running Ubuntu on an old Dell PC (600Mhz) and i also found default GNOME is too slow for me. so I first tried IceWM and it's a nice improvement, but it's just a bit too simplistic, then i added...

yeah, I'm running Ubuntu on an old Dell PC. I mainly use it to surf online and e-mail stuff. Updating might go way beyond its capability.:)

is suspend/sleep working properly in Lucid or...

hi guys

i'm trying to figure out how to put my ubuntu 7.04 to sleep

when i run
'su pmi action suspend'

i got following output:

:popcorn:

I have the same display problem.

i'm still using 7.04 on an ATI card

did they fix the problem on newer version?

I asked the question since i'm too afraid to mess up my existing windows partitions.

I intended to use this machine mainly as a file server instead of desktop since it stores most of my multimedia...

hi, guys

a little bit off topic here:
I'd like to setup a dual boot on my windows XP PC.
But I heard that Ubuntu is not very windows-friendly. In other words: It doesn't like to share hard...

I still have feisty fawn 7.04 running on an old Dell Pc with no problem at all.

as for the repository, ubuntu still have old repository files server available, so no problem there.

I have...

thanks for the replies, guys!

to clearify:
of the four partitions, only the 40GB C:/ is the primary partition. with windows xp installed onto this partition, the rest three are logical drives....

hi, guys

I have a windows xp machine that crashes a lot(blue screen of death) and i've tried many different methods ( swap out memory, updating video drive, installing new fans, reinstall windows)...

see my signature):P

same problem here - missing trash can on desktop.


and i did above. but the trash icon still doesn't show up on desktop. any ideas?

i have the exact same problem after upgrading to ver 3.6. can someone tell me where to find the icon? it's not in /usr/share/pixmaps/ folder

the video card i have is an ATI rage pro 128, and it's using the default video driver came with ubuntu. is it possible to take advantage of this ATI open driver to improve the performance?

a precise and concise step-by-step instruction! works wonder! it solved the sticky point that bothered me for so long on ubuntu:P

now i got all the IM working on my machine!

one question: I...

actually i've got iceWM as my windows manager. it's pretty fast and light. but i like to keep default GNOME desktop since it's easier to navigate around and configure stuff. i've been putting off...

thanks, guys

for the advice.

it's very helpful :popcorn:

i'm having the same problem as well. just installed latest firefox web browser but couldn't play any youtube clips. Went ahead and Downloaded the latest adobe flash plugins but got this error msg.
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I ‘ve been using ubuntu for the past couple years. It serves me well for the purpose of surfing online, checking e-mails, occasionally playing some games. I’m using Feisty Fawn 7.04.

However,...

i tried. still no success...

erdos@erdos-desktop:/usr/local/games/quake/darkplaces$ ./darkplaces-linux-x86_64-glx
bash: ./darkplaces-linux-x86_64-glx: cannot execute binary file

same for...

I've followed the instructions to install darkplaces quake 1 engine on my old dell pc. installation was just fine. when i tried to
launch it by using './darkplaces-linux-686-glx'. game first gets...

hi, Pinejoker

i had the same problem as described in this post. i'm using 7.04.

you need to copy the following line into /etc/apt/sources.list file:

code:

deb...