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Thank you bogan. Now I received a precise instruction. I was going thrugh "System Settins/Keyboard", and, obviously could not find the option. Now things are back to normal.
I just can't imagine how...

How can I stop the arrow keys in the keypad moving the mouse pointer? I just can't find, in 12.04 (precise), any option in the keyboard configuration, about this problem. The only key in the keypad...

I believe that your problem is that you do not have a CD drive on your netbook. Try then any of the alternatives presented here:
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I'm not used to VMware, I use VBox, but I would suggest you to check the configuration of your virtual machine. If possible, select a standard VGA display driver to start with. It should solve your...

Finaly! I've wiped out nvidia from my system


~ sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*

I had to clean up some directories by hand and repeat the "remove". Then I installed a fresh new driver...

Ok Bab1, that's just how I'm working now. I need network-manager because sometimes I have to switch to other networks (contingency or testing purposes).
Anyway, I feel confortable now. Thank you.

Hello Critin,

I did that but I'm using "nvidia-current", which doesn'say much. I've tried other drivers available to synaptic, compatibles with my GEFORCE 8400 GS, without success. I really don't...

This is my case. I am going to remove resolvconf. I like to have full control over my network :)
But I believe that when using DHCP this same protocol cares for configuring everything, including DNS...

Sorry, I thought that the concatenation of my first and second posts in this thread were obvious. What I meant in the second is that all that I was complainning in the first post disapeared when in...

Well, for your knowledge, I have tried to login into the option "Ubuntu 2D" and all came back into control, terminal shows up, and everything else. All that is missing is the "3D decorations". Is it...

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 for a month or so. Probabbly due to the last system update, I am having the following problems:

1. I have lost control over all apps windows. I had configured them to show...

Thank you for your information steel driver. As my desktop is not part of any VPN, just a simple member of a home network with access to the Internet through an ADSL router, can we do things the old...

After upgrading my desktop to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin I observed that, though I have configured my network connection (cable Ethernet) including a primary DNS server address, which hapens to be...

I have a Dell Vostro 1510 which I upgraded recently with Ubuntu 12.04. Since then, WiFi connections are only enabled if I boot the machine with the hardware switch in the "on" position. If I boot...

Thank you. It did helped and solved my problem.

Ok, thank you all. I understand.

Thank you, dino99, but I've tried all your sugestions without success. What didi worked was to force gdm to be the default display manager with


sudo apt-get install gdm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure...

I have upgraded my desktop system online from 10.04 to 12.04, after having so upgraded my notebook with success. It seemded to have gone all well but, after restarting the system, I could not have...

I just can't understand why I have no rights to edit my own data in the Foruns Control Panel, which is outdated.
Can anyone explain me the problem?
Thanks,

Joel Guilherme

After upgrading from 10.04 to 12-04 my touchpad in a Dell Vostro 1510 has become totally dead.
Anyone knows what can I do to restore its functionality?
TIA

Joel

Hi CharlesA, it's just a standard sudoers definition file:


# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a...

The output is

uid=1000(joelgs) gid=1000(joelgs) grupos=121(admin),1000(joelgs)

I was just finishing some work inside a W2K VBox machine (yes, I still need "that thing" for some tasks :) ). I...

A few minutes ago I accepted a suggestion from update-manager for restarting my system, such that some security updates could be effective. After restarting and login in as usual, I discovered that I...

Nice initiative yota! As I switched from 9.04 straight to 10.04, without trying Ubuntu 9.10, only now I was suprised is this fact. Waht is even more surprising is that I couldn't find an official...

Hello nanotube,

Thanks for the information but, it is really weird that Ubuntuzilla, itself, offers both options - 32 and 64 bits.
Thanks anyway. I'll stick to the official version, till...