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  1. cant fix broken install (google earth)

    ive been trying to chase down information for a bit now about some issue that is not letting me install an nvidia graphics driver

    amdgpu-core can not be installed

    i believe due to some issue...
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    Re: San Andreas crashing in Wine

    i tried these things and it didnt work. anyone, what are some winetricks installs or settings that might help it work? i have the same problem as the OP. it freezes or crashes after the NVIDIA logo
  3. Radeon 4850, open source driver or catalyst legacy?

    Please help me on this. This is my second radeon graphics card I've had to deal with in Ubuntu. I eventually got the first one on a laptop to kind of work for some games, but after a ton of purple...
  4. [ubuntu] Re: laptop display doesn't work 19 out of 20 times

    nope, looked at it carefully from different angles and nothing at all is visible. i guess i am curious if there is a way i can easily troubleshoot this? i have no problem taking apart a desktop PC,...
  5. [ubuntu] laptop display doesn't work 19 out of 20 times

    I know there can be many reasons for this, but currently my Toshiba satellite laptop is not showing the display. It's been running ubuntu in various versions for 2 years now. The last install I had...
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    Sticky: [other] Re: Laptop INCOMPATABILITY List.

    1. ubuntu 11.10
    2. toshiba
    3. Satellite L655D
    4. the touchpad never worked and haven't been able to get it to. the radeon 4200 graphics card is a serious problem, at its best its okay, at worst i...
  7. [ubuntu] Re: Open Xorg driver for ATI graphics does not turn on light on resume

    i know what you mean, i also have an extremely annoying ati card. i used to have that problem a lot with 11.04 and 10.10 as i remember. sorry can't give much advice, but im in a different pickle...
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    Re: gaming overheats my computer

    thanks for the advice, i checked inside and will clean it out, i think i finally found the problem though.

    i had installed the newest ATI driver, which apparently doesn't work well with this older...
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    Re: gaming overheats my computer

    i should have mentioned, i tried installing 12.04 and got a black screen, apparently also related to my stupid radeon card.

    unfortunately i didn't buy this laptop (years ago) with linux...
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    gaming overheats my computer

    hi, so ive tried to figure this out on my own. i had a decent enough gaming setup up until a month ago. it was ubuntu 11.10 on my toshiba satellite laptop which has a radeon 4200 HD card. it was good...
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    Re: ADVAPI32.dll problem?

    sorry, still not working... :(

    so im running ubuntu 11.10 and wine 1.5.2, i've tried setting it to win 7, XP and 2008. the output in terminal that I get for 2008 is below.

    Other games on steam...
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    Re: ADVAPI32.dll problem?

    hmm, thanks. i tried updating to 1.5.2 but it still doesnt load. now it says


    fixme:advapieregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub
    wine: Call from 0x7bc49f80 to unimplemented function...
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    ADVAPI32.dll problem?

    Hi, I have been playing steam games just fine for months now. one of my favourites, empires mod, did a version update and i can no longer play it. in terminal it says

    ...
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    Re: Black Screen after recovery mode GRUB

    thans both of you. oldfred, sorry i didn't get to try the method you recommended so i'm not sure if it would work or not...

    i was looking for the possibility of a system repair and the upgrade...
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    Re: Black Screen after recovery mode GRUB

    Thanks for the advice, I tried it and it didn't work. Yes, I really ought to avoid hard resets, a bad habit of mine...

    How can I diagnose the problem? I am not too skilled at ubuntu, but can...
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    Re: Black Screen after recovery mode GRUB

    here is the boot-repair output, it says successfully repaired but it is still a black screen with no command line or anything

    http://paste.ubuntu.com/1413058/
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    Black Screen after recovery mode GRUB

    Please help.. I've been using ubuntu 11.10 for a year or more now and have never had a problem this bad. I have tried all day to follow instructions on line but to no avail.

    I had a game freeze in...
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