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There is a cool app called Nutty that should show you this in a GUI list.

If you are resizing a large partition this could take a while yes much longer than an hour is possible

world of padman, nexuiz

sensors provides power usage I think. Search for lm-sensors using Synaptic or enter in terminal


sudo apt-get install lm-sensors

Yes just enter the command as you did in terminal and it should be fine

Try and see if its set to run in system > administration > services

If you can then you could plug the windows drive into a spare slot in your Ubuntu machine and then boot Ubuntu and simply mount the windows drives using nautilus and copy the files over using drag...

Its not showing your password characters for security reasons if your using sudo, just tpype them out as normal and hit enter. Also you may just not have the correct codecs to launch the movies, try...

Check all the volumes up in alsamixer, run in terminal


alsamixer

Ubuntu or Xubuntu

Good stuff bud, I'm sure you will love 64-bit! nice systems btw :D

Did you create a new partition using the free space first

Glad it worked dont forget about ubuntu-restricted-extras its a great package that includes a lot of useful things. You can mark the thread solved now :D

oh sorry I must have misread with another thread. No you stick with 32-bit bud hehehe :D

If you want to launch the torrent using your terminal then you need to tell it to open the the torrent in Bit Tornado rather tahn just typing in the path to the torrent. So use the command to launch...

You need to just download the .rar unarchiver and it will allow you to extract using the default tool. Search for unrar using Synaptic or type this in terminal


sudo apt-get install unrar
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When you cahnged it to alsa did you check your volume was all up using alsamixer. Open a terminal and enter


alsamixer

I had bad Compiz animations using ATI drivers sounds similar to yours. To disable effects navigate to system > prefs >apperance > visual effects

If you just like to minimize the effects then open...

I'm not sure which you have installed now but you should try the 64-bit Adobe Flash plugin its much better than the one provided in the repos. Its available here...

Well I dont know if you just mistyped it here but the command was missing a /


gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lstIf this is GRUB2 included with Karmic then its a different file now.

Yes of course you can mount the CDROM in the VM configs. Also USB access is possible.

You can access the Internet fine just as normal, and can access files on the host OS by creating a shared...

Maybe you have incorrect permissions on a directory or specific files that wont play. Right click the file and select properties > permissions

Now make sure you have the correct permissions set...

Remove one of the cards while you get the drivers installed and configured. Then add the second card. Nice cards btw :D

Glad it all fixed now try and add the DVD back :D

It isnt Ubuntu's handling of dual screens thats the problem. Its your ATI card and them terrible drivers. Hope you get it fixed but just an FYI dual screens on nvidia in linux is much easier and...