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Can you try and see if you can get your microphone and webcam working too? There are small icons on the top of the screen to enable them.

If your webcam works you should see yourself in...

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So, I need to get myself a new computer, the quite old desktop box is crumbling and I've started some university studies that require me to be able to use Adobe Connect.

Since I'm...

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I´m sharing an internet-connection with some neighbors and recently the ISP got us a new dsl-modem/router that only gives out 4 ip-adresses. That is obviously too few for our needs.

I also...

sorry to bump, but I don't see what else I can do.

If I don't find a solution where should I report the bug, ubuntu or xorg?

/tsr

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So after some human errors, etc I finally have upgraded to Intrepid. My current situation is that I don't get to a gnome-login screen (after ctrl-alt-F1 I get to the console login screen).
...

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I have a similar problem (that is, the symptoms are the same but it may originate from something else). Unfortunately I don't know how to look up specs, etc so if you tell me that first we can...

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So I started to upgrade to 8.10 this morning before going to work. When I left there was just a few minutes left of downloading packages.

When I get home the comp doesn't start gdm but...

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So I got these files a movie (with japanese audio) and a spanish audio track. The movie is in a .avi file and the soundtrack is in a .ac3 file.

How do I play the movie with the spanish...

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The easiest way is to customize one icon in the folder where I want to have customized icons, that will create the file...

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I'm preparing a desktop for my daughter (4years, not very experienced with comps). I want to customize the interface a bit.

For starters I would like to know how to (if possible at all):
-...

Great thanks, you are the wo/man!

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I have the reverse problem than many others, my sound works too good in 8.04.

I have somewhat defunkt dual boot (that means that I somehow screwed up my mac partition so I can't easily boot...

Not your fault, I did it at my own risk, dont worry about it.

I managed to make the efi-partition bootanle again so now at least I got that menu back. I'll look into the blessing thing later.
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Ookeeey...

I tried the steps (including reverting :)) but the only thing I've accomplished so far is that I can't boot up Tiger. Grub is loaded and starts Ubuntu (after a lot of waiting, but...

Ok, now it works, sort of.

I've got 4 main choices now:
1. Tux - tries to load something from lilo but fails by not finding anythin
2. Apple - loads my Tiger
3. Tux - loads Ubuntu from HD (but...

Great, how do I do that.

/tsr - feeling n00by

Ok, thanks for giving me a hand, here are the results:



sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted....

Well according to the partition tool nothing needs syncing...

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Ok, maybe it is that bug, can you tell me more about it?

I'm willing to try anything :)

Is there any way to do it all from the beginning without losing my MacOS X install?

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When I first got my iMac (5.1 17" screen) I tried to follow the instructions to install ubu6.04 and failed.

Now, since my real comp a generic laptop has died I'm trying again.

I've...

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I got a similar problem, but the proposed solution doesn't work for me.

If I reboot the screen uses a narrower resolution and leaves a black unused area to the right (I assume it's the...

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I'm thinking about creating a simple editor for creating UMC (user made content) for the excellent game Battle for Wesnoth (BfW).

BfW uses a mark-up language called WML (wesnoth markup...