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Hello hans12345,

Would I be able to ask you what utility in I assume Windows you used to copy the Ubuntu files onto the flash drive. I only am asking this as I own a PC with a UEFI BIOS (Gigabyte...

Hello maxiplod!

What's probably happened when you installed 14.04 LTS was that GRUB became corrupted during the install of 14.04, but this can be fixed fortunately. There is a LiveCD that you can...

Hi there,

Yes, you should just be able to install hplip and simplescan, and plug in the printer then add the printer using the 'Printers' applet in System Settings. Then it should work! :D
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Hi there,

Please could you open a terminal and post the output of the following commands:

lsmod

lspci
This is to see what driver module you have installed, and this will help me fix your...

Hi there,

The best solution would be to check the disc that you installed Ubuntu from for errors. Boot the system from the LiveCD, then when the purple screen with the person and the keyboard...

Hello again,


Have you looked in the bios? You might have a setting in there that enables the multiple cores. Also, and what is the make and model of your PC?

Hi there,

Please can you do the following while your PC is booting:
1. Hold down the right SHIFT key to diaplay the GRUB menu.
2. Then press E while the 'Ubuntu' entry is highlighted.

If you...

Hi there,

Tbe following tutorial helped me when i installed the nvidia drivers on my laptop:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-quetzal-nvidia.html


Hope this helps
Jackyboy633

Hello,

Can you send me the output of the following command:


lsusb

Thanks,
Jackyboy633

Hello again.

Probably the easiest way to launch Minecraft is to do it in the terminal then. What you need to do is browse to the folder where your minecraft.jar file is located in the terminal,...

Hi there,

Can you perform the following command for me? It sounds like you don't have Java on your system.

sudo apt-get install default-jre

Once that package is installed, it should work by...

Hi there,

I think the best way to increase the font size is to use gnome-tweak-tool (which should be in the repos), and then in the program, click on the 'Fonts' group, then change the text...

Hi,

Unfortunately, I don't own this model of dongle, so I cannot help you get it working in Ubuntu. If you've tried most things, TBH there may be only a very small chance of getting it working....

VortexBox (Fedora based) is a great distro for a Squeezebox/Sonos/SMB/DLNA music server. I have used it myself on a old Eee PC and it works really well.
TinyCore is also another great distro that is...

Hi,

When you are in the middle of a call, on the latest version of Skype (4.0), there should be a cross shaped icon. Click on it, then on Share Screens. This should allow the other user to see...

Darkod beat me to it! Here is my view, though

The choice of 32 or 64 bit depends on what you are doing with your computer. Here are the pros and cons of each:

32-bit
Pros

Has better...

Hi,

I think the location for Firefox on the system is "/usr/bin/firefox" (without the quotes). This is the case for most Linux distros.

Hope this helps,
Jackyboy633 :)

Here is a link to the wallpaper: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/3024/silent_night.html

Here is my Fedora XFCE desktop on my Samsung laptop. It's pretty standard, but I have changed the theme to Zukitwo and the icons to Faenza. It definately looks better than the standard boring...

What is the make and model of your laptop. This will enable us to solve your question better.

Kind regards,
Jackyboy633

Hi there,
This is only a suggestion, but have you checked in the BIOS to see if the wireless is enabled. I used to have an Eee PC that did this to enable/disable wireless.

Hope this helps :-)...

Please could you show me the output of this command:

lspci | grep Network
Could you also tell me the model of Samsung laptop you have?
This will help me diagnose the problem for you. :)
...

Hi there,

I don't have a laptop with this wireless module. However, I have googled your problem, and found that you will have to change a driver parameter with these two terminal commands:

sudo...

Solved, I just tweaked some settings in gconf-editor

Hi all,

I have an issue with the window decoration in Ubuntu 12.04. What has happened is that the font of the window decoration and Unity app name thingy (that you rollover to get to the menu) has...