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OK, so I got VNC to work per this HowTo.

It's almost perfect, except for the following errors:

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I fixed it.

All I did was replace the line:

server_args = -inetd :1 -query localhost -geometry 1920x1080 -depth 24 -once -DisconnectClients=0 -NeverShared passwordFile=/root/.vncpasswd

With:...

Hmmm... this almost works. By "almost" I mean the remote desktop appears briefly, then causes my vnc client (RealVNC 4.1) to close immediately.

Any idea what could be the reason and how to fix...

@foxmajik I agree that vino is useless if one can't assume that the user is already logged into his Gnome desktop. This is indeed my case and after making vino work, I am going to disable it and...

Bingo! That was my problem. I (mis)interpreted "Only allow local connections" as LAN connections, not as local loop. I now see the balloon tip that says "local connections" means local loop.
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That's exactly the answer I wanted to hear.

I knew there must be a good reason for providing the GUI-based setup as part of the core Ubuntu install, but for some reason, I am receiving the...

This question pertains to Ubuntu 8.04 but it was true for Ubuntu 6.06 (and perhaps relevant to Ubuntu 10 as well).

I am trying to set my desktop to be accessed remotely via LAN.

Instead of...

Answer:

PCI0 S5 disabled no-bus:pci0000:00
PEX0 S5 disabled pci:0000:00:1c.0
PEX1 S5 disabled
PEX2 S5 disabled
PEX3 S5 disabled
PEX4 ...

Are you sure about that?

I am able to to wake up the computer from off by simply hitting Ctrl+F1 on the keyboard, so I know that the motherboard's circuits are "listening" even when the computer...

I am neither suspending nor hibernating. I am turning the PC off, using either the 'Shut Down' button in Ubuntu or the following shell command:

sudo shutdown -h -P now
Any idea how to leave the...

It's built into the motherboard (ABIT IP35 Pro (LGA 775), BIOS ver. 17, latest version!)


I've been using two methods:

MC-WOL from a remote Windows XP laptop.
DD-WRT router (Linksys...

It turns out that the green LED on the NIC is OFF when the computer is off.

Which means this isn't really a Linux problem but more likely a motherboard or BIOS problem.

Do you know of a good...

I followed the instructions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=360901 to be able to turn on my Ubuntu 8.04 workstation remotely.

But I can't seem to make this work.

I know that my...

Ouch... I was hoping to get away with much less than compiling, building and installing several packages.

Is there a simple, tiny downloadable .exe for Windows XP that is equivalent to Ubuntu's...

I found a nice tutorial on "how to power on remotely with WakeOnLan (WOL)"

Problem is... it's for a Linux-to-Linux setup.

I need to be able to achieve exactly the same but turn on Ubuntu 8.04...

I don't have any 'nvidia-settings' file on my system, but I do have 'nvidia-xconfig' and I just happened to solve the problem myself. Here is how:


sudo -i
nvidia-xconfig

Unfortunately, this...

Yes, I tried forcing it using xrandr. It did nothing.

Any idea how to proceed?

Yes, I have been using proprietary NVIDIA accelerated graphic driver (instead of the Ubuntu open source ones) for over 2 years now.

I found the following article:
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Of course I am using analog VGA. :)

Any idea how I go from here?

I finally decided to replace my monitor. I got a HANNspree HF225 with a native resolution of 1920x1080.

Alas, my Ubuntu 8.04 only allows me to select the 1400x1050 (50Hz) as the highest...

I just noticed that there is a Google Chrome version for Ubuntu (8.04 and up).

Google Chrome is FAST but... the only reason I moved to Ubuntu (from Windows) is because I got sick of large...

Hmmm... Alt + Ctrl + F7 will actually restore it to where it was (Gnome desktop). It doesn't really perform a reset, it only looks that way.

So, perhaps Ubuntu 8.04 is for curious people, after...

I was working on something, then got curious to see whether the keyboard shortcut Alt+Ctrl+F10 is assigned to anything, so I pressed it and... KABOOM! TOTAL SYSTEM RESET. I of course lost unsaved...

One of the reasons I switched to Ubuntu was to avoid all the malware that plague the various Windows platforms.

I was shocked when, while being on a certain web page (using latest Firefox on...

OK - got it. Here is the undocumented secret:

No need to re-enable it, nor install anything else to be able to access the old VNC servers out there.

Instead, there is a default Remote Desktop...