I have been using 14.04 LTS for a long time with an older Nvidia GTX card and Viewsonic 1680x1050 monitor - no problems. Yesterday I upgraded to 16.06 LTS - no problems. Today I have swapped in an...
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I have been using 14.04 LTS for a long time with an older Nvidia GTX card and Viewsonic 1680x1050 monitor - no problems. Yesterday I upgraded to 16.06 LTS - no problems. Today I have swapped in an...
None of the configuration settings for blanking the screen or suspending after inactivity seem to have any effect.
After installing Light Locker I was able to blank the screen, finally, but I am...
With 13.10 running smoothly on my MB Pro with Intel video, I have no ability to use an external monitor or projector with the laptop because (I presume) the video driver does not know how to deal...
Setting up sane-utils (1.0.23-0ubuntu3) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
g++-4.7 libaccounts-qt1...
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com saucy InRelease
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com saucy-security InRelease
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com saucy InRelease
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com saucy-updates...
I could get the sources.list, but I could not run apt-get while the upgrade tool was running (lock file). I killed that (perhaps a mistake) but still can't run apt-get. And the desktop has gotten...
I have been performing distribution upgrades twice a year for the past 8 years with few issues, but this upgrade (-> 13.10) has failed in exactly the same way on all three machines that I have...
In a fit of absentmindedness I installed nvidia drivers (nvidia-current I think) on my MB Pro. I uninstalled immediately, but then upon rebooting I found that unity was gone (not working, that is). I...
This has suddenly started happening FREQUENTLY on my Ubuntu Netbook remix. The last time it happened I immediately looked and found this in my syslog:
Mar 4 17:43:22 eric-netbook kernel:...
Wow.. there it is. Nothing obvious about that! I would love to find a more direct route to it though. Thanks!
Just finished upgrading my Eeepc 1000HE and have noticed a certain sluggishness in the new UI (as others have also commented). But my big issue is that I can't for the life of me figure out how to...
Perfect! I've seen that so many times I don't even notice it any more!
I would like to give/sell an old PC with a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 on it. Is it possible to do this so that the recipient will be asked to create their account when the system first boots up?...
This afternoon I booted up the laptop with Hardy and when I launched Firefox I get this popup first:
Could not initialize the application's security component. The most likely cause is problems...
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I have a PC with optical audio output on the motherboard, and it used to work beautifully under Gutsy (great 5.1 sound on DVDs, etc.). One day I was messing with the sound configuration and the sound...