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I meant, what are the consequences of NOT UPGRADING (Not NOT BACKING UP DATA).

I have read the whole thread and do not think I saw an answer to the basic question: Should I click "Install" or not?

'backup your files/disc image first' does not fill me with confidence. And...

Euroman's solution worked for me (reply #2)... deleted the two .hidden folders and re-installed dropbox. Before I did that, I unlinked my laptop via the Dropbox site per Bapoumba's suggestion (reply...

I am having a similar issue. (12.04) For a week or so now, every time I turn on my laptop, I am prompted to install dropbox. I click OK, it does it's thing, but never quite seems to 'stick'. My...

OK, I am discovering some nuance here...

Clicking on the right side of the touchpad will produce a left-click.

But if I tap the bottom right edge of the touchpad with just the right spot, speed...

nope, touchpad works fine in Windows, just not working in Ubuntu.
-Brian

After searching, I don't readily see an answer...

Just very recently bought a new Levono ideapad and installed 12.04.

I noticed that the touchpad's right-click is not working (acts like...

OK, I "solved" the problem. While I was in the BIOS, I noticed that the clock was set to the wrong time and the year 2048! After I fixed that, everything more or less booted up normally.

I am...

HELP PLEASE

I went and followed the instructions at this site:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend

after "simulating" the suspend, the laptop display failed to wake (like I knew...

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 on an older Dell laptop c610 with an ATI radeon M6 LY video driver.

Everything works fine, but the display will never resume after suspend/hibernate/lid close.

I feel...

UPDATE:

Well, issue "solved"...


here is what happened. The parts machine came in. That laptop was totally stripped and wouldn't boot at all. Got it off of Ebay for 15 bucks. BUT it did have...

UPDATE II:

the battery is definitely not charging. Power manager claims it is, but the battery life never goes up. I had it plugged in all night.

the keyboard & mouse "stutter" problem is only...

UPDATE: slight progress...

I successfully plugged the new battery into the "alternate" battery dock. (hidden behind the cd-rom tray...I was unaware this existed.)

laptop will now run off of...

Hello everyone.

I don't know if this is a Ubuntu issue or a hardware issue.

Dell Lattitude c610 (getting a little old now) running Ubuntu 9.04

If turned on with AC power (battery not...

Solved it.

ctrl-alt-f1

(here my screen goes blank. Let me explain: I am using a laptop with a non-functioning screen. I use an external monitor. When I go to ctrl-alt-f1, the external monitor...

Is there a way to kill tsclient from a terminal window?

sometimes tsclient freezes up on me when I am on the remote PC in full screen mode, and the only way I can do anything is to ctrl-alt-f8 to...

Well, I "solved" it by rescuing my files and re-installing the OS.

Oh well. Could have been worse.

PLEASE ANYBODY?

I was very happy with my Ubuntu Jaunty. If at all possible I want to perfom a fix using the Live CD and get it back to normal.

When I try to boot without the CD, it *seems*...

I was follwing advice I found online, which said:
1. Boot Live CD
2. Mount the laptop's hard drive
3. Open terminal
4. type:

sudo chroot /media/disk

(this is the location of my hard disk...

Sef, thank you for helping.

#1. I'm at work right now, and not at my Ubuntu machine, so I will get you that info later. Is there a terminal command that I can run that will list that information...

I had this in the "Hardware & Laptops" category because I thought I had a display problem. Can't boot normally all of a sudden, only black screen.

However, I CAN boot from Live CD...

here is...

here is some of my flailing about trying to fix this situation:
this is me booting liveCD than mounting my hard drive, and switching to it's root. trying to get apt-get to upgrade/clean/update etc,...

Can anyone please help with this?

I need to somehow recover my PC using the Live CD !!!

I don't know if it was a faulty update, or apt-get gone wrong, or what caused all this, but I can't boot...

23dornot23d,

I am having a similar problem:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1407927

Boots fine from Live CD, but black screen only on regular boot. No Ubuntu startup noise, just...

I hope you find some answers, Uuranor, because I am having a very similar problem:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1407927

-brian