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I solved this problem from switching the nvidia driver.

As per the prior output, I had been using the open-source Nouveau driver, but I switched to the nvidia-304 (proprietary, tested) option in...

Here's the output of 'sudo lshw -c video'


*-display description: VGA compatible controller
product: C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
...

I upgraded to 13.04 by running this command from xterm:


sudo do-release-upgrade

The upgrade didn't report any problems, and after rebooting, the greeter came up normally.

After logging in,...

I posted this yesterday in General Help, but since it didn't get many views, and is really more of a hardware issue, I'm reposting it here.

I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 tv capture card which...

I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 tv capture card which I've used for over a year in an AMD64 machine running both 11.04 then 11.10 without any problems.

Recently, I moved that card to another...

Thanks, this worked!

More specifically, I added the ubuntu-audio-dev/alsa-daily ppa and did sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade.

I also added this line to the...

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it.

I was also thinking of a different strategy: is there a simple way to use the alsa from the debian live dvd and apply it to my ubunutu installation?

The...

After discovering this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1728441 and then this article on Intel HDA Audio https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto I expected to be able to...

Just out of curiosity, I went and installed the latest debian (v. 6.0.4) on the same machine, to see what would happen.

It turns out that all the sound functions, including the built-in speakers...

So I did some more searching for laptop built-in microphone problems, and I came upon this recent post http://bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/202-ubuntu-acer-ao722 about an Acer laptop.

He was running...

I have a new Lenovo G575 laptop with an AMD Fusion E-300 cpu.

I installed the 11.10 AMD desktop version using the CD iso with no problems, and the built-in sound card played audio immediately.
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Yes, I did have rt2500usb loaded in addition to rt73usb, and blacklisting it solved the problem.

I also found that I do not need the entries in /etc/rc.local -- the extra lines in...

I'm running the latest version of mythbuntu (11.04) with an Edimax USB network adapter (model EW-7318USg, RT73 chipset).

Since this is a DVR, I don't have my keyboard plugged in at all times, and...

Interesting, I didn't realize there was a difference in IDE cables.

The original cable was a type 80, and the one I replaced it with is a type 40.

So that explains the jumpers.

But what I...

Fred, many thanks for your reply & suggestions.

Actually, this turned out to be a hardware problem.

The jumper on my IDE drive was set to "Cable Select".

That drive shared an IDE cable with...

I noticed that the installer reported my single hard drive as "SCSI /dev/sda" when in fact it's an IDE drive.

Apparently this is normal...

I'm trying to use 10.10 on an old hand-me-down HP desktop. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (rev. E6), and the motherboard bios is Phoenix Award Workstation (v. 1.18).

Installing 10.10 from the...