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    [SOLVED] Re: lubuntu missing desktop after upgrade to 12.10

    Thanks... i'm going to hold off, though... wanna poke around a little more.

    How do you know that lxsession is segfaulting?



    Thanks... i had tried locate but had to use a brute-force find to...
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    [SOLVED] Re: lubuntu missing desktop after upgrade to 12.10

    Indeed you are not. :-)

    I will try the lxde install -- what are the ramifications of that? Just an issue of losing some config values? Any implications for future upgrade path?

    I'm on an Asus...
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    [kubuntu] Re: working Firefox mp4 plugin?

    Brilliant, thanks for the reply. The gecko mediaplayer plugin did the trick. I can see 720p again on my computer. :-) Must have missed/ignored the suggestion when I was reading up on the add-on.
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    [kubuntu] working Firefox mp4 plugin?

    Hi - Firefox 4.0.1 on 11.04, radeon driver for an older ATI card in a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop... I'm fed up with slow flash on linux and was exploring the FlashVideoReplacer plugin.
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    [ubuntu] the swamp of wireless security acronyms

    Hi - i'm threading through the byzantine array of wireless security acronyms, trying to understand some of the basics. Please shun me if this is an inappropriate place to ask about this.

    It's seem...
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    [ubuntu] Re: DV Firewire camera as v4l webcam...

    Hi - Thanks for the idea... maybe you're just suggesting it as a general debugging tool? Unless i misunderstand, wxcam works off of v4l devices, e.g. /dev/video0, but i'm stuck at the stage of...
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    [ubuntu] DV Firewire camera as v4l webcam...

    Hi -

    Trying to get my cheap DV firewire camcorder to work as a webcam on skype (version 2.1.0.81). Running kubuntu 10.04 on a Dell laptop (Inspiron 6000).

    I may be behind the times and there is...
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    [ubuntu] Re: ati support in 9.04

    Dell Inspiron 6000 with ATI Mobility Radeon X300... predictably, it works but using reg'lar drivers. Occasionally glitchy graphics but functional. Haven't bothered trying fglrx given threads like...
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    Re: HOWTO: Set your system up for Wake On LAN (WOL)

    I started this related thread of problems I'm having... prob. should have just put it here...

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6601275&posted=1#post6601275
  10. [ubuntu] Re: Wake on LAN/hibernation/ACPI quandry... works in WinXP, not Linux?

    Incidentally, I've tried removing "-i" from the /etc/init.d/halt command, I've tried "rmmod -f 3c59x" and "update-initramfs -u" before shutdown, I've done "hibernate" and "shutdown -h now", tried the...
  11. [ubuntu] Wake on LAN/hibernation/ACPI quandry... works in WinXP, not Linux?

    Hi there -

    using Ubuntu 8.04 server...

    We are using a 3Com 3c905B-TXMBA card with a wake-on-LAN cable connected to our mobo.

    Trouble is, ethtool doesn't show anything for the wake-on-LAN...
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    [ubuntu] [solved] Re: Where to find 3c59x source code?

    Aha:

    sudo apt-get install linux-source
    sudo apt-get install bzip2
    bzip2 -d [bz2 filename]
    tar -tf linux-source-[etc] | grep 3c59x

    shows:

    linux-source-2.6.27/drivers/net/3c59x.c
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    [ubuntu] Where to find 3c59x source code?

    Hi there, looking to do a hack similar to that discussed in:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318586

    ...but I'm new to this and don't know where to get 3c59x.c... It's not in /usr/src......
  14. [ubuntu] Re: no luck switching NIC's, have I tried everything?

    Aha. This was the issue:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=955990&highlight=replace+nic

    The (auto-generated) file:
    /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
    caused the server to remember...
  15. [ubuntu] Re: no luck switching NIC's, have I tried everything?

    Yeah, that was my impression too, and why i suspect something else may be afoot...

    I've tried basically all the stuff I described above (except the 8139-related module of course) with both cards....
  16. [ubuntu] no luck switching NIC's, have I tried everything?

    Hi -

    We have 8.04 server installed on an old machine.

    Network card it had in it works fine, but it doesn't support wake-on-LAN, which is what we need.

    We've tried two other net cards,...
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