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    Sticky: Re: Desktop Hardware Incompatibility List.

    Asus P4/PE HDD runs the Live CD of Lucid fine but full install fails as the HDD are not recognized and therefore no partition can be created. (SATA disk). The very same h/w runs Karmic with no...
  2. [ubuntu] Re: Thinking of upgrading to Lucid? How old is your hardware?

    Except I can state absolutely unequivocally that the LiveCD version worked perfectly on my desktop but Lucid failed during install - it could not see the HDD which seems a common fault with Lucid...
  3. [ubuntu] Thinking of upgrading to Lucid? How old is your hardware?

    I've recently tried to upgrade from Karmic to Lucid and it went disastrously wrong - I am now happliy back with Karmic. Thinking about this, I tried to upgrade a laptop some while back and that too...
  4. [gnome] Re: I get empty panels, three-quarters of the screen width

    Thanks for the reply but I am beginning to suspect there are more profound problems with Lucid. Printing had stopped working as well as a few other odd things.

    I tried a fresh install of Lucid but...
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    [ubuntu] Re: On install, no partitions are visible

    This link is broken!

    In frustration, I have now installed Debian Lenny - absolutely no problems. Lenny sees the HDD fine.

    Thinking about it, I have anecdotal evidence that Lucid does not like...
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    [ubuntu] On install, no partitions are visible

    I have a machine (Asus P4PE + 120GB SATA HDD) which has been running Karmic very successfully for a long time. I recently made the decision to upgrade to Lucid via the Update Manager. The upgrade...
  7. [gnome] Re: I get empty panels, three-quarters of the screen width

    I have tried both forms of gconf-2 (shutdown and --recursive-unset). Everything appears OK in the session but after log off and login again, the top panel now has the menus and two of the apps at the...
  8. [gnome] I get empty panels, three-quarters of the screen width

    I have just updated to Lucid but after the upgrade the Gnome Panels display as empty (no menus, apps, etc.) and extend from the LHS of the screen to around three-quarters of the screen. This happen...
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    [ubuntu] Can't see Amazon's Look Inside

    I am not able to access Amazon's Look Inside - the facility to inspect a few pages of books. (I have never been able to do this.) I have tried both at work (via a direct connection to a high-speed...
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    Re: Bakoma TeX editor

    amylase - how exactly did you install bakoma in Wine? I have tried running the Bakoma quicksetup.exe installer in Wine from a terminal and I get the Bakoma install screen, a few flashing progress...
  11. [ubuntu] Re: How can I do an inverse search between okular and kile?

    I have done all this and I still cannot get either forward or inverse search to work! I have a 2-button wheel mouse so the Kile manual's instruction to press the middle mouse button does not help......
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    [SOLVED] Re: Ubuntu 9.10 caught in login loop

    I had a slightly weirder problem: I had three accounts set up, let's say A, B and C; A was super-user. I could login and out as many times as I liked as A but when I tried to login as B or C I...
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