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You are a ROCKSTAR.

Thanks dude!

btw - was using the Nvidia340 package.

Right now getting X working again would be nice.

Ill purge and reboot, lets see it it works.

Yeh, im not too sure on which card it is, but from what I can tell, by booting back into windows, its a Geforce GT620M. There is a little Nvida Optimus sticker on it though. The Laptop is a Samsung...

On anther note, just ran upgrade from shell. (217mb) Maybe it sorts it out.

Hey guys

I upgraded from Wily and the upgrade completed fine.

I get offered 18 and 35 and in both instances I get a FAILED to start simple desptop manager and obviously I end up in shell. I was...

I see its a common error for X to die in some instances of the 16 upgrade.

Running it on a Samsung Ultrabook - Nvidia card.

Boots fine, but fails to load X and leaves me in Shell.


Any...

You rock man! Thank you!

Skype has been giving me issues over the last few days. But now its fixed!

Rolling back made all the difference!

I installed Ubuntu 904 through wubi a couple of months ago and everything is working sweet. Now, id like convert the whole setup to a local ext filesystem and keep my current ubuntu installion.
...

No helpers?

My wifi dongle or card gets picked up instantly with ubuntu but KDE seems to not want to work. I prefer the dual screen on KDE in comparison to Gnome.

Any ideas how I can solve this issue? Ive...

bump?!?

Having some difficulty running AWN on a Dual screen set-up with the 6600.
Running Nvidia driver 190.

If I run only one monitor, everything runs perfectly and pretty quick I might add. As soon as...

This looks like something i can use.

If compiz and all the other effects are turned off, it should run fine :)

Thanx for the link :)

Hey Guys, My old laptop's cdrom is buggered to a point where it reads but it wont read all of the data on a disk.

it has usb but i cant boot from usb from startup.

Is there a way that I can...

Im assuming you upgraded to 9.04.

Im so surprised with the upgrade too. Used to run 7.10 and this pc was a dog. now its actually hauling some serious ***.

Well chuffed with the latest release!

ill burn it to dvd from the start, thanx for the heads up :)

The master and the student!

Nicely done Dai Bando

I cant use Ubuntu as my primary OS, I use most of adobe's packages and well.. they dont exactly run under ubuntu. *wine is not my style*
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my biggest problem is the lack of usb booting and the faulty cdrom. it reads every now and then. the 100mb was really Godsent ..

If i could somehow upgrade the bios or install ubuntu via terminal...

I installed puppy, it even detected a wifi usb stick.. really impressed with the functionality, but from an overall package, it could have been better.

repro's out of the box arent available and...

Ive just downloaded puppy ... ill drop that on there and see how it goes... if at all :)

I just like ubuntu, as im not really much of a techie when it comes to troubleshooting and hardware in...

I have an old acer laptop.

850mhz, 256mb blah blah blah.


What distro of ubuntu would run easier on the machine without hogging too much of its little proccessing power.

I dont really want...

here you go...

Hi,

I'm running gutsy on an old box with the only wifi Networking being an Atheros usb stick.

I'm guessing its un-supported... am I right?

I really dont want to run windows on this Pc...

My current onboard soundcard does not like sharing applications when it comes to sound output.. I have no idea why.

For instance, if im on youtube with firefox, Xmms gives me an error. The same...