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Thanks This seems to be a pretty quiet forum.

From reading, it looks like the best option may be to install the Nvidia driver as opposed to the Nouveau. If I do that and it hangs the system,...

anyone?

I have a clean install of Lubuntu 15-10. I would like to use both video cards across 3 monitors. (2 on one, 1 on the other). It identifies both cards (see below), but seems to only be accessing a...

Yes, that is what the error message above is from. thoughts?

strange twist from what I have been used to. Thanks, finally got it.

Hope you have a great new year.

OK, another twist. I have a partition that was set up as a hand-off area from the old data...

Thanks. So I open the VMM but it is empty. How do I direct it to look at the file?
Located at /local/VirtualBox/VirtualBox VMs/

Taking another chance, I was able to copy the old files into...

As a little more information, my intent was to have two users for safety. I have the installation user set up as admin. Then I have a second user profile I set as a desktop user only (there are...

Thanks. I was not trying to mix the passwords, but just showing that I tried both, but neither worked. So just focusing on this user, "dad". It's still not working. Thoughts?


dad@office:~$...

Thanks for the help. One old tool that I used to use was to via Tools "Open Current Folder in Terminal", and then to use sudo to provide access. When I try that I get the following errors. It is...

I have a fresh installation of Lubuntu 15-10. I have installed VirtualBox. I am trying to access a previous version of a VB hard disk file saved to a saved drive. The error seems to be...

Thanks Bucky. Good to know. I'm definitely new to the Ubuntu world and eager to learn.

BTW - the Lubuntu solution worked. I no longer have the mouse freeze issue.

I have a few other...

A bit more background. I have been around Linux for a bit (since OS2 Warp). No expert, but familiar. I have been using SuSE since the late 90's. It used to be super solid. The latest versions...

Thanks. I agree running as root and messing with permissions is not a good thing. I have installed VirtualBox. The previous folder with the image file in it has read only privileges. I need to...

I am new to Ubuntu. Is there a file manager that I can get into root privileges? The primary reason is to manage folder privileges on my system.

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Here is what it showed. By the way. It is a pretty constant frustration. Thanks for the help.





those smilies should be "=none : owns=" without the spaces.

Additional note, when it...

Installed it last night, and allowed it to update as the first step after install, so yes.

Graphic? Video cards? Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 & GeForce GT 200

4 g ram

Happy New Year!

I have a clean new install of Xubuntu vivid. The mouse cursor randomly "sticks", freezes and disappears over open app panes. Specifically over buttons or input sections. Are...