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This is a PC running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Been working fine for a long time. It is on a Windows network.

In Thunar / Nautilus the browse network would show this m/c (nick-4) and whatever other...

I am trying to copy some large files on a 14.04 system to a USB drive. The source partition is ext4, the destination is NTFS (formatted on a Windows system, lots of spare space - around 160GB, no...

Thanks, yes, I know. I just made the mistake of assuming that all those open source drivers came under the overall label of Nouveau, which, as you pointed out, they don't.

However, that doesn't...

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 04b3...

I think it depends what you are looking for. Pretty much everything he said is valid in concept, and it really summarises why Linux could never have knocked Windows out of the mainstream desktop...

Running 14.04.4 LTS with 1600x1200 Eizo monitor connected by VGA input (all it has). ATI Radeon HD5450 graphics card, Nouveau driver.

I am trying to create a base xorg.conf that I can then modify,...

I am, and I'm aware of properties like 'underscan', 'underscan hborder' and 'underscan vborder' which I'm having an equal lack of success with, but it is more a general question about how to get...

I am trying to work out how to use xrandr transform (14.04.4, ATI Radeon HD5450 graphics, open source driver). I have found the following:

... in other words, the device coordinates (x' y') of the...

Solved, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2312665.

This proved to be down to the motherboard - ASRock AliveNF6P VSTA. Could not get it to come back from soft powerdown (S5). The way to do it was to use suspend to RAM as detailed in...

Using 14.04. Motherboard has integrated ATI HD3200 graphics and the Open Source driver is installed. The screen in a Sony TV that overscans on HDMI (only available connection) and there is no way of...

Solved it:

Replaced the command to run Kodi from the menu with a script which uses nvidia-settings to make a change on Kodi exit, which effectively rewrites the original X settings.

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I am running MythBuntu 14.04 and the system doesn't shutdown properly any longer.

This occurred following editing the script ... end script section in an Upstart conf file to do a search for a...

I am actually using MythBuntu 14.04, but this is a general, not specifically Myth TV, issue. M/c has nVidia display adapter.

The display (HDMI) is a Sony TV, which overscans, and being not the...

I have a MythBuntu 14.04 installation, but this is purely a Ubuntu issue.

One of the things I need to do is get ACPI wakeup on RTC to work, and I cannot. There is a conf file...

Copying certificates around doesn't work for me, I'm afraid. (sudo cp /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/* /usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts).

It's GeoTrust I have the problem with: 'You have...

I'm trying to do something similar that sort of worked - see this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1725675

I'm a complete beginner at this apart from messing with a Linux box 10 years ago as a software developer. Only installed ubuntu 10.10 a day and a half ago to see what I can do with it. Installed...

I suspect it's the geometry parameter. I've done pretty much the same thing and providing I leave -geometry out - defaults to 1024x768 - it works, put anything else in, and I get the same as you - no...