Touchpad failure just struck my old Dell Latitude D600 and thanks to this post I was able to fix it in a jiffy.
I just went into the BIOS and disabled the touchpad, only leaving serial mouse...
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Touchpad failure just struck my old Dell Latitude D600 and thanks to this post I was able to fix it in a jiffy.
I just went into the BIOS and disabled the touchpad, only leaving serial mouse...
I am happily using Ubuntu 12.04 on my old Dell D600. Its using 2D Unity as a desktop.
I did a fresh 11.10 install then immediately did an upgrade to 12.04 without even doing the updates to 11.10....
You could be right, but too late I've already done the upgrade without doing the updates first. Glad to say that it all went without any problems and I now have 12.04 running perfectly so far. It...
I still have all my Laptops and they are all Dell, thats four in total from a 486 that even has a CD drive and PCMCIA through to my 2 year old Inspiron 1750. The only failure I ever had was a disk...
Well that's good to know, thanks irv. I've backed up all my files so I can give it a spin tomorrow. Looks like there is life in me ol Dell yet!
I have hit this same snag on my trusty old Dell D600. It works fine on 11.10 when booted from a USB stick, so I favour installing 11.10 then doing an upgrade to 12.04.
My question is, will future...
When Natty released, the then current Bitcoin client GUI didn't work in Unity. It did work if you were using the classic desktop though.
This was quickly fixed by the Bitcoin developers and the...
There is a problem with bitcoin in Natty in that the GUI doesn't work in Unity. Bitcoin does run but thats not much use if you can't see it.
There is a bug report you can add your name to and a...
I think Bitcoin has great potential and I would like to see it become a regular form of trading currency. Its still in Beta and if your a fan of Open Source projects then why not give it a test run?...
I used to have this problem using 10.04. I have used 10.10 regularly for many weeks now and have not seen the screen flash again since doing this fresh install.
Regretably, like me, you may get...
Hey bilkay, you just rescued me with this thread. I think Cryptkeeper screwed my Desktop folder causing it to disappear from my Home folder dumping all my folders onto the Desktop. The solution is...
Ubuntu Tweak gives an easy way to change many settings, including the Login page. I find it to be a useful application that allows control of most Ubuntu settings.
I have a Dell Inspiron 1750 that is about one year old and it works perfectly with 10.10, at least I have not found any piece of hardware that is not fully working. I installed the Broadcom driver...
The primary screen. The flash was most noticeable using Firefox but then again thats what I use most of the time on this laptop.
+1 for me to. Bravo 10.10
I have a Dell Inspiron 1750 and thankfully no more screen flicker.
Well, I did a fresh install of 10.10 64bit on my Dell Latitude 1750 and I seem to be in luck as the flashing screen has stopped. The only problem I have had with 10.10 is with gPodder 2.6 (it has a...
Is this deja vu?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1473580
I was hoping a fresh install of 10.10 would at last fix this problem for me.
Thanks 3Miro, I have checked prefs>Nautilus Make Desktop Home folder already and it is not checked.
Adding a Desktop folder to the home directory I doubt will solve much. To return to normal my...
Yep..
The problem is that the special folder "Desktop" has disappeared from my home directory. Anyone know the correct way to get it back?
The problem seems to be visible in Nautilus, my home directory in the list on the left under Places has disappeared. Leaving Desktop at the top of the list. Likewise Desktop has disappeared from my...
I don't think I did anything likely to cause this yesterday.
name = my home directory that contains all my top level folders like Documents, Downloads, Music etc.
I have never seen anything like this before. Starting up today my usually completely free of clutter desktop is showing all of my home directory folders!
If I delete folders from the desktop, they...
How about making a 4GB bootable USB stick with 3GB persistence file. I find these great for testing and you can use it over and over till you are happy with the setup. Just don't attempt to do the...
I find Gnomebaker to be good because it can burn very slowly, I last used or 2x successfully.
I prefer to use a bootable USB but thats not so easy to create if you don't have a working Linux installation to make it with. I can't remember if 8.04 had the "Startup Disk Creator" to make a USB...