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Sorry, not sure, however, doing a "sudo alsa force-reload" from a terminal solved the problem for me. I still have the problem where only one app or app type can use sound at a time :(

Same problem here. Multitude of errors similar to OP's after upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid. Mind you, sound was not working ideally in Hardy either but at least the only problem back then was that...

I have the same problem and using NVidia settings or not, I cannot set above 51Hz for refresh rate.

I've had enough problems with apps to worry about bleeding edge. Ubuntu seems to be a nice balance.

Rocket2DMn, thanks for pointing that out, that was closer to my expectations (the reason I made...

Wow... Ubuntu is hungry! I will resize partitions after awhile but I thought 3GB would comfortably fit a standard desktop installation.

Now that you remind me, I forgot all about the spare 3GB partition I had, that will be perfect.

A live CD never done justice for me when it came to reviewing an OS though.

It's a dock, e.g. AWN (Avant Window Navigator)

Please use more descriptive thread titles in future.

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I am using Arch and liking it however there are a few issues such as suspend to RAM that worked fine on Ubuntu out of the box that I miss. Other things include the fact that I have a...

bobpaul, I doubt there is much more to this issue anyway. If the thread gets out of hand, a mod can split the thread. Anyway, I had this problem after reinstalling Steam to an NTFS partition and this...

Using a mostly stock Ubuntu install with 169.12 NVidia drivers installed, Fn-F8 is not working (this hot-key is commonly found on laptops to switch between the laptop screen and the external display...

Ah, that happened on another computer I installed Ubuntu on, I thought it was because of the constant updating of development kernels (this was months ago on hardy alpha versions).

My fix was to...

1) Bad luck, this must have been a problem with the migration/upgrade, not hardy. But then, I assume you have KDE which I don't know too much about.

2) On a clean install, Hardy's boot time is...

Not sure what those things are exactly but have you tried other options? Kopete seems to be more featured than Pidgin for example.


Not free unfortunately


Poor performance though... you'd...

10 fold reduction in response times by switching to XFCE/Xubuntu. Should have tried that earlier but thought that XFCE would only mask the problem. I still have XFCE + Compiz + Emerald and am...

Things have improved, not to an ideal level but satisfactory nonetheless.

Unfortunately, I have tried so many things that I cannot isolate the fix.

Here are some of the things I done:


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Similar.

- had no idea what distro to get, over estimated the differences between distros
- made unpartitioned space for linux
- got an ubuntu 5.04 cd/dvd shipped to me
- loaded the live cd and...

My reasons:


Package management (especially useful for updates, upgrades and languages)
Security / stability / reliability / performance
Ability to customise
Much more productive
Looks...

Get the sources and compile from that. Why are you using 64 bit anyway?

http://www.google.com/search?q=compiling+from+sources+in+linux

I must not have phrased what I said clearly, Firefox only makes the issue more obvious, using a lightweight Epiphany/Kazekhadze improves the system responsiveness but the issues are still there, my...

That is usually only a problem when you have two package management utilities running simultaneously, e.g. using apt-get update when synaptic is already running.

I think I recall one incident...

I've found this to be a pain too especially when using the Ubuntu graphical installer when it set the screen res to 800x600 and I could not see the buttons on one of the install steps. To add to...

No special software is needed. Most burning applications can write .iso and other images to disc. I am not sure if Dapper has this but in the file manager (nautilus), you can try right clicking the...

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EDIT ( June 2008 ):
For the record, Arch 2008.03 i686 with Arch's nvidia package and a Gnome/Compiz-Fusion/Emerald/NVidia 169.12 environment is working flawlessly,...

The themes have to correspond to the window manager you are running or something like that. Have you tried both Metacity and GTK 2.x themes?

Thanks for this.

For those having issues, switch to the root user before running this to make things easier.

At the console:

su
>Password: *****

Also, on the 3rd line, you might want to...