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I'm trying to use an external monitor with my laptop, but it doesn't work! The external monitor with do this weird flickering from side-to-side making everything almost illegible, and it's...

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The wireless doesn't work on my Ubuntu 9.04. I've been in another country for a year and was working on a wired connection the whole time, but now I'm back home and nothing works. Ubuntu...

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I run Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit system on a Toshiba Satellite A215-S5837, with an ATI Raedon x1200 graphics card. I would like to increase the screen refresh rate above 60Hz, but it won't let me....

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I'm running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 8.10 ". I finally got Spore to work through wine [install and run, sounds work, etc.], but when the game loads, the screen is all messed up. When I...

UPDATE: SPORE WOOOORKS! My only problem now is sorting out the graphics [getting a bunch of weird lines and colors] but otherwise it works!

The cracked .exe worked like a charm. [I know it isn;t...

According to the wine website, it should work. I'll try installing it without the directX thing or the EA download manager.

EDIT: The game still won't load, and I still keep getting that annoying...

Has anyone been able to install it on a 64-bit version of Intrepid Ibex?

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My sister got the game SPORE for Christmas. It doesn't work on her Windows XP.

I'm trying to get the game to work on my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 so we can play the darn thing. I install it...

IT WORKED. PERFECTLY.

God I love Linux.... now if only Windows CDs were as easy to get as Linux CDs... :)

Aha! So this one?

Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #5 for its boot files.

sda1:
File system: ntfs
Mounting failed:
$LogFile...

Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #13 for its boot files.

sda1:
File system: ntfs
Mounting failed:
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown...

I can boot into Ubuntu! 8D

Grub still "sees" the other partitions, but that doesn't really bother me that much.

AND I can mount my Windows partition! I'm listening to music from it right now :)

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo sfdisk --force /dev/sda < ~/Desktop/partition_table.txt
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy

This disk is currently in...

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ntfsprogs is already the newest version.
0...

Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #256 for its boot files.

sda1:
File system: ntfs
Mounting failed:
$LogFile indicates unclean...

Got me a Live CD. Followed your codes.


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For...

I downloaded the CD to install the 64-bit version of Ubuntu .10. I DO have a Knoppix disk somewhere that works, would that do?

but I don;t think I can boot from my Ubuntu 8.10 CD....or I just don't know how to O.o

What kinds of problems would I have if I did it from a partition?

So I just delete the extra partitions in gparted [I run it from my main ubuntu installation] and then run the code?

(I don't want to make any stupid mistakes...last time I crashed GRUB and...

Booting into sda5 doesn't work...and I just tried it to prove it XD

The windows itself on there was never really a fully working system. T'was an experimental side-install to get the windows...

darkfire@Basilisk:~$ cat /media/sda2/boot.ini
[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS.1
[operating systems]...

Setting up ntfsprogs (2.0.0-1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
darkfire@Basilisk:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
Mounting volume... FAILED...

[sorry for the late reply! D8]


Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #13 for its boot files.

sda1:
File system: ntfs
Mounting failed: ...

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I've got a funky problem with my laptop. It was a dual-boot between windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04. I had added another partiton to it by installing 8.10 in 64-bit version, and being the stupid...

..............um...what am I supposed to do?

[sorry for being so stupid D8 I blame it on having used Windows for so long...]

EDIT: Nevermind, I think I solved the problem from here:...