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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5464 <user> 20 0 3098776 367908 143084 S 52.5 9.4 ...

Hi, thanks all for the help!

18.04 is installed rather than 20.04 for aesthetic preference/I'm used to it.

Running the SMART self-test in Disks returns "Disk is OK" and an "OK" assessment for...

Hello,

Our desktop computer was starting to get pretty sluggish, so a couple of weeks ago I did a fresh install of the OS (Ubuntu 18.04). Things were better for a few days, but that hasn't lasted....

Thanks - I have no recollection of why ndiswrapper was installed.

Upgrading to 18.04 fixed whatever the issue was, and I have removed ndiswrapper now anyway.

Hi,

WiFi on our desktop has suddenly stopped working. It uses an Atheros AR9271 USB dongle, which shows up when lsusb is run, but no networks are visible in network-manager. There is also no...

That's very helpful, thank you. I'll try some other Linux distros too.

I bought a Novatech nSpire N1678 laptop recently, which I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on. Unfortunately, it crashes a couple of times per day - often enough that I started keeping track of them.

Some...

The firmware is apparently up-to-date. I have a much newer router in the cupboard which I never managed to get working - will give that another go.

Thanks!

I don't think this is actually an Ubuntu issue, but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction anyway.

Basically, if I use any video chat software (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype), my...

Hi,

For a few months now, I've had a problem connecting to wireless networks on my laptop (Novatech NSpire running 16.04). When I boot my laptop, no wireless networks appear as available. If I run...

Ah, I was going to suggest checking for dust in the headphone socket - this was causing me to have similar problems recently.

Does this happen with headphones only/as well?

Did you have any luck with this?

The contourconfig software doesn't seem to work with my Contour+2 camera. It either fails to recognise the camera (although Ubuntu recognises it), or fails to open.

Thanks for your reply, Bogan.

I managed to boot into recovery mode in one of the older versions of the kernel available, and from there updated packages and now everything seems to be working...

Hi, when I switched my netbook on this morning it took me to a black screen with a flashing mouse in the middle.

I've followed the flowchart in post 1, and can now successfully get as far as step...

See attached image. Seems like a very simple, useful feature.

Is it possible?
If so, how?
If not, why not?

Cheers.

It's in the repositories.


sudo apt-get install gnudatalanguage

A newer version is also available here: http://aramis.obspm.fr/~coulais/IDL_et_GDL/Ubuntu/Packaging-Download_pageFR.html

That...

No changes.

However, this problem doesn't occur when using a wired connection, only a wireless one, so I think it's a problem with the router settings, although I can't find what it is.

EDIT:...

Both problems seem to sort themselves out just by waiting 10 minutes after switching my laptop on.

Very strange.

I can't find this plugin in synaptic.

I recently moved flat and just got a new internet connection (Orange) and router (Netgear).

Since then, I have had two main problems:

1. Some sites just don't seem to work in Chrome. One is...

Fantastic, it's working fine now.

In the interests of preventing it from happening again, do you know why this happened?

Many thanks.

Cheers. However, sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc gives the error message "mount: /proc: can't read superblock"

This morning when I booted my laptop I received a bash screen which said "General error mounting filesystems".

I thought it may have been a GRUB problem, so booted from a Live CD and tried to...

I just installed Linux on my external HD, leaving my computer's HD with XP on it. I was hoping that when I removed the external, the computer would just boot into XP as normal, but instead it gives...