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I did what it said in:


How to restore the Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7 bootloader (Updated for Ubuntu 9.10)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708

It worked perfectly and following a

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Thanks,

My original disc had XP on it first. I then used an ubuntu installation to repartition the disc to add itself to the original disc. It may still have had Grub 1 on it, but not sure.

The...

I have been running a dual boot system with Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit with the dual boot selected by Grub (placed y an Ubuntu install).

Recently I have installed Window 7 Home on a spare...

I Upgraded from 10.04 64 bit to 10.10 64 bit. The upgrade seemed to go OK.

On reboot, it re-booted said:

Starting Up...

the text changed to a different font then the screen went blank and...

jjcv,

Thank you for that. I have now got it running but I also had to rename:

/usr/lib/mozilla/extensions/plugins

Only got to sort out Flash plugins and things now!

Thanks for the help,

I have just upgraded from 9.10 64 bit to 10.04 64 bit.

Mostly smooth but firefox will not run. It started up, said one of my add-ons was not compatible (Silverlight or Moonlight I think) and did...

Garvan,

Thank you, it worked!

When one tries something different one learns a bit more.


Best wishes,

Steve

Garvan,

Thanks for that tip! I shall try it this evening.

Steve

I have a device which contains a USB serial port (ftdi FT232). Ubuntu sees this and presents it as /dev/ttyUSB0. I can access this through Linux programs (Ubuntu Karmic 64 bit).

I need to access...

After lots of trial and error I have found how to do it:


self.setCursor(QtGui.QCursor(QtCore.Qt.CrossCursor))

I am just starting with QT4 in Python. Iam trying to change the cursor for a Widget to the CrossCursor (cross hairs) but I cannot find how to define the cursor in python. I am trying to use...

I think you may have your comparisons wrong.
instead of:

if player == 1 & ai == 2:
etc
Try

if (player == 1) and (ai == 2):
etc

When I enable the Restricted video driver (96.43.09) for my nvidia MX440 graphics card, all the text in the menus of windows apps is blank. This is also true for the Wine Configuration application....

Glenn,

I don't know scientific python/Pylab etc but the write statement you have in normal python will only write what you are getting.

You may try:



f=open('myfile.txt','w')...

I had no joy with:

Option "RenderAccel" "0"

So I have re-installed Ubuntu from scratch without installing the restricted driver, and now that I have installed Wine (1.0.1) on this new install...

Yes, that looks like the same bug. I have had this working, I don't use this machine much (only to run radio apps that are ony available under Windows) so it may have been before I installed the...

When I installed Ubuntu (clean install, there was no previous version of Ubuntu) I used the driver which wa installed at this time. A update came up saying there was a restricted driver (version 96,...

I had Normal visual effects set.

I have now disabled visual effects with the following consequences:

Text in the Notepad window now appears.
Menu/control text now appears but is overlapped (it...

I had some radio frequency interference whilst using a windows program under Wine. The result is that, whilst programs appear to run correctly, all the menus and button/control text is blank (apart...

I am running 8.10 64 bit (NOT in a virtual box), and I am using the 177.80 restricted video driver with no issues (yet!) on my nVidia 8400 GS card. It says it should work with later nVidia cards.
...

Have you seen the webcam issues in:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=966436

Raj,

Even though you said it, I missed the "hardy" in your first quote, sorry. You are right that what I said was not relevant. The conculsion would seem to be that the 0c45:6128 Microdia webcam...

I have just fixed my webcam problems with the help of a bug report at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/260918

You will have to see if it will work with your particular webcam.

Good...

I finally got it working! I don't have to fill Microsoft's coffers this time. I found that I needed to do quite a complicated procedure (for me!) that is documented at:
...

Raj,

First see the webcam issues in:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=966436


If that does not work, I have just fixed my webcam problems with the help of a bug report at:
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