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Had to revert to a fresh install as removing the drivers somehow caused failure to boot, but now running smoothly on 390 drivers.

Why is Ubuntu recommending -440 if people know that this version...

Thanks for the reply! Workstation is a Precision T3500 which I understand doesnt have UEFI.

When I go to software and updates (previous driver version used before I started playing with it was...

I have a clean install of 20.04 on an old Dell workstation with a Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 Ti. There is no onboard graphics.

Graphics were fine during the installation, however after booting to the...

I have a machine running Ubuntu 20.04, with Virtualbox running 2 headless Windows VMs in parallel.

The 2 VMs have bridged network connections and static IPS. I use windows remote desktop from...

PC is a Celeron 420 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Intel x86 MMX onboard GFX.

If its down to hardware then its a case of Ubuntu not controlling it very well...as the problems aren't mirrored in a (very slow!)...

Am having issues with videos on a Ubuntu machine.

With any streamed video (facebook / youtube), generally the audio stream will come through OK but video will be stuttered / unusable, you might...

Solved.

Need to run sudo modprobe usblp for it to work.

Sudo modprobe usblp
Sudo mtink
sudo modprobe -r usblp

After that it picked up the printer automatically.

Hi - just checking is there any application or other way to monitor ink levels on the Epson Stylus SX235W printer using 13.04?

I've seen this thread...

Am not trying to upgrade using Live USB, just to test 12.10 works with my hardware. I'd previously tried upgrading this particular machine via the software updaterupgrade from 11.10 to 12.04...

I have 11.10... I didnt know startup disk creator existed or what it did!

Will give that a lash and see how I get one, thank you!

Hi all - so now that the ISO image exceeds a CD capacity, how do I try the LiveCD before installing?

I don't have a DVDR / RW, I do have a USB stick, and I don't have a Windows install to use any...

As follows (thanks for the help)


/etc/apt/sources.list.d/oneiric-partner.list:deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner #Added by software-center...

OK, have looked here - contents are as follows. Again, am not seeing any duplicates. My upgrade crashed just before going for a restart when going to Precise from Oneiric in around the time when...

Hi all

Since upgrading, when I run an update I get an error along the lines of


W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner i386 Packages...

Just tried installing Draftsight using 12.04 defaults (open .deb in Software Centre) - installation failed.

Used Gdebi (after right clicking the deb, Open with other package, find package online)...

Solved in part. Resorted to a clean install of 11.10 as a short term fix (12.04 Live CD also failed before getting to that), Windows 7 now ordered.

Sorry Ubuntu, this was one muck up too far...

Thank you. Solved that part of this mess.

Now for broken wifi and getting to the bottom of why 12.04 turns this machine into a brick!

Tried upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04 - broke the computer (seperate thread in Upgrades sub forum).

I resorted to a clean install - PC dual boots Vista and Ubuntu. I have a seperate home partition....

Have tried all other older kernel versions - the boot hangs in the same place every time.

Running nomodeset I have a fail at "*Starting automatic crash report generation".

After a list of starting / stoppings, I have a message relating to service S25bluetooth and Pulseaudio.

The...

Thanks but doesn't help - just getting a different black screen of text.

How would I do that?

I can boot into what I think Root Shell is by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 at the ugly screen, yes.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/106548/boot-fails-pulseaudio

Quick edit / addition - The above link describes the same final prompt that I see after trying to boot.

Tried upgrading a PC from 11.10 to 12.04, everything went hunky dory up until the prompt to restart after all new packages / cleanup etc had gone through.

The computer hung on shutdown - left it...

Bump...I gave up and bought an Epson, still don't like having my printer turned into a brick though - any update on this bug?