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A separate partition for the home folder is not necessary (see my previous comment).

@JonUK76 : It is a little known fact, but you can reinstall ubuntu on top of your previous ubuntu install without formatting the root partition. Your home folder will not be touched. So you can...

Thanks mlind, three years and a half later, your post helped me revert maverick from proposed to normal.

There is a bug report about this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/580312

No workaround though...

Anyone ?

Press ALT+F2 and type the following command:
gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
This will open the text editor with root permissions.
Hope it helps.
Ric.

Note that the correct filename is
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf instead of "/etc/modprobe.d/alsa.base" (there's a minus sign between "alsa" and "base", not a dot. It's also recommendend to use the...

Hi v04sva,

You can try to install "linux-backports-modules-jaunty" (and revert your changes to "snd-hda-intel").

Ric.

Acer Aspire 5050 owners, using Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty): the following will make your speakers, headphone and INTERNAL MICROPHONE work.

press ALT + F2
enter this command:
enter your password
...

Thank you, but finally it seems that the card is damaged. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. If we take the card out, move it around, shake it, etc, it works for a few minutes. After a...

This how-to partially works for me: sometimes, the connection is fully functional (WEP) for about 10 to 30 minutes, but then the computer freezes. Sometimes, the computer is very slow after boot, and...