I was trying out debian testing a few days ago and had this problem sporadically. If I logged-out and logged back in the background would appear. I guess the important thing here is that this is...
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I was trying out debian testing a few days ago and had this problem sporadically. If I logged-out and logged back in the background would appear. I guess the important thing here is that this is...
Go all-out UEFI. Save yourself the trouble down the line. UEFI will have no effect on VMs. I just finished updating my laptop with 12.04.2 from legacy to uefi - it takes time and will usually require...
How to apply a kernel patch
patch -p1 < ../patch-x.y.z will usually work
sometimes patch -p0 < ../patch-x.y.z
depends on how the patch was created (basically the -p command tells patch to strip X...
I do not believe the Dell Inspiron's have any more sensors than what you show. 'sudo sensors' on my Inspiron N4110 shows the exact same output as yours (temps are slightly cooler, however.) :)
You cannot simply take a hard drive with a Windows install on it and put it into another computer (or virtualbox) and boot that same Windows. During the Windows installation process, Windows is...
I would highly recommend checking for hardware problems. Check the memory, CPU, hard disk. It will be time consuming, but still something that should be done. I recommend starting with memtest (I...
Unity using 3D software acceleration works fine.
Make sure Virtualbox Settings -> Display -> Extended Features: Enable 3D Acceleration and Enable 2D Video Acceleration are both unchecked.
Once the consolekit issue is fixed (which is why lightdm is pausing for 20 seconds during boot), most of you should see your boot times speed up by about 20 seconds.
All of these bugs are related...
If you disable 3D acceleration in the VM's settings, Unity 2D works well.
Check this out:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds
Check this out for changing the default kernel to boot in Grub2:...
Do you have linux-headers-generic installed?
Using the development repositories, it's possible your local copy of the repos had the new linux-image-generic but linux-headers-generic had yet to be...
Tip for you folks using 12.04 who will be manually updating to the 3.5 kernel:
Save yourself a lot of headaches by installing linux-headers-generic-lts-quantal BEFORE installing...
Refer to http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=173790
Don't hold me to this, but you could try installing the appropriate 10.05 deb for the most recent ubuntu release, which would be quantal.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/codeblocks Scroll down a...
Take a look at /etc/default/grub and change 'GRUB_GFXMODE'. For example, mine is 'GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768'. After saving the changes, run 'sudo update-grub'. Reboot and enjoy a nice plymouth and the...
KDE is a great environment but it is much more resource intensive than GNOME, which for some is the turn away (for me it is.) Right now, I'm running lucid in virtualbox on old hardware and KDE moves...
You won't find 3.0.6 in any launchpad repo because it will get rejected outright because the ubuntu package archive already has xulrunner-1.9.0.6 and firefox-3.0.6 listed. (I tried already...)
It fixes security vulnerabilities. It SHOULD be a big deal, more so than feature additions.
I believe this update also involves xulrunner-1.9 which is also a pretty long build. Remember they're building for several archs and several releases (hardy and intrepid.) I reported it Friday night...
Ah I figured it out.. stupid hidden files. For anyone else with the problem: Make sure Program Files is empty before you install Steam. If you already have stuff installed there then simply move it...
I'm using the exact default options in the SteamInstall.msi installer and It will not install when I press okay at the location where to install it. It says "C:\Program Files" and when I press okay...
I would NOT recommend using Wine 1.1.13. It is buggy as hell. Good example: World of Warcraft will not install using the Blizzard downloader. With the intrepid repo version of wine (1.0.1 i think)...
I should mention that the -K/--kernel-module-only option of the NVIDIA driver installer is broken.... as it is completely ignored:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.82-pkg2.run -K -k...
If someone still has the source from the PPA then they could build it... but OO.org takes forever to compile. I'm guessing OO 3.0 was intentionally removed due to a program-stopping bug after the...
This may have already been said but if a hacker gets physical access to your computer then you might as well tell them the password (or not even set one.)