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I usually only upgrade if the release I'm running on is getting old (like 2-ish years) or there's something annoying about it that I hope the next release will fix.

That said. I'll be sticking...

Is there any way to get rid of these 101 errors at bootup, which presumable are due to the fact that the network drivers aren't yet loaded, or something.


mount error(101): Network is unreachable...

So after a number of hours last night following just about every "how to" I could find on getting the proprietary nvidia drivers installed, I ended up with the dreaded "wallpaper only" desktop. ...

I also have a 9500GT and I'm using the Nouveau drivers. I just couldn't find a good way to install the Nvidia driver that actually worked without causing some other problem. The Nouveau works, but...

I have two network drives that I wanted pinned to the launcher in Unity. When I first mounted them, they both automatically appeared, but soon after, one of them vanished.

In .local/share, I...

I ended up doing a fresh install, then adding my yahoo account under "Online Accounts".

In the end, I needed a Pidgin plugin called pidgin-libnotify. It's not perfect (I don't really need the...

I finally did a 13.04 reformat/reinstall from USB, and for a few minutes, the envelope icon up on the taskbar (next to the battery icon) would turn blue on incoming IMs. Then, it inexplicably...

I did a "flying upgrade", so I think what I'll probably do is install 13.04 from scratch (which is a total bore!). There are too many funkinesses that I think are a result of upgrading instead of...

Well the thing is, there's no pidgin (or yahoo) option in Online Accounts. Just Facebook, Flickr, Google, Windows Live, and identi.ca.

After jumping between desktops in 12.x, I finally decided to give Unity a solid try, and it's kind of grown on me. But in 13.04, we've lost the system tray, which is fine, except for one thing. I...

Now that I've finally gotten my proper video drivers installed and working, I've noticed a Plymouth problem. It's not a huge deal because it doesn't seem to affect how the machine runs, but it's...

This seems to have done the trick. Thanks!

Awesome, thanks. I've added that and we'll see if it works before I try the others.

Love your doggie avatar btw!

Thanks papibe!

I've previously tried saving the settings to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (there wasn't one of those files originally) but it all seems to reset the first time the screen cycles off when...

I'll remember that the next time you want to play Red Alert 2. :p

I have an nvidia 9500GT and am using the drivers that shipped with 12.10 (304.43). I'm running two 19" monitors, and the left one is on a KVM switch that I can toggle between my ubuntu machine and a...

Thanks bogan! They installed, so let me see how that goes.

EDIT: Yep! Looks like I'm on the proper driver now. Thanks!

I was running 12.04 and on Friday I installed 12.10 from USB. Everything went fine, but I'm having some video problems.

I am running an nvidia 9500GT with dual monitors and a KVM switch that...

My luck hasn't improved much, Jed.

I installed something called 'pysdm' to see if I would have any luck with it getting the SD card to mount. At first it seemed promising because I was able to...

Thanks for that info Jed. Now that I know it's a known bug, I can write a bash script as a workaround. Plug in the card, run the script (that unmounts and remounts it) and I should be good to go.

Good ideas. I've tried three different cards in this machine now, and they all do the exact same thing. I don't have another ubuntu machine, but the cards read fine in my Win7 machine.

If I...

I used to connect my Canon Rebel directly to my PC, and the gthumb photo import tool would automatically open, and I could import pics.

Since installing 12.04, the camera is no longer detected,...

Aha! Solved, accidentally.

When I chose a new theme in the gnome tweak tool, the gnome tweak tool dialog box wasn't changing. It turns out that I had to close out of the tweak tool to get the...

Thanks. I have those installed, but they don't seem to have much of an effect.

I have compiz installed, and I have something called "tweak tool". The latter has a "theme" section where I've chosen things like Window theme (titlebars), cursor theme, icon theme, GTK+ theme...