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I attempted to set up a virtual MIDI port using:


sudo modprobe snd-virmidi

but I don't know how to verify if that MIDI port was in fact created

hey all,
been out of the loop for a while (was experimenting with OSX) and i cannot seem to get my resolution to go higher than 1024x768. my monitor supports up to 1440x900, but the autodetection...

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thank you for your help! i am now able to mount the partition to /mnt/spare...however, when i try to access files, i get an permissions error. i made sure to make it rwx for all users so...

hey everyone,

trying to mount a fat partition (labeled /dev/sda1) but it seems like it is not in the fstab file?

can someone tell me what i need to place in the fstab file so that the partition...

hey,
i would like to know if the sound issue i am having is hardware or software related....

the problem is, over time, if i am playing music files or watching a flash video, the sound will...

bump again?

bump?

hey everyone,
i really would like to use abiword to type chinese. i have scim set up, but when i type in the words, all i get are empty "o"'s...as a result i installed the open office word processor...

thank you so much! all i needed was the directory of the launcher file!

edit:
ok..so i guess it was only a temporary fix, problem now is that under applications there is no line for a bittorent...

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i cannot seem to get firefox to detect Deluge as my default for .torrent files, and it is kind of a bother having to download all the torrent files to my desktop and then open it from...

much thanks!@

hey all,
installed wine, hoping to play some starcraft but i couldn't handle the lagg so i removed it, but the menu option to run starcraft under wine is still there..how do i remove it under XFCE?...

thanks for the tip! it works..but i can't make it permenant because i can't figure out how to modify the menu option, when i go to modify the menu through the settings manager, i can't modify the...

hey thank you for the reply! but unfortunately, there was no change to the terminal's initial size.any other possiblities?

using openbox standalone...unless i rename the menu.xml file, when i right click nothing will show up, my current workaround is to rename menu.xml to test.xml, and then when i successfully log in and...

hey everyone,

using xubuntu's terminal emulator and i find it annoying that i cannot resize the default size of the terminal..every time it opens i need to spend an extra second changing to a more...

i realize that zfs is yet to be completed, but upon completion would a version of ubuntu that utilizes this fs be possible? or would the effort involved outweigh the result?

yes

i should mention i am not using an install disk...my laptop has no optical drive and cannot boot from USB, so i use the disk image option outlined here
...

hey all,
trying to install xubuntu using the alternate install disk, but when i get to the partition manager, all i get is a box of ??? ???

any ideas?

well you would have to modify the menu.lst file, which would tell the grub bootloader which OS to boot. i am sure you can do this from windows, i just dont remember exactly how you do it...check the...

no floppy drive/cd drive available..

so i downloaded the proper files, but i can't seem to start the partitioner?
all i get are ??? ???...

i am hoping to install xubuntu using the cd image method outlined here

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromWindows

but i do believe i need the xubuntu version of...

thank you for your replies.

problem is this machine was built to be ultra portable, and as a result has no cd drive. there is no ethernet cable, and i am not going to do a server install from a...