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Oh, I thought that the half screen problem was caused by Unity (3D). I just tested restarting and everything is working correctly.

In case this can help anyone, I documented the steps I took to...

Since GMA 500 doesn't work with Unity (3D), how to I make it so that Unity 2D is the default interface when logging in?

I have had this error message before from installing a previous version of Ubuntu. While I may be remembering the solution to a different problem, the following may help.

The issue was that I was...

I figured out how to modify his patch to be correct:

diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c b/drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c
index a138b5d..07f6b17 100644
---...

As I said in my reply to Florian about forcing Dell Mini 10 to hardware version 2, his patch needs to

Remove:
if ((etd->fw_version_maj == 0x02 && etd->fw_version_min >= 0x30) ||
...

I think we have found the solution to this problem.

See this bug report:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9175201#post9175201

...and this thread:...

If your problem is the touchpad being recognized as a wheel mouse, then the following links my be helpful.

Bug report:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9175201#post9175201

...and...

According to this
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg08298.html

...Good :)

Great work...thanks for your continued help.

As I just said on the bug report, I think your instructions worked, but it does not seem like the patch worked for me.

I am very excited get this...

Yea, I noticed that it didn't persist across a reboot.

I followed your instructions, and now it does persist across a reboot.

I am going to try and apply the patches again.

Yes :)

That last command get my touchpad working again.

For the record, my touchpad is still being recognized as a wheel mouse.

Also, I would recommend structuring your tutorial similar to...

I replaced amd64 with i386 in two places, once in each of the first two commands.

I tried your newest commands (with i386 replacing amd64 since I have a 32 bit system) and I still get the same module format error when executing the last command.

Crap...

When your commands didn't work for me the first time, I tried them again without thinking what I was executing...so I lost my backup :(

These instructions didn't work for me and now my touchpad doesn't work at all.

When executing the last instruction, I get:

tyson@tyson-netbook:~/src/linux-source-2.6.31$ sudo modprobe psmouse...

I created a bug in lanuchpad about this issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/552800

I also had this problem after trying to update a fresh USB install (via the USB Startup Disk Creator).

Changing the extension .lz to .gz (as described above) also worked for me.

Thanks! :)

Sure, I figured out how to add this printers for myself, but that is not what I was asking.

I want to know how I can add the PPD files into Ubuntu by default so that other Ubuntu users do not have...

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How would I go about adding printers to Ubuntu that are not there by default? I have access to a collection of PPD's where at least one of them is not in Ubuntu by default. Is this something that...

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If I can get my HDD to mount, then sometime later (maybe hours or days) it will unmount itself because of "an unhandled error" (according to log files). After this, I am not able to remount the...

You could ssh with X forwarding and then use the GUI method to configure the auto-login settings.

You could use cron.

I had the same problem and was able to solve it. I describe how I solved it in a blog post.