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Purely because of it's compact size, the netbook is becoming more and more my main box. It was shipped with XP and could handle a lot of games, video and even some music production software.

Now,...

Installing iotop worked fine through synaptic...phew!

@Snowpine

I tried the poulsbo fixes on the forum, but they borked my system.

I know the atom is slow, but if the ram does not get used more than 20%, does that mean my ram upgrade was...

Do you think I should file a bug report on it?

Don't worry! The fact you immediately helped me rectify the damage speaks volumes about you. Many would have panicked and bailed. LOL

Would it be safe for me install iotop using synaptic?
I still...

This has deleted 160 packages!
Xchat has gone, loads of perl stuff....HELP!!??


sudo aptitude install iotop
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Thanks for your quick reply!



loki@loki-laptop ~ $ top

top - 13:20:18 up 20:33, 2 users, load average: 0.94, 1.17, 1.32
Tasks: 125 total, 2 running, 123 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0...

Hello all,

I have a Packard Bell Dot M netbook. It has the 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor with the poulsbo chipset. I have upgraded the RAM to 2Gb.
It is running MintLinux Gloria (Jaunty).
...

Inspired by the above post I am installing XP in a virtual box, with the intention of using it to create a bootable XP USB drive using the tools available that run under XP.

I shall report back...

Thanks for your reply!
Unfortunately I do want a full installation and no virtualization.
Any ideas?

Hello all,

An older relative recently bough a Dot M netbook from Mediamarkt in germany. She cannot get along with a german keyboard and also is disappointed with the performance of a netbook, so...

I installed a fresh Jaunty build on my system, and had no sound.
I followed the instructions very carefully and still have no sound.

Playback devices ARE reported in volume control but no sound...

Thanks for your reply!
I installed gnome-user-share and it allows me to specify whether or not I want to share public folders over a network, but how do I allow a remote user (in a different...

Sorry, I am not answering your question...

Did you find a deb package for the global menu bar or compile it yourself?
(I am still baffled by compiling)

Sorry if this is a non-helpful post, but why ask this here?
There are plenty of forums geared towards webdesign, CSS and javascripting.

This forum is for help with the Ubuntu OS and it's...

Nevermind...

I found this guide on how to remove pulseaudio.

Hello all,

Recently I *decided* that the volume my laptop put out was not enough and dig some digging on the net to find out what I could do.
I followed a guide (sorry - no link, but it was an...

My system has an Intel chip and runs quite nicely.
(Maybe there are some differences in Mint that improve performance?)

I found KDE4 to very counterintuitive, heavy and slow compared to Gnome 2.26. I even think that Gnome is prettier when it comes to effects and window decorations (using emerald).

Thsi is all very...

This is very strange indeed silvagroup, especially as your wife's machine has the same issue without using Evolution. (I think we can therefore safely rule out Evolution as the culprit)

I run...

Hello all,

According to these release notes file sharing has been made easier in 2.26.

It should be easy to share files over LAN, HTTP and Bluetooth.
Can anyone explain to me how to share...

I would love to, but I have caught the *nix bug and am now a number of distros further down the road.
I will be changing to Mint Gloria later today, if I get Compiz running on that I'll post my xorg...

Never mind.
I reinstalled.
:(

Hello all,

I have installed Kepas on my KDE system with no issues.
I have created a KPF (public folder) and opened the corresponding port on both my firewall and router.

Now I would like to be...

er....no it doesn't.