About 3 months ago, my display blinked and blanked and, over time, the situation got worse, to the point of becoming unusable.
Initially, I suspected the on-mother board ATI Radeon graphics...
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About 3 months ago, my display blinked and blanked and, over time, the situation got worse, to the point of becoming unusable.
Initially, I suspected the on-mother board ATI Radeon graphics...
After fighting this for 4 days, I finally decided to do a fresh install of Ubuntu-11.10. In so doing, I wiped out my entire HD, including the .xsesssion-errors file I had stored. The Install over...
I am having a devil of a time with “Cannot display..” on Ubuntu 11.10 on a 64 bit AMD PC:
I cannot [shift] access Grub when booting from the HD.
Commenting out “GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=00”...
As an absolute beginner, I first searched the Absolute Beginner forum with little success, not realizing that the searches DO NOT span forums. Then, I posted on the AB forum, with good initial...
Good advice. There is a ton of info in the first [sticky] post of the Installations & Upgrades forum.
Thanks,
RF
Thanks. The mounting stuff was a little beyond me. But, I did discover that Ctrl-Alt-F1 got past the "Cannot display.." window to a rather crude command line. There I was able to:
uncomment “#...
Thank you for your advice. I am embarrassed to say it is way over my head. I come from the Windows world and, even after over a month trying to get Ubuntu 11.10 to work, I am reaching the conclusion...
That is the rub: I cab sit on the Shift key from when the bios screen shows, through the black screen, the purple screen with "Ubuntu" and some text messages, to the black "Cannot display.." screen....
Is there a way to boot Ubuntu-11.10 to a command line interface so I can bypass the graphics to regain control of my PC and do some apt-get updating? I have been hit by “Cannot display this video...
I stand corrected. After booting from the Ubuntu-11.10 CD, I am able to execute the fix resolution script from the link in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ in what would normally be the boot partition of my PC's...
I just learned to open the more familiar terminal window with Ctrl-Alt-T. The beauty of this terminal is it has more capabilities than the Ctrl-Alt-F1 terminal.
With it, I was able to execute...
Aaaaaaaargh!!!!
I just fired up my Ubuntu-11.10 PC after the holidays and I got the dreaded "Cannot display this video mode" instead of the sign-on screen I had expected. I thought I had licked...
The problem is my router will not allow me to allocate a static IP outside the range specified for the allocation of IPs.
The result is the router does allocate the static IP and all PCs can...
Thanks Azmyth
The Windows PC's have no problem accessing Ubu11.10 PC files.
My problem is Ubu11.10 PC cannot see the Windows PCs.
So, I am still stuck trying to figure out how to access the...
Hi Mapes12
Can I ask you a few questions:
Could I ask you to elaborate on what you mean by "Limited Account" and "Administrator permissions"?
Did you have to use another Samba or CIFS...
Thanks Mapes12
Hmmmmmm... this sounds promising, but I have a long way to go.
First of all, it seems PyNeighbourhood has changed quite a bit since you used it.
I managed to mount a shared...
Thanks Goditoronto,
In my dreams...
I just removed Samba from my Ubuntu-11.10 PC to "make it less complicated".
Without Samba or CIFS, the Windows PCs can no longer see the Ubuntu-11.10...
Check out posting #4 at " boot-up: Cannot display this video mode" by Fantab on how to boot-up with the correct screen resolution.
This seems to be another topic that has been beaten to death. Yet, here I bring it up again. Perhaps I have run into a Ubuntu-11.10 "feature".
I installed "system-config-samba" (now known as...
Thanks Fantab,
Your instructions in post #4 below (post 11505651) did the job.
The label I needed for the VGA output had been staring me in the face all along:
~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum...
Right on!
After wasting hours failing to set a static IP on the PC, I did it in minutes on the router.
Thanks
RF
There are a ton of postings on this topic. But it seems to be evolving.
I used "Make Ubuntu Server 11.04 use a static IP address | parabing!" as a reference. It all seems quite straight forward....
gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new
This worked great...
BUT...
I am becoming addicted to U-11.10's Dash and the newly created launcher does not show up in the Dash.
For ...
gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-newClick on the little springy icon to change it. Give the launcher a name in the "name" field, and supply the path and name of your script in the...
Doh!
Obvious, after your explanation.
Now I have a minor irritant: When I click on the icon on my desktop, a dialog window opens asking if I want to execute or display the item, which in this...