I loaded ubuntu netbook 10.10 on my presario v 6000 laptopand I am enjoying learning to navigate. I do have one problem I have a wireless nick and am using ATTwireless uverse service and I could use help setting up my network connection.
View 8 RepliesUbuntu 10.04 not loading. Sticks at GRUB Loading message.
Read the other threads re OS not loading and GRUB. The talk about code goes over my head.
Local techie says the hardware is good. Tried reloading Ubuntu from CD. Tried loading the unmentionable OS.
Tried using Spotmau Powersuite.
I Have been trying to install BitDefender on Mint 11 but without success, Would be grateful for any note my knowledge of commands is zero but have managed to get this far,
1. Downloaded BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-7.6-4.linux-gcc4x.i586.deb.run into the download file. In Terminal I have tried to run it using sudo sh followed by the filename but get the message it can't find the file. Have tried cd /Desktop & cd/Downloads (Mentioned in a Linux article) but still get nowhere. Also tried putting the file on the desktop, then properties,permissions, ticked the execute box but terminal is not showing up in that box.
I am having a hard time locating the Success Stories area here.
View 3 Replies View RelatedDual Boot Gone Bad I have been trying to set up a dual boot laptop on an old Dell Inspiron 2600. I got the machine cheap, and it is in excellent condition. I have upgraded the Bios to A11 (it was A4 when I got it) and put in a 40 Gig HD. It is maxed-out in memory at 360 Mb. It has the awful (by today's standards) Intel i810 video mess. I created an NTFS (primary) partition on the first half of the drive and installed XP, updated through SP3. I then attempted to install Debian 6 (squeeze) on the second half. I was unable to get anywhere with an installation using a squeeze Live CD. The screen just goes blank about 60 seconds into the installation, and everything freezes up. In rescue mode, I can get some screen play, but the rendering is awful and half of what you do is actually off the screen and you can't see what it is you are doing.
I hooked up a separate monitor, and was able to watch the installation just fine until it reached a certain point in the boot-up, then everything again went blank and the machine again froze up. I tried Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Mint 10, and Ultimate Edition 10.10 with varying degrees of success, but none completing and working.
The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS actually installed, but I could not get sufficient graphics in either a terminal (entered at the end of the install process just before re-booting) or booting to text only mode to sudo a change to the xorg.conf file that was native to the system, rather than to the installation package itself (which goes away when you reboot).
I was able to install 'squeeze' using the 'expert graphical install' mode under 'advanced options' (it lets you select a screen resolution when it starts the install), and when I got to the end of the installation, before re-booting, I told the system to open a monitor as 'root', and wrote what I thought would have been an appropriate xorg.conf file in the /etc/X11 subdirectory using nano (monitor and driver specs, as well as suggested xorg.conf entries obtained elsewhere on the web).
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I'M SO CLOSE! Can somebody help me and tell me how to edit GRUB so it again recognizes the partition... or reinstall GRUB.... or let me know if the problem is with the XP MBR.... And if so, maybe hopefully lead me to how to fix THAT issue without screwing up the Debian install (I know this isn't an "UGH"- Windows forum). If worst come to worst, I can delete all the Linux partitions, use my Windows install disk to repair the MBR, and reinstall lenny.... Hopefully with GRUB not losing XP this time. I hate to do it because it has taken me a couple of days to get ANY form of Linux actually working right on this machine..... but at least I know how to do it now and what distro will actually work.
Also, anybody with a clue as to why squeeze won't boot after what appears to be a successful installation (with the above-listed xorg.conf file in place) and what I can do to fix that issue would also be appreciated. It will be nice to have a system installed that has current support next year.
I've a folder named "lynx" in my desktop . It contains ebooks - pdfs,chms etc . The problem is sometimes when i open the folder in nautilus , the folder keep loading forever and sometimes it shows two or three files and keep on loading . But at some other times , folder contents are displayed just as any other folder(i.e normal ).
View 5 Replies View RelatedI tried to use the command line to burn an iso image onto a cd.
According to the instructions, which I read in many places, I should use the following command:
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But, since this command flooded the screen with the following error message,
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I tried the following (in an Ubuntu-Hardy desktop):
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Which seemes to have written nothing to the cd. So:
1) where was all that written?
2) how to use the command line to write CDs?
Hardware:Asus A8V Mainboard - Via Chrome9 Onboard K8M890(CE) ChipsetAdditional PCIe Ati/AMD Radeon HD 2400 Pro Graphics Card.Two Keyboards, two Mice. Three Monitors.So this is a heterogene (Via+Ati) Multiseat environment with 3 Monitors. (the Ati uses two by its own )I followed the following howto:http://multiseatonlinux.blogspot.com...g-up-base.htmlSoftware: Ubuntu 10.4 Modified Packages: consolekit gdm libck-connector0 libpam-ck-connector libck-connector-devBut Martijns howto doesn't work here. Either it's one Screen online or none.I had to tweak Martijns configuration to get it running.xorg.conf:Instead of two configs for two layouts I created one xorg.conf holding two different layouts.ConsoleKit:I have to use the original /etc/ConsoleKit/displays.d/Local.display.Else I get an error in Xorg.x.log:
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drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK)
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I am trying to set up swiss vpn in ubuntu 11.0.4 with no success, has anybody done
this successfully.
I got this problem with Synaptic, and now I cannot install or upgrade. Whatever I try, I get this error message:
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dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
syntax error: unknown group 'gnokii' in statoverride file
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I recently updated ubuntu9.04(download), after upgraded to 9.10, and after updated ubuntu9.10(download), well I get an alert something not updated or/and upgraded success, is any repair procedure...? I did not find any malfunction yet...
View 3 Replies View RelatedI installed Drupal and there is only one site. It I access the website [url] where Drupal is installed I can easily see it functioning properly. But on internet it is not loading properly the colors etc are not visible properly.
Following changes were made to all the sites
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I have been able to set up all of the usual wireless network services with the gnome desktop but I have had no success with the KDE desktop. I have tried to reconfigure the network settings but to no avail. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Any thoughts?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI found myself in troubles. I was trying to get dts passthrough works in many many ways with no success. Finally I (desperately) decided to try OSS rather than ALSA following this guide: [URL].. And there the things went wrong. I ended up with no sound at all so I tried to reinstall alsa again but with no luck.
basicaly what I did after following the guide was: sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils. sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base //and choose alsa
but still, for example:
$ alsamixer
puts:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start
* Setting up ALSA... [ OK ]
but no alsa process at all. $ aplay -l aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found. It seems to me like sound card drivers are gone..
I tried to install perl-tk today, and tried tcl and tk in the process. "apt-get install" is reporting success, but I can't find the commands. I expect them to be in /usr/bin, but they're not there. I've tried "clean" and "update" as well, and even rebooted, to no avail. Synaptic package manager gives the same results. This is happening on two different systems, one running koala and the other intrepid. Here's a snippet of what I've tried:
%heron 35: sudo apt-get purge tk tcl perl-tk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package tk is not installed, so not removed
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I've been trying to get a working server installation with little success. Wailing and gnashing of teeth has occurred. Auto-cranialdepilation (pulling my hair out) is in full swing and the intravenous caffeine is running out. My target is a running Ubuntu server with an e-mail server, Samba and the ability to host a few domains for friends and a couple of volunteer organisiations. All non-profit stuff. For the hosting I need something like cpanel but not actual cpanel; you seen the price of it!
I've installed postfix from the tutorial at [URL]... I think I've got ssh working, in as much as I can putty into the server. BTW, the server is physically next to my desk. Can I get email or webmin working? Can I hell! is there any kind soul out there who knows what they're doing who would be prepared to spend a bit of time puttyed in to the server helping me set the freaking thing up? I'm a sort of noob old hand. I still have a copy of the first edition of K&R and I had the pleasure of owning a Sun 3/260 for some years; wonderful machine! So I can
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rm -rf /* quite happily and know that xnix doesn't know how to make love. Trouble is... SunOS 4.1.1 and Solaris 1 are more my era.
I'm trying to synce several windows mobile devices without much success. All the instructions I've read say that synce-dccm should be installed. I can't find it (or synce-odccm) either via synaptic or using apt-get install. Has this package been re-named or incorporated into something else or just redundant? I have the repository "launchpad.net/synce/ppa/ubuntu lucid" added to my sources.
View 9 Replies View RelatedTrying to get Ubuntu to print to my Epson STYLUS SX515W, without much success. All OK with Windows but not with Linux.
Pipslite-wrapper appears to be missing. I have Googled but with no success.
would have marked the last thread as solved, but couldn't find where to do it Got it up and running, dual-boot, and no problems after scandisk, and fujitsu helped out. Now I have XP and Debian lenny. Here's where the hard part comes in, for me anyways. Had to do install without NIC, install didn't find it. I have the driver disk for it, with a linux driver on it, but I can't find anything about how to use it.
The driver file has 5 files inside it. 1) Makefile 2) sr9600.c 3) sr9600.h, 2 readme's and a file containing some .png files. I can't find a substitute driver for the card, SUPERAL semiconductor sr9600, that may be already on the stuff I can get using aptitude, so what do I do with this driver...how do I get the system to use it? I NEED networking, a tutorial or some good advice,.. I've googled everything I can think of.
I cloned with Clonezilla a partition that contains Fedora 12 installed from F12 Livecd. After I restore the partition to a another computer the grub is no more.I tried with supergrub to fix the grub but with no success.
My questions is: How do I fix my grub with the live cd(fedora), I can't use USB or DVD because the computer doesn't have any?
PackageKit popped up late last night w/ an update, so I let it do it's thing and it failed w/ the following error message
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I did some googeling and found another thread that suggested rebuilding the rpm database w/ the following cmds
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This produced new obvious errors except for when I ran 'yum update' again. It produced the following (repeatable) errors.
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I'm cautious of passing '--skip-broken' and 'rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest'
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4, I enter the command:net time set -I 192.59.196.66Where 192.59.196.66 is the IP address of a Windows Server 2008 time serverThe response is:/bin/date 071218072010.20 failed. Error was (Success)The actual clock time does not get updated. However, evidently it did really communicate with the time server on 192.59.196.66, because the value in the response 071218072010.20 does correspond to the time on the time server, albeit in the somewhat bizarre format MMDDHHMMYYYY.SS.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've just upgraded to 10.04 and even if I am able to use my two displays with my Nvidia GPU, it bugs me that I can't use basic transparency controls on my desktop (compositing in Xfce). I've searched all over google and most links say it's impossible to mix Xinerama with Compositing, while others suggest using the old Xgl implementation will do the trick. I've also read things about Xrandr and that it might be a substitute for Xinerama, but it seems Nvidia drivers doesn't support it.
So, basically, I am at the end of my wits and I wanted to ask (shout?) if anyone managed to: 1. use two displays as part of the same desktop AND use compositing (window transparency) 2. or hack the compositing feature to work with some sort of software acceleration instead of hardware acceleration
Google lists all sorts of solutions, but none conclusive. So, is there a way out of this problem, maybe by using nouveau, or Xrandr, or something else entirely?
I am trying to reset the root password of Squeeze so that I may be able to update. I forgot it. I have followed the howto Reset Root Password without success. I am getting a root prompt but for some weird reason the root commands are not found. When I type passwd, I get, "command not found". Moreover, If I try reboot and shutdown -h now, both fail.
View 2 Replies View Relatedhave tried to close ports 443,80,22 & 23 without success.Does anybody have any idea how to do this. I close them in a terminal and their still opened. I closed them in services and their still open what am I not doing right?
View 14 Replies View RelatedGood afternoon! I open software update and it find 10 updates! i go to install but it give me a messege: Code: libtool-2.4-4.fc15.i686 requires gcc = 4.6.0 : Success - empty transaction what can i do?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm testing some (selfwritten) installer scripts and I'd like to test it on several linux systems. From my script, I create a database and a user, which should have no rights but to the objects created on that database. I create that user with "grant usage on <dbname>.* to 'user'@'%' identified by After that, the user exists, but is not allowed to login with mysql client (same procedure works fine on debian systems). At first thought, I supposed, that I did a mistake on database setup, but then I realized, that I could connect from a different workstation using that user.
To me it looks very strange, that that user sees information_schema and test, but not the database, I used at user creation. From my script I check success of db and user creation by using the created user for connection and exec a 'show databases', which should show the new created db. What am I missing with mysql on Suse systems? Is my expectation wrong, did I make a mistake on database setup or what do I have to change to validate success of my script?
i'm trying to configure my dhcp server but without success. i've installed dhcpd apt-get install dhcpd-server then i've added the following line to my dhcpd.conf
host foo{
hardware ethernet 00:00:24:C9:5A: D0;
fixed-adress 169.254.81.51;
filename "pxelinux.0";
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I actually wasn't even trying to install the adapter which is the funny thing, I just finally got around to installing mandriva 2010 on my desktop and happened to have the adapter already hooked up to a usb port for my windows installation. When I got done with the installation to my amazement it got recognized and I didn't have to do a thing!
I looked into installing the adapter on my laptop which already had mandriva 2010 on it and gave up cause I didn't find any post's here that addressed the issue very well. Just thought I would pass it along for anyone who want's to try this on there computer.
Im a computer networking student in my 3rd year and most of it has been based on windows, just completed a Unix Systems Administration course at my University and decided to take the skills home with me, but I have a slight problem and Ive been racking my brains out trying to figure it out. I have 2 Networks in my home and im trying to get connectivity between the 2 networks but to no success
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