Am running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat (did an in situ upgrade from Lucid) quite happily, except for the following issue I ran into:
I place a new cdr in drive
Open as folder
Copy mp3's onto it
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I have installed a Maverick machine and was utterly annoyed by the removal of XDCMP chooser in GDM (why in the world one would do this?!). The common wisdom seemed to install xdm or wdm instead.
I did try both of them (dpkg-reconfigure gdm and select xdm or wdm), BUT none is working. The only relevant point I found in xdm log: it fails to start X correctly, where spawned X instance claims that no usable screens can be found.
At the same time, gdm starts just fine.
Was anyone successful in getting any of these running?
When booting from the netbook USB, there are two wireless connection stages:
the first appears at the "TRY/INSTALL" selection screen, and after supplying the keyring password, the connection appears to succeed.
the second appears on the desktop, after selecting "TRY"; the keyring dialogue appears & seems to work, but then the network login dialogue pops up, and refuses to connect.
Both my Acer machines connect to the same AP under Maverick and the EEE PC works in Lucid.
I recently upgraded to Maverick and am loving it. Converting over my various scripts to work on the new box I notice that my video trascoding script, which uses mencoder to re-encode video as h264, now does not work.
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mencoder $inpfile -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3:q=3 -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=22:threads=auto:subq=4:bframes=2:b_pyramid:weight_b:turbo=1 -ofps 25 -o $outfile
For a long time this has worked just fine but the command basically bombs out every time with
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FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
I tried using the medibuntu mplayer/mencoder but still no dice.
Does anyone know how I can get this important functionality back?
I recently tried to upgrade my graphics card. I had an Intel GMA 950, and upgraded to a PNY Nvidia GEForce 8400GS with 512 DDR I installed the card, and was unsuccessful in getting it to work, but while using the onboard graphics I updated the drivers in ubuntu to use the Nvidia proprietary drivers. I went into a cycle of rebooting and fiddling. booting into Ubuntu was successful with the onboard card, however I only got a command line. I used nano to change my xorg.conf from saying
Driver "nvidia". I simply deleted this portion in the hope that X11 would simply think on its feet. Onboard graphics wouldn't deliver any X session after that. I eventually got the card to work after futzing with the BIOS settings, however once I tried to boot, I got the error "init : ureadahead main process (264) terminated with status 5" after numerous upgrades, my GRUB menu has several kernels, however none of them would boot properly, including recovery sessions.
I decided to boot into a livecd to edit my xorg.conf in a Live environment, but I was unsuccessful, the LiveCD (simply Maverick Meerkat, after trying Karmic Koala) got stuck in a loop of not being able to detect media in /dev/sr0, which is very puzzling. So now I'm stuck with a computer with a functioning video card and nothing else.
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Given error message:
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cdrdao returned an unknown error (code 1).
The used device is a hp cd writer, but I get the same error on the other drive as well.
Debugging output:
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Devices
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burning a img to a disc?
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It started when I woke up to find that the Unity dock was misbehaving -- none of the icons were appearing, though there was something at the top that looked like a couple of the "flattened" icons that are usually at the bottom. I can't remember what I did in the terminal or gnome-system-monitor to try and fix this, but I think it was unity --reset. (Should've been --replace, I know that now. Unless I was barking up the wrong tree altogether) The result was that the dock disappeared altogether along with the tops of all windows, much as has happened in the past when metacity crashed. But now alt-f2 wasn't working, and while I had a terminal open (and in front of all the other windows), I couldn't type anything into it. (I could, however, right-click and start a new terminal, which didn't work either.)
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Im getting very slow DVD burning. Quite often in Turbojet2 or using growisofs or whatever, Im getting 0.5x DVD burning speeds.
I set the burn speed to 12x on Turbojet, but it hovers from 0.5x to maybe bursts of 5x.
I will get maybe 9 minute burn times in Brasero for single DVDs but 15 to 25 minutes in Turbojet2 and longer using growisofs or other CLI burning when doing multiple DVDs.
Im running 11.04 on a box w/ SATA drives, SATA DVD-RW's 12gb of Ram an Intel I-5 4 core processor
I have played w/ hdparm settings but no luck...I tried the below
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I've tried writing music files such as .mp3, .wma, and .wav and play them in my car, but none of them work, and when I put the CD in my computer again, none of the music files are there!I've used Brasero and K3B to burn them, as well as the default program that just opens up the cd folder, asks you to copy the files and then gives an option to burn them, and I've looked at past threads but none of them seem to have the same problem as me (or else the suggestions don't help at all).
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DBus error
This is using both Brasero and K3b, the disk stops writing about halfway through on Brasero and a tenth of the way through on K3b. I'm just trying to burn a data DVD and have tried low & high speeds.
Latest version of 64bit Ubuntu
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