Ubuntu :: CPU Maxing Out Easily?
Dec 16, 2010
I recently bought an old desktop off ebay to give to my dad with lubuntu installed on it. He doesnt do much - just the usual web browsing and storing photos - so i went with something reasonably old and cheap - 2.6ghz celeron (ugh I Know) emachine (again ugh, but I thought it would the job). I made the RAM up to 512Mb and installed lubuntu.
Unfortunately when I installed flash the video was all jumpy when watching anything online. So I looked into the onboard graphics and found that there are driver issues with some of that series. So I bought a graphics card (NVIDIA Geforce 5500 128mb - PCI cos the lame MB doesnt have PCI -e or AGP).
Sadly the video is still jumpy and lame. I've tried it in firefox as well so this isnt a Chromium issue. The video is watchable if you download it and then play through VLC (which it wasnt before the NVIDIA card). Xfce4 Taskmanager shows CPU useage maxing when I use Chromium to watch flash but RAM staying around half used.
I know I've been a tool buying an emachine - particularly with a Celery processor and no AGP or PCI-e (ebay is a cruel mistress at times) but Im appealing for any help people might have to sort this out. Im hoping there might be something I can do.
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May 10, 2010
I am running Lucid on this machine, but I have had this problem on every machine with Snort. When I awaken the system from suspend or hibernation, snort pegs out one of the CPUs.
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Mar 8, 2010
This is an urgent problem. I removed my propreitary ati display drivers because I had to update them but I don't know what happened. Now I can't boot. The screen shows the Ubuntu splash screen but then the login screen does not come on. I get a blank screen. Worst of all, I had removed Recovery entries from the grub so I can't boot into recovery mode so easily. It's urgent. I don't want to reinstall with my exams a week away.
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Jun 5, 2010
How to File Share in Ubuntu 10.04 Easily and using GUI's only.Disclaimer: Sharing files in this way is not secure; so please make sure you only do this on a private network that has been properly secured. Otherwise any user on the network can access and modify your shared files; you have been warned!
1. "Applications" menu ->"Ubuntu Software Center" -> in the search box type "Samba" then install "Samba".Because even though you enabled file share and tried to share the files 10.04 seems to not actually install "Samba". Plus this installs the "Samba" GUI.)2. This step was removed to prevent confusion.3."System" menu -> "Administration" -> "Samba". Enter your password. In the GUI that opens up choose "Preferences" menu -> "Server Settings" then the "Security" tab change the authentication mode to share and the guest account to your user name account. This prevents permission problems later on.4. Choose the "Add a Samba Share"; the green plus icon; browse to the directory you wish to share. Place a check mark in "Writable" and "Visible". Then on the "Access" tab choose "Allow access to everyone".
5. Press OK; now your should be able to see the share from the other computers just choose "Places" menu -> "Network" then either the computer name if it shows up or select "Windows Network" -> "WORKGROUP" ->omputer Name then the Shared folder.Quote:2. Share the selected folder via natuilus, right-click on the folder and choose "Sharing Options" or "Properties" -> "Sharing" Tab. This may be an unnecessary step but at least we know Nautilus has applied the proper permissions for us; on the pop-up choose "Automatically Update Permissions".I hope that this helps as many of you as possible. If anyone has any updates please let me know. I am glad to see that this can finally be done all using GUI's now but it still should be as simple as sharing the folder with the "Sharing Options" selection in Nautilus. There is still work to be done on this in Ubuntu.
I am going to jump on Launch Pad and look for all of the bugs that I can find related to these issues and see if I can contribute what I have learned and maybe I can try to organize some of the bugs to get a collective fix in the works. I will post back any updates.Please If you used my method please note this is not the way it is supposed to be done in 10.04 so you are affected by the bug. Please go to this bug and be counted.
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Sep 28, 2010
I wanted to set up a small file/print server using Ubuntu. I'm planning on using a spare nano ITX board running C7 processor with 2GB and an 80GB drive for right now. I've set up desktop and systems and like using KDE. I've read installing KDE and X Server and have had problems running on 10.04. I can run command line but wanted to know if there are there any good GUI programs that are reasonably easy to install on server 10.04?
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Jul 31, 2010
What do i need to read or watch to start using Linux (any distribution) easily?
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May 7, 2011
I upgraded to 11.04 recently
I run 2 monitors, 1800x1200 and 1720x1180 approx (not exactly sure, but they are different)
I like to have many windows open on both screens.
The system keeps switching windows to fullscreen mode when I want to be able to see 5 or 6 partial windows on each screen.
It seems that if I align the edge of a window to the top of the screen, it switches to fullscreen mode, which is the last thing I want it to do.
Funnily enough, if I move a window to the edge of the screen, I want to be able to see the other windows on that screen. If I want fullscreen mode I hit the fullscreen icon; otherwise I want the size to stay the same. I dont want the window manager ever to arbitrarily give me fullscreen mode.
How can I stop this unwanted behaviour which is new to 11.04 ?
I have to admit that for my purposes the classic desktop is head and shoulders better than the default 11.04 desktop, but how did the release process manage to trash the earlier release's excellent desktop. Was Beta feedback totally ignored ? Rhetorical question, but hopefully someone up there listens.
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May 26, 2010
Is there any easy way to do this from within yum? Maybe by enabling a repository for that file or some such? Would like to keep up to date with wine releases.
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Jun 18, 2010
i often compare two different files which differ slightly in there contents can you suggest me any tool or utility which will make my task easier.
At present i am using diff, sdiff command to compare the files any better option than this ?
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Aug 9, 2011
When you have boot troubles, you will often be asked to run Boot-Info-Script in order to see a summary of your boot parameters. Standard method is a little difficult, so I made a little GUI to do it very easily :
1) Boot on Ubuntu live-CD or live-USB. (or Boot-Repair-Disk which will lead you automatically to step 4)
2) Connect internet
3) Open a terminal and type :
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && gksu boot-repair
4) Click on "Create a BootInfo summary":
5) Done !
Now just indicate (or copy/paste) the URL that appears to people who help you on this forum.
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Jul 17, 2010
I own Fedora Core 12 and an HP scanner. I want to make digital copies of all the pictures I took a few years ago. I have a lot so I tried scanning five at a time thinking I could cut and paste into smaller images like with MS Paint on Windows. HPLIP 3.9.12 wouldn't let me modify the scans so I tried GIMP 2.6.10. GIMP 2.6.10 is a nightmare! When I opened my scan of five pictures I had trouble opening a new image. Then I had to specify the size of the new image. The when I cut and pasted I couldn't rotate. Then when I figured out how to rotate my image was too small.
Then I tried scanning just one picture but HPLIP left a lot of blank space. I tried cropping out the blank space with GIMP but the image size was the same with the blank space. I don't want to post photos to Flickr that are mostly empty space.I wish I could show you examples but the forum won't let me post them.Any ideas or suggestions for a program for Fedora Core 12 that's got the functions and features of MS Paint?
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Sep 3, 2011
When I asked about filesystems with compression I got recommendation to try ZFS. Looks like it worth trying, however I find tools that manage ZFS (zfs, zpool) quite overcomplexified - you need to create some volume, then add it, then create filesystem on it. And finally it suddenly created things in root directory like /qqq/test and it uses /var/run/zfs/zfs_socket (strange for a filesystem).
How to use ZFS (with FUSE) without it's complicated things with volumes, just as good filesystem with compression, something like mount -o loop image.zfs /mnt/qqq -t zfs-fuse?
How to setup ZFS as non-root? FUSE usually means "user can use it too" (example: ntfs-3g). I expect something like this:
Can ZFS be more usual FUSE filesystem that I can add to /etc/fstab and user can install and use on its own?
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Aug 26, 2011
Is there a tool or tutorial to build a distro based on mint/ubuntu/debian?Git, scripts, and tools, small compilations for branding are OK. Compiling kernel, x11, gnome, compiz, etc. is BAD unless really required. Specifically, I'm looking for a way to have some applications installed by default, change logos/about boxes, change theme, configure what compiz options are, and add firmware drivers (connect to the Internet to download wireless adapter driver? <- headache, gotta find a lan cable now ...), and still have the liveCD install method. I'd like it to be based on linux mint, but I only want a few tools from it (update manager, software manager, flash, media codecs), so it's ok if it's ubuntu/debian with those mint tools added back in.
I saw some options, too complex, and others too simple. Not looking for a "learning experience" like LFS which gives me a horrible linux build if I don't do something exactly right. Nor any of those tools which are just package pickers and don't do enough. suse studio looked about right(maybe tad too easy), but was RPM based, not deb based.
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Apr 11, 2010
I'm trying to switch my photo collection from F-spot to Digikam. Things have gone surprisingly well, considering I'm running a GNOME system. I have ~2000 photos with a hierarchal tag system to categorize them. I've come to grips with the fact that Digikam won't be able to read this tag hierarchy, and will completely flatten it.
My real problem is that I cannot easily drag tags around to recreate my hierarchy. Digikam only lets me drag one tag at a time (instead of allowing me to ctrl-select or shift-select multiple tags simultaneously), and when I release that tag, a popup appears, requiring me to click "Move Here" before the tag actually goes where I dropped it. Is there any way to speed up tag management in Digikam?
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Jun 4, 2010
I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.4 with Ubuntu 10.04 but I find the default highlight colours extremely hard to read when new mail arrives in a folder.
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Jul 4, 2010
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Apr 11, 2011
Tired of installing ndiswrapper and everything to set up a wireless card? Try this!(might only work with Broadcom) Go to System > Administration > Additional Drivers. If you know the name of the brand of it (mine was Broadcom) it should come up. Install the driver. Tada! You've installed the driver simply!
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May 12, 2011
My usb stick will not allow me to easily copy and paste files on to it, or delete them once I no longer want them on the drive. Its owner is root. How can I change the owner? At the moment it is loading as a stylesheet in media/usb0.
The file is transferring at a very low speed. 74mb in 4 minutes
I suspect I will do better if I set up the drive via fstab. What entry should I put in fstab for a USB stick drive?
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May 19, 2011
I have noticed and this now worries me, if I export a KeePassX xml file then open it with a text editor I can see all my �private� details.Just tested it on my old desktop with Slitaz and open the exported file with leafpad text editor and I can see my details just the same.Previously I used RoboForm and when viewing an exported file in the same way you could not make out any of my details. Is KeePassX designed this way or have I not used KeePassX correctly.I have posted this on KeePassX forum and emailed them direct with no response so far.Ubuntu 11.04.
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Jan 4, 2010
I've used dvd+rw-format -format=full /dev/sr0 and K3B to format a blank DVD RW.I reinsert the disk and it's not seen or auto-mounted as writeable media. In the past, I've written one file to a blank DVD RW in Windows XP, insert the disk back into Linux and I can use Dolphin to read and write to the disk as though it had been auto mounted as a removable storage media device in KDE4.Is there a solution to use a blank DVD RW as an easily accessible, writeable media in Linux?
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Jul 25, 2010
I reinstall OpenSUSE (For whatever reasons) where I prefer having VLC as my default video player, for every media type (.wmv, .mkv, .avi, .mpg).
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This should be way easier than it is (I'm computer literate, but can you imagine a new user trying to change these settings?)
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Apr 16, 2010
The support unit here at uni doesn't support linux. Only Windows and Mac OS. And I can't quite figure how to get the printing to work. For windows I have to go to:
Code:
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Jan 13, 2010
I have been scouring the internet looking for a good solution to reading .pdb eBooks on Linux.It seems that there isn't one.Could you perhaps recommend a good app to either convert the file easily into something readable or (more preferably) an app that can read them?
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Feb 3, 2010
I've seen many, many different solutions for how to change the GRUB boot order. Search no more. This is by far the easiest, safest way to do that.
Open your terminal and type in the following:
sudo apt-get install startupmanager
When that is done go to your control panel and you'll have a new icon that says Startup Manager. Every thing you'll need work with your GRUB menu.
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Jun 8, 2011
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I've been using rsync to keep backups of my home folder, so I've got the data side covered. But I don't really want to spend the next couple of weeks re-installing all the software, printers etc all over again. So is there a quick, easy way of replicating the old drive with partitions, VB, etc (I'm not that good at using the terminal) ?
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Nov 29, 2010
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Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Removes the tarball from the previous execution.
rm -rf /backup/data/*.tar.gz
[code].....
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Aug 14, 2010
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Jan 6, 2010
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