I have Ubuntu 10.10 and turned it on after enabling my nvidia video card, but instead of opening regularly, it went to a black screen that said the following. Ubuntu 10.10 Inspiron8200 ttyl
Inspiron8200 login: I can login but this is only like the terminal (or maybe like the recovery console?) (I can only type and receive text) How do I start Ubuntu like normal?
Has anyone tried to run Hildon desktop environment on a regular PC? I am considering adding Hildon into my Gnome Karmic install. PC details are listed in my signature.
It sucks having this netbook remix setup, not able to do much is there a we=ay to install the regular gnome desktop? I can add the regular menu but what happens when i delete the menu for unr
[URL] my desktop accidently become like this: Screenshot-1.png i can't find the favourites, internet, system, etc to start the application...what should i do to return the desktop with default setting..
so I installed openSUSE 11.3 KDE and fooled around with it and the Plasma Netbook Workspaces and am now back with the regular KDE. Unfortunately something I have done has now caused me to not be able to do simple tings like change the wallpaper, or add Widgets to the desktop. Everything seems to "technically" work, so I suspect that it was a configuration somewhere that I messed up.
Is there a directory or directories I can delete and then log out and back in which will create the environment with default settings? I've done this with Gnome and Xfce when I've really messed it up and it has fixed things a number of times, but I am not sure where KDE stores their config files. I believe is it openSUSE 11.3 with the KDE version that came with it and it was installed from a LiveCD.
I've set up a user account for friends & colleagues that does NOT require a login password. Unfortunately, in this OS some things don't work unless you login -- sudo Must regular users have AND use Root's password?
I am some LinuxUNIX history but still consider my self a newbie.I know Microsoft OS well and am more comfortable with that but willing to learn Linux as well.I have a CentOS 5.5 Server I am using to Host over 18 other sites with a PERL / Web based application.The application and hosting are still working but since the CentOS updates I ran this morning my Session (I think that is the correct word) will only load a black desktop with the top menu bar only having the terminal icon and the bottom having a desktop icon; whereas prior to this update the default CentOS blue backdrop with white flower pattern and Applications, Places, System with the terminal icon and other icons displayed and the clock was off to the right.I think this is the Gnome GUI?
Also On Friday 6-24-11 I added a device line to the /etc/fstab so that my CD/DVD device would load up at boat time. I would not think this to be causing the problem.Please advise me on how to get back my regular GUI interface for this Desktop.
An ubuntu-11.04 laptop is set to turn on the screensaver after 5 minutes of inactivity, and power management is set to blank the display after 15 minutes of inactivity. When the screen goes blank, you're supposed to be able to move the mouse to return to your Gnome desktop. This works sometimes, sometimes not. When it doesn't, moving the mouse doesn't eliminate the black screen, although I can see the mouse cursor. ctrl+alt+del does nothing, neither do alt+tab, alt+esc or ctrl+alt+esc. ctrl+alt+f1-12 work as they usually do, so I can "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart" from one of the TTYs, or via ssh.
I tested just now with setting the screensaver and power management display blanking to 1 minutes. After a minute the screen went blank (backlight on), and then after a second or two black (backlight off), and moving the mouse returned to Gnome as it should. So I don't know why sometimes it doesn't. Two questions:
1- Which program can I run, or which service can I restart, to return to Gnome without having to kill gdm and lose all open windows?
I have this problem that Xorg CPU usage spikes to between %20-%40, a little more than once every second - constantly. When this happens, everything on the system slows down, video, scrolling through pages, etc. plasma-desktop does the same, at the same time as Xorg, though uses less CPU. Switching off Desktop effects makes no difference. The spikes starts just after KDE is up and running after boot. I'm running 11.3, KDE 4.4.4 release 3, 64bit on a desktop and 32bit on a laptop, both have the same problem. I have searched the internet, but cannot find anything related to this, please help!
I have been using Opensuse 11.4 for the past 3 months and for the past 2 weeks the system freezes regularly due to multiple errors.Iam using Kernel 2.6.27.6-0.7-desktop under KDE4 with regular updates
Errors 1 & 2 occured during Normal mode 1) Aug 28 15:11:52 linux kernel: [ 1153.000036] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010 Aug 28 15:11:52 linux kernel: [ 1153.000036] [drm:i915_report_and_clear_eir] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
I'm trying to figure out the syntax needed to run a command that will spew out output (which I don't need) but go back to allowing me to run other commands without closing that program.Basically I run:
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./utserver
and it starts and gives output but I want to run other commands without needing to open a new tab or close that program.
Is there anyway to make it so I don't have to use it? And just use the regular one which shows what Os's to choose from, like on most Windows machines when you dual boot etc?
Since installing ubuntu 10.10 in january, my Openoffice (it seems mainly calc) regularly crashes. It always manage to keep file recovery active (even it's not always the latest). There is no really identified pattern except basically editing cells
my packages are currently: ii openoffice.org-base-core 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1.1 office product ivity suite -- shared library
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I just try to reset my preferences (move $HOME/.openoffice.org to .old) and I will see if it changes something.
Is there any way to return default theme, in 9.10? because i have installed full mac theme and i really messed everything up, but now i'm bored, so is there any way restore everything easy?
I need the command for returning my ubuntu netbook remix (newest version) to default settings. The problem is that when I installed a theme, the next time I booted the OS the screen starts blinking and when I enter my admin password, no icons appear. My laptop is Dell 1525.
I'm a italian boy that have a problem with ubuntu. I install ubuntu on my netbook with wubi but now I can't return on windows. When I restar my pc i see GNU GRUB version 1.98-1ubuntu6
I select the part for to go in XP Windows NT/2000/XP (loader) (on/der/sda1) but I see the black windows with the script error: unknows command 'drivemap' Try (hd0,0): NTFS5: And I return to black windows that allows me to choose the part Ubuntu.
i made upgrade(not distro) on my ubuntu 10.10. i took very long but i was not concerned. However i opened my laptop again it could not boot normally. Therefore i ran in recovery mode in failsafe graphic it stopped at "running scriptss in rc2.d/ took 2 seconds". I safe my important file from command window in recovery mode but i can not return back my system.
I have installed ubuntu on a specific partition. installedwindows and mandriva on two other partitions. ow i would like to go back to ubuntu. is there any way i can do this unfortunately i have no bootloader installed installed on the ubuntu partition..is there any way to install[ a bootloader on the mbr or elsewhere to retrieve the ubuntu installation. preferably without live cd
I dual boot with XP, My upgrade to 11.04 has been two weeks of FUBAR. I want the 10.04 LTS again. With the 10.04 disk in, I get to the point of "Prepare Disk Space"; it shows XP-pro 81Gb and Ubuntu 11.04 75Gb. There I must choose side-by-side, Use Entire Disk, or Specify partitions Manually. My Question/Problem> The new 11.04 kernel seems so incompatible with my system that I wonder if I need to delete or reformat. Am I likely to have success if I just tell it to do side-by-side.
I am not sure if i missed a post somewhere, but my search didn't turn up anything. Does anyone know if it is possible to install the Ubuntu Remix on a laptop that doesn't have an Atom processor? I have a small form-factor laptop, but it isn't a Netbook, that I would love to install Ubuntu Remix on, but for some reason it hangs when I try and install it. Does anyone know if it is possible to install this release on a standard laptop? Are there links somewhere that I could follow?
I switched to Kubuntu with the upgrade to Lucid. After a couple updates, I started getting a "Gnome looking" unlock screen on my desktop at start-up. I get the regular KDE keyring password request and a second that looks like the Gnome keyring. I don't know how this happened. I checked in Synaptic and found the gnome-keyring was installed. Can I uninstall this or will that cause problems?