I have a Medion Akoya E1212 netbook (which is an ALDI rebrand of the MSI Wind netbook) and naturally I'm trying to get the longest battery life possible Already running Ubuntu (Lucid) Netbook Edition (though Moblin seems interesting too) and of course keeping a close look at powertop.One of the things powertop can do, is disable unused USB devices [with the 'U' key]. There is, however, one persistent USB device that keeps popping up in powertop's list no matter how often I press 'U': my SD-card drive (which is apparently internally connected via USB). And it appears in the list regardless of whether I have inserted an SD-card in it or not.
When I use Nautilus to navigate to computer://, I can see the SD-card drive as an icon named "USB Generic Multicard", sitting next to my internal harddisk. I can rightclick and "eject" it, causing the icon to disappear, and the entry in powertop's list disappears as well.My question, is there a way to make sure that the "USB Generic Multicard" USB device doesn't mount at all during startup? [Or, preferably that it detects whether an SD card it present (rarely) to decide whether to mount or not].And if anyone knows the command-line command to "eject" the USB Generic Multicard device, that would also be great cause it would save me starting Nautilus every time (which is slow).
I have Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome. Whenever I put in a blank CD/DVD an icon on the desktop appears named "Blank CD/DVD" and a window appears asking me what I want to do with it. How do I disable the window and the icon from the desktop?
i cant download and install anything. it appears i need to install linux-image-2.6.31-21-generic (version 2.6.31-21.59) but when i try to i get You have 1 broken package on your system! Use the "Broken" filter to locate it. can someone tell me how to fix a broken package
I've just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a USb drive, using the 4gb persistence option, and tried to install all available updates. The process went smoothly until it tried to update the kernel, and it just refuses to do that. I now only have 1.5gb of space left, that might possibly be causing the problem?Here's the terminal output of sudo dpkg --configure -a
Code: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a Setting up linux-image-2.6.35-25-generic (2.6.35-25.44) ...
recently I upgraded to test Ubuntu Natty. It's very unstable, so I don't recommend you trying it yet.
Anyways, the thing is that when I upgraded it build two new kernels 2.6.38-8-generic-pae and 2.6.38-8-generic. For some reason when I boot with 2.6.38-8-generic-pae nothing happens, and I can boot only with 2.6.38-8-generic. So I have a couple of questions:
1) What's the difference between the pae kernel and the generic kernel
Just installed the patches/upgrades for the 2.6.35.30 kernel. Ubuntu will not boot without me typing "y" and hitting enter and later hitting the enter key again. Just have a blank screen unless I do this. Discovered what to do by booting into recovery mode. Had to make a display selection. Just guess at the enter key the second time the boot process stopped. I new to Ubuntu so don't know where to look in the logs to provide additional information to help trouble shoot the problem. If some one can guide me as to where to look I'll post log info. Hope this is the right place to post this. If I need to make a bug report let me know.
Forgot to add: HP Pavalion dv5000 (dv5020us to be specific). AMD Turion64 processor. ATI Radeon Mobility 200M video.
I did an update recently and it won't continue booting past a certain point - which I think is rather strange, the last message I can manage to see is:
Code: * Starting init crypto dicks...
No. That's not a typo. I couldn't believe my own eyes - I took a picture: [URL]
I can guarantee you this is not a joke. I suspect my video card is aging on me as I get a 'London Pound" symbol on my CLI terminal sometimes.
Anyway, that's not the real issue for me. I cannot start into 2.6.31-17, but I can start into 2.6.31-16 - is anyone else having this problem?
Edit: Restarting doesn't give me the crypto dicks thing but I still get another common error:
Code: init: ureadahead-other main process (###) terminated with status 4
I've played about with Live CD's and sort of got it working on a PS3, but that's about it. Now, my problem.
Basically, what happened is that I installed Ubuntu 9.10, and then I installed whatever updates it wanted, and then ...17-generic pops up, but doesn't do anything other than load up a terminal type thing full screen.
Here's everything GRUB says.
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I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be part of the updates I did, but to be completely honest I'm not even slightly certain.
I don't know if there's any more info you'd need from me about my computer, but if there is could you tell me how to find it.
So the questions I'm asking really: Is meant to be an updated version? and if so, How do I make it do what it's meant to do?
After installing Ubuntu my Windows XP BSOD's on startup. I have posted in a Windows forum, but they seem to be terrified that I've used the word "Ubuntu" or maybe I'm being plain impatient. Do you know of anywhere which specialises in dual-boot problems or something? Thanks again
some weeks ago I've installed ubuntu 10.04 beta desktop, in that version the module sg was present using modprobe (the sg.ko file was not present). I need the sg module because of some scsi driver that require it. Today I've installed the 10.04 server and modprobe sg returns a not found. I would like to install it or make it visible as in the beta version.
I reported a bug at [URL].., then I had been asked to test the latest generic kernel in order to test whether the bug exist in latest kernel or not. I had read the information at [URL]... I installed the most current version of generic kernel. After that, I restart my computer and try to use the latest installed kernel. Then, the laptop freeze. Then, I restart my computer by turning off and on again, select the older kernel, successfully boot into Ubuntu to post this thread. What can I do since I am required to test the latest generic kernel?
I installed Mint 9 and directly after installation there were updates to download and install, which I did. One of the updates is a newer kernel, 2.6.32-24-generic. When I manually install the nVidia driver 256.44 and restart gdm it works. When I reboot I land in low resolution, have to remove and re-install the older (195.36) driver through "Hardware Drivers". Somehow the new kernel and the latest nVidia don't match together. Am I the only one suffering from this or are there more people with this problem,and what to do about it?
Trying to compile Kernel 2.6.35 on Ubuntu 9.10 (2.6.31-14-generic).
got: The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h"" does not match current version: "2.6.35-xxx" Please correct this make[1]:***[debian/stamp/install/linux-image-2.6.35-xxx] Error 2 make[1]:***leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.35' make:*** [kernel_image] Error 2
Can any one tell me what should I do? Is this Ok for using the compiled vmlinux image?where can I find the correstponding initrd file if this kernal compile is Ok?
I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 Server edition to Karmic Koala 9.10 server.Earlier when I ran uname -r it showed: KernelVersion-serverNow the current version I've upgraded to shows 2.6.31-20-generic-pae.Should the Ubuntu server edition be using a generic-pae kernel?
My sound was working in the past, but since I upgraded to kernel 2.6.31-20, it's no longer working. I am using Ubuntu on a Macbook and followed instructions from the Macbook 6,1 wiki on [URL]... I just installed the lastest alsa-driver using the following commands:
I have done a completely fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04. As soon as I installed it and checked for updates there were a few, but I got an error for the package linux-libc-dev.
I should make it known that since I got this error about 2 days ago, there have been several more updates issued for other packages, but I still get the same error for this package. Everything else installs fine and currently linux-libc-dev is the only package in my list. When I try to install it via the update manager I get a popup window with the following error message:
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E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-libc-dev_2.6.32-22.33_i386.deb: unable to stat `./usr/include/asm-generic/mman.h' (which I was about to install)
To get more information I also ran it from the terminal:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Quote:
(Reading database ... 147293 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-libc-dev 2.6.32-21.32 (using .../linux-libc-dev_2.6.32-22.33_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement linux-libc-dev ...
[code]....
This package provides headers from the Linux kernel.These headers are used by the installed headers for GNU glibc and other system libraries. They are NOT meant to be used to build third-party modules for your kernel. Use linux-headers-* packages for that.
bash shell is deafult in my ubuntu and i need to use csh shell to write a script for Generic mapping tools.Can use csh while bash is still the deafult shell
I installed Ubutnu 9.10 Server on my Dell Server for LAMP & OpenSSH server. After the install was complete, I noticed the the kernel installed on the server was 2.26.31-14-generic instead of 2.26.31-14-server.I am wondering why would generic kernel be installed from ubuntu-server 9.10 cd? And how do go about chaning to server kernel? Or do I even need to do that? Would generic kernel work as server kernel ?
I'm trying to build a live cd, and would like to know what video drivers work with both ATI, and Nvdia.
My current live cd installs the nvdia drivers, but the system I'm using it on has an ATI card. I don't get it. I also can't figure out How I broke the run in safe graphics mode option, but it's no longer available.
I did the kernel update via Update Manager today. Unfortunately , after this , disaster happened whereby sh.grub> prompt appeared on screen.
I got no idea how to rescue or repair the grub. I installed Ubuntu 9.10 in my E: under Windows 7 partition and labeled as "ubuntu". It has dual boot capability.
uestion by saying that I don't know anything about how video drivers work under Ubuntu or Linux in general.My situation is as follows: I have installed Ubuntu on a portable hard drive for use on multiple computers, so as such, I chose not to install drivers for a specific video card as I can't be sure of the hardware of the computers I will be using it on. Everything was working fine, but while setting some wine games up, I have managed to "break" my video drivers/video config so now some games give me an error. I have been told that the quickest way to get rid of this error is to reinstall video drivers, but I am lost, as I can't find out what drivers, if any, I have installed. So my question is: how could I go about resetting the configuration and generic drivers that came with the Lucid?
This week my ubuntu 10.10 was updated via update center. I obtained the new kernel headers 2.6.35-23-generic but now I can't boot using this kernel version and I have to select manually 2.6.35-22-generic in grub. I can see the ubuntu plymouth splash screen but it never rise gnome. where are the boot logs and how to activate them, In /var/log/ I have "boot" file but is empty and in "boot.log" I cant see any usefull information (I have BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes in /etc/defaul/bootlogd).
When I select Ubuntu from the booting option. A black screen appears with a cursor at the top left of the screen. It appears for few seconds. How canI remove this to make my booting fast?
I run computer janitor and it now tells me I no longer need this package (10 MB) linux-headers-2.6.35-25 generic as it was updated last week to -27. Should I trust this and remove it safely?
