Ubuntu Installation :: Strategy For Fixing 10.10 Upgrade That Went Bad

Jun 22, 2011

Was running 10.10 64-bit on Thinkpad X201. I mistakenly clicked on upgrade this morning (really meant to just do a plain old update)... I tried to stop the process, but nothing that I did could get me out of the upgrade loop... so I eventually was forced to go ahead. Machine boots into 11.04; however, keyboard and mouse doesn't work. I have an external keyboard/mouse combo and that will intermittently work, but questionable. I was able to turnoff Unity; however, Classic doesn't seem to work with either external keyboard or laptop builtin.

My root and home are on separate partitions. I have a very fresh copy of home backed up on a separate drive. I don't have a recent backup of root. If I could get Natty working with Classic (including minimize/maximize) I'd be OK...I'd be also OK with going back to 10.10 if I could do it without too much pain. Meanwhile, I'm using another machine with Windows 7 so that I can at least do some work and come back to resurrecting my machine after I've had a bit of a timeout..

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OpenSUSE Install :: Overall Install-upgrade Strategy?

Dec 30, 2010

lets start with mentioning that I am a very satisfied user of a fileserver with a OpenSuSe 11.1 environment, implemented in october-november 2009. The server has the following charateristics:
Hardware Core AMD Semprom LE-1250 on Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2H Mobo

1 GB memory
2,5 inch 360 GB systemdisk
3x 1TB data disks in RAID 5 configuration
Functionality used
Software raid (RAID 5)

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Ubuntu :: Fixing MBR After Windows Installation

Aug 17, 2011

without thinking, reinstalled my windows installation after already having the dual-boot set up and it wrote over the GRUB with Windows MBR. I let my girlfriend's friend borrow the disc before this and decided to just wait it out. Then, when getting the disc back, I carelessly forgot it at their house and have never been able to retrieve it, nor do I think that I ever will.

At this point my only live discs either only have GRUB1 or are corrupted. My only tools now are a netbook with a wubi installation of Xubuntu(no CD drive) and a 1GB flash drive, it seems. Any suggestions on how to access my ubuntu installation?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Adjusting Or Fixing The Size?

Aug 9, 2010

Ahm my question is, how can i adjust or redo the size of my hard disk in ubuntu? i mean i have the windowsXP OS then decided to install ubuntu 10.04 so i install it inside windows... i forgot to adjust the size or something?? because every time i boot ubuntu my free storage was 5 gb... but the real size of my HDD is 112gb in HOST directory but when im looking in home directory/home folder its shows that 5gb remaining, so what am i going to do? And what is my mistake?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Fixing Failed Installation Of 10.04?

Sep 7, 2010

I have a dual boot PC, tried to upgrade to Lucid Lynx and the upgrade failed. Can't boot into it at all. Windows XP still works fine. I have the live CD for a re-install now. I read this post but don't understand the difference between the instructions for the partitions. Have posted my screen shots below.First screen shows that I have 10.04 and offers me the option to partition further.Screenshot 1 I choose manual partition and then it gives me the right sized partitions. . Then in screenshot 2 I edit and choose the mount point as /, is that right? (screen shot 3). Do I then change that option again to choose /home? because otherwise it takes me straight to screenshot 4, the user name set up.There's No Custom User Title Here

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Ubuntu Installation :: Fixing Grub2 Boot Changes To Windows Drive?

May 3, 2010

I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on an external hard drive (USB connected) and I can no longer boot my Windows XP(SP3) from my internal C Drive. Grub gives me the list of boot choices, but when I choose the C drive, I just get these error messages:

GEOM ERROR
For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI fast ethernet controller v2.13 (020326)
Client MAC ADDR: 00 13 D3 07 FD F5 GUID: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
PXE-E53: No boot filename received
PXE-NOF: Exiting PXE ROM

(The version of Grub is 1.98-lubuntu5). I don't have a Windows System CD to boot from, but is there something I can do from within Ubuntu itself?

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Debian Installation :: Fixing Grub2 On A EFI GPT System?

Nov 10, 2015

I installed Debian 8.2 first, then Windows 10 over it (I know, backwards, but I didn't wish to lose my customizations on Debian up to that point, and didn't realize until later that I wanted to Dual Boot). Running from a LiveCD of Debian 8.2:

Code: Select allsudo fdisk -l
Device - Start - End - Sectors - Size - Type
/dev/sda1 - 2048 - 116211711 - 116209664 - 55.4G - Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2  - 116211712 - 116244479 - 32768 - 16M - Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3  - 116244480 - 232421375 - 116176896 - 55.4G - Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4  - 232421376 - 234440703 - 2019328 - 986M - EFI System

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That's where I am stuck. I'm a bit new to Debian & Linux still and I've never dabbled with Grub2, I imagine I can't mount /dev/sda4 because in chrooted into /dev/sda1 and it can't see /dev/sda4 at this point (what I'm thinking anyway). So I try:

Code: Select allroot@debian:/# fdisk -l

fdisk: cannot open /proc/partitions: No such file or directory/I imagine that's what it is, but I don't know a way around that. I want to dual boot Windows 10 & Debian 8.2 on a UEFI (or EFI?) system with a GPT Disk. No guide I have found for fixing Grub2 or getting Dual Booting working with Debian then Windows installed have covered both things at the same time. I just have to be special I guess.

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Fedora Installation :: Fixing Dual Boot So XP Can Run?

Dec 27, 2009

I am a relative newbie to Fedora 12, altho did start with OpenSuse. I installed XP first with the games that couldn't run via wine. Then I installed Fedora but I must've done something wrong as although Fedora runs fine with a few personal tweaks with everything I want I can't access XP as it is no longer an option in the boot up. What do you suggest I do. I have a system rescue cd ready but don't know how to access the boot or change it.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Fixing Grub - Volume Hangs With A Non-blinking Cursor In The Upper Left?

Mar 11, 2010

I set my drives up with MY boot loader, and I boot several OSes.I installed Ubuntu and told it to place grub on the / drive, which is where I always put it with any other install and it works fine.I find now that despite telling the install where to put it, you guys have taken it upon yourselves to alter the MBR of the volume ANYWAY!

SO, what I need to do is re-install grub, but I see that you also have no repair facility on this disc either. All I want to do is use MY boot loader. Currently, when I point at the / volume it just hangs with a non-blinking cursor in the upper left.No other Linux installs I have performed over the years do this. I want the drive to boot by merely pointing my bootloader at that volume.It always has in the past, so what did you guys change? I want NO action on my MBR, but I DO want a working grub on the actual root volume, which is NOT the first volume on the drive.

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Fedora Installation :: "fixing Recursive Fault But Reboot Is Needed

Mar 29, 2010

I'm new to fedora, but had installed it once before on machines for my class. I am now trying to install fedora on my PC at home, but every time I run the disk and chose install from the main screen all I get is a bunch of text and then it says "Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed"

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Ubuntu :: Strategy To Schedule Rsnapshot If Pc Is Not Always On?

Jun 20, 2010

I just did my first rsnapshot backup of my /home/ to an external harddisk. When I am not at my computer for a couple of hours, I always shut it down. Therefore, there are no predictable hours of the day where I know that my computer is running. So, how should I schedule/crontab my rotating rsnapshot backups?

Is anyone using rsnapshot in combination with a schedule which is not based on exact times but rather on the time the computer is running?

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General :: Ubuntu Boot Optimization Strategy And Oddity

Jan 7, 2010

I want to get Ubuntu blazing fast and I started out by changing the swappiness to just 10 and got a huge performance spike. I was very happy with that. Then I used rcconf and GNOME's startup applications GUI and edited out quite a bit but still have a somewhat slow boot. Well, the next thing I thought I should do is edit the inittab and rid my self of some surely unneeded services. Well, according to this website, Ubuntu doesn't use this inittab, but etc/event.d doesn't exist either! Well I looked in /etc for something related to init, and I believe I have found where these services are called upon. /etc/init.d and /etc/init.

Now the files contain many scripts for different services so I was wondering how to edit these to turn them off to optimize my boot! Do I comment out the unneeded ones? My next question is what strategy should I use as I edit these? I think I can get rid of "ssh" and "cups" and "samba" since I don't use these. Can someone point me to a nice list of services and their functions? I just want to optimize Ubuntu as much as possible to not only have a fast computer for my self and family to use, but to impress Windows users with the speed that can be obtained from Linux!

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Fedora :: Strategy To Set Up Groups And Permissions

Nov 12, 2009

I'm setting up a Fedora 11 server for the company of one of my friends. So far so good. But now he has asked me to setup access restrictions to folders through samba. Now I'm quite familiar with user access policies, even though I'm quite new to the GNU/Linux world. What I want to know is : what is the best way to give and remove, on the go, rwx access for a specific user to a certain folder in a linux system? Can I create groups for each folders, whose members will have the given permissions? Or do I have to create users for each folder and add to their group the user witch i want to give privilege to?

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General :: Comment On Partitioning Strategy?

Mar 7, 2011

I'm planning to partition a new hard drive to dual-boot Mint+Mepis. I've read partitioning tutorials and posts, and want to check my understanding--I'd appreciate input from an experienced person.For 500GB hard drive, dual-boot Mint+Mepis:

--Mint: / root partition for OS; /home partition for ease of upgrading
--Mepis: same as Mint
= four partitions

And:
/swap partition to be shared between Mint+Mepis
/shared partition for shared data
= two partitions

Total = six partitions

Since four primary partitions are allowed, I should use three primary partitions and one extended partition containing three logical partitions.Is that correct?If so, what should go where? I assume there's an optimal strategy--Should each /root of Mint+Mepis go in a primary? What should go in the other primary, and in the three logicals? Or maybe I don't need three primaries?--use two primaries and four logicals?

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Apr 8, 2010

I compiled and install a binary source using "make" and "make install", but after I done that I think it's kind a messy not to build it in package. Therefore I tried to uninstall it and make a package out of it.

Questions:

1. How do I uninstall a compiled binary from "make install"? Some suggested to do it manually. How do I do it cleanly so that I won't miss any spot?

2. I understand that makepkg is used to build a package. I have the binary compressed in tar.gz format and have some difficulties to understand the man page for makepkg since I'm not familiar with "make". How do I build it using makepkg, what is the proper step?

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Oct 3, 2009

I have a rock solid server running CentOS 5.3 (probably 5.4 soon enough). Basic LAMP box with a few tweaks thrown in. Everything is running perfectly, with one problem - the drive is too small (I project it filling up to dangerous levels in 6-8 months). So, what I'm looking to do is basically clone the drive, store the image, pull the current drive and replace with a bigger drive (same number of heads and cylinders though), and install the image.

What I did do once, a million years ago, is put the new drive as a slave on the same IDE cable, and use dd (working from a live CD of the distro) to copy from the master (smaller) to slave (larger). Then, yank the smaller, change jumper on bigger drive from slave to master, and away I go. Next step as I recall was using gparted to get access to all the space on the new, bigger drive.

Is this more less still a reasonable way to go? I recall the issue was making sure the old smaller and new larger drive had the same number of heads/cylinders (although I don't remember exactly why).

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Apr 8, 2011

I need a new backup strategy for my two machines:

One machine all WinXP
Second machine: Win7 on one hdd; Ubuntu on second hdd

Backup target drives:

Two new WD Caviar drives in vented external enclosure with fan (no RAID)

1) How do I format the target drives to accept Clonezilla images of all three OS's?

2) How do I format the drives to accept incremental data backups from all three OS's done between scheduled imaging?

Second machine (Win7 & Ubuntu) is not yet running, still in delivery box.

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Oct 16, 2010

[URL]. I am installing the above later this week with the intent of it being my OS drive.

Potential Partition Scheme ->
Boot 100 M
Swap 8 Gig
/ -> Balance
/home --> Separate Drive

Does this make sense for a SSD drive. Not sure if I should place the swap on the SSD drive or if there are any issues around any paticular partition set up. I am looking at installing either -> LM 9 / Ultimate Edition 2.8 / Debian / Ubuntu 10.1.

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Sep 8, 2010

Having just executed a 11.2 to 11.3 upgrade (KDE), in which I preserved /home from 11.2 to preserve my data and settings, I now wonder if there is a "Best Practice" on how to setup the environment, anticipating future upgrades.Currently, for applications I frequently use and wish to launch from the desktop, I open /usr/share/applications (using Dolphin) and drag the application to my Desktop Folder, choosing the "Copy To:" option.After the recent update, my Desktop Folder files remain those from 11.2 or earlier.It seems now a better practice would be to populate the Desktop Folder with links back to /usr/share/ applications, so that changes would be implemented the the link to a newer file. That would be easily implemented by choosing the "Link To:" option when dragging.

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Ubuntu :: How To Use Bug Fixing Information

Oct 27, 2010

I recently come across some bug reporting things. I know what is bug but don't know how to use bug information that i got . can anybody explain it for me .

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Ubuntu Installation :: Upgrade From 10.04 To 10.10 Error "Could Not Calculate The Upgrade An Unresolvable Problem Occurred While Calculating The Upgrade"

Feb 12, 2011

I keep getting the following msg as I try to upgrade from 10.04 -> 10.10 ... "Could not calculate the upgrade An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. This can be caused by:

* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report." I don't think any of the issues above apply - can anyone offer advice on how to get around or "force " the upgrade

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Ubuntu :: 9.10 Live Cd Fixing Bad Sectors

Jan 15, 2011

having problems loading any OS because of bad sectors. will only load off live cd 9.10

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Dec 3, 2010

I had installed 10.10 on another partition, and then I wiped it, so I need to reinstall grub on my 9.10 partition. I have tried a few methods, including one that had worked for me in the past.But every time I boot my computer, it just says "GRUB loading.", and hangs. How should I fix this?

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Ubuntu :: Fixing / Replacing The Bootloader Files?

May 26, 2011

I am having problems with either my boot list (/boot/grub/grub.cfg) or my Master Boot Record. It is possible that something else in this area is causing the problem, however.

Configuration overview:

Machine:Sony Vaio VGN-NS140E laptop
Systems: Dual-booting Vista and Ubuntu
Partitions:Vista Recovery (NTFS)
Vista OS

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Below is some information on how I believe I created this problem and an overview of steps I took while trying to fix the problem. Several days ago, I ran GParted off of an Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (11.04) LiveUSB to remove an older, broken linux partition containing either the Maverick Meerkat (10.10) or the Lucid Lynx (10.04) release.

That partition had been my original linux partition for this machine. For reference, the partition originally had Intrepid Ibex (8.10) installed. I was unable to load it properly after downgrading from Maverick Meerkat to Lucid Lynx. Maverick had some glaring functionality issues with my laptop model.I needed to remove the partition in a Live session because it was located within an extended partition alongside my currently used Ubuntu partition.

After deleting this partition and rebooting the laptop, it was either the Grub Loader menu or a grub-rescue prompt that appeared. I'm pretty sure that it was the grub-rescue prompt at this point. Unable to move forward from this prompt, I turned off the computer and re-inserted my USB drive to boot into a Live session again. Booting into a Live session worked successfully.

At this point I was able to browse the web for possible solutions. I read somewhere that I should run sudo update-grub from the terminal. After doing this and rebooting the computer, I was taken to the Grub Loader menu. Unfortunately, all of the entries I tried to boot from brought me to the grub-rescue prompt. There were 3 error lines above the prompt, but I don't remember all of them at the moment. I know that one of them did say "Error: You need to load the kernel first."

At the time, I was hoping this could be a fairly easy fix. I had the idea to simply create a new Ubuntu partition where the old one had been. I installed Natty Narwhal to a new partition within my extended partition. When I restarted my computer after the install had been completed, I did not have the results I'd expected or hoped for. The grub-rescue prompt still came up when I attempted to boot into any of the entries listed in the Grub Loader. Also, the new install I had created was not available in the list.

I tried to get information from various commands in either the grub or grub-rescue prompt. Somehow, I was able to determine the kernel name I needed and edited the boot command (the screen accessed when you press 'e' on the Grub Loader) to include it. This was no help at the time. I again restarted the computer and booted into a Live session. I re-installed Natty Narwhal on top of the install I just created, thinking that there may have been a problem with it. After restarting the computer, I was still having the same problems as with the first installation attempt. I ran another Live session.

By looking at other user's Boot Info Script RESULTS.txt files on this forum and following some links, I was able to gain a better understanding of the Grub boot command. With this information and some more experimentation in the grub-rescue prompt, I was able to determine the UUID of my Natty Narwhal partition, edit the boot command mentioned two paragraphs ago, and boot into Ubuntu with only one error. In this new Ubuntu installation, I ran sudo update-grub in the terminal. The command returned entries that matched with those I saw in GParted, but I still had the same problems and incorrect entries when I restarted the computer.

While it is possible that I could determine all of the necessary start-up boot commands to manually enter each of my bootable partitions, this is really rather inconvenient. I want to know how I can permanently fix the Grub or other necessary files so that my bootloader can take back responsibility for this task. It would also be nice to get back into my Lucid Lynx partition because Natty is a bit buggier than I'm okay with. Fixing my problems with Natty is a topic for another post, however.

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Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos6)/boot/grub on this drive.

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Ubuntu :: Fixing/Replacing Bootloader Files

May 26, 2011

I am having problems with either my boot list (/boot/grub/grub.cfg) or my Master Boot Record. It is possible that something else in this area is causing the problem, however.

Computer overview:Make/Model/Type: Sony Vaio/VGN-NS140E/laptop
Operating Systems: Dual-booting Vista and Ubuntu
Partitions: Vista Recovery
Vista OS
Data Files (for sharing between Vista and Ubuntu partitions)
Extended partition containing:Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Ubuntu 11.04
Swap

Note: Vista is 32-bit and Ubuntu is 64-bit

Below is some information on how I believe I created this problem and an overview of steps I took while trying to fix the problem.

Several days ago, I ran GParted off of an Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (11.04) LiveUSB to remove an older, broken linux partition containing either the Maverick Meerkat (10.10) or the Lucid Lynx (10.04) release. That partition had been my original linux partition for this machine. For reference, the partition originally had Intrepid Ibex (8.10) installed. I was unable to load it properly after downgrading from Maverick Meerkat to Lucid Lynx. Maverick had some glaring functionality issues with my laptop model.

I needed to remove the partition in a Live session because it was located within an extended partition alongside my currently used Ubuntu partition.

After deleting this partition and rebooting the laptop, it was either the Grub Loader menu or a grub-rescue prompt that appeared. I'm pretty sure that it was the grub-rescue prompt at this point. Unable to move forward from this prompt, I turned off the computer and re-inserted my USB drive to boot into a Live session again. Booting into a Live session worked successfully.

At this point I was able to browse the web for possible solutions. I read somewhere that I should run sudo update-grub from the terminal. After doing this and rebooting the computer, I was taken to the Grub Loader menu. Unfortunately, all of the entries I tried to boot from brought me to the grub-rescue prompt. There were 3 error lines above the prompt, but I don't remember all of them at the moment. I know that one of them did say "Error: You need to load the kernel first."

At the time, I was hoping this could be a fairly easy fix. I had the idea to simply create a new Ubuntu partition where the old one had been. I installed Natty Narwhal to a new partition within my extended partition. When I restarted my computer after the install had been completed, I did not have the results I'd expected or hoped for. The grub-rescue prompt still came up when I attempted to boot into any of the entries listed in the Grub Loader. Also, the new install I had created was not available in the list.

I tried to get information from various commands in either the grub or grub-rescue prompt. Somehow, I was able to determine the kernel name I needed and edited the boot command (the screen accessed when you press 'e' on the Grub Loader) to include it. This was no help at the time.

I again restarted the computer and booted into a Live session. I re-installed Natty Narwhal on top of the install I just created, thinking that there may have been a problem with it. After restarting the computer, I was still having the same problems as with the first installation attempt. I ran another Live session.

By looking at other user's Boot Info Script RESULTS.txt files on this forum and following some links, I was able to gain a better understanding of the Grub boot command. With this information and some more experimentation in the grub-rescue prompt, I was able to determine the UUID of my Natty Narwhal partition, edit the boot command mentioned two paragraphs ago, and boot into Ubuntu with only one error.

In this new Ubuntu installation, I ran sudo update-grub in the terminal. The command returned entries that matched with those I saw in GParted, but I still had the same problems and incorrect entries when I restarted the computer.

While it is possible that I could determine all of the necessary start-up boot commands to manually enter each of my bootable partitions, this is really rather inconvenient. I want to know how I can permanently fix the Grub or other necessary files so that my bootloader can take back responsibility for this task. It would also be nice to get back into my Lucid Lynx partition because Natty is a bit buggier than I'm okay with. Fixing my problems with Natty is a topic for another post, however.

I am attaching RESULTS.txt from Boot Info Script. Please let me know if you need any other reports of this nature.

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Boot Info Summary:

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May 27, 2011

I accidentally killed the dhclient processes. I am unable to access the Internet wirelessly or with Ethernet. It's a little irritating because now I have to post this using my phone. I'm looking for a way to reformat the network files to how they looked when I first installed ubuntu. I don't know quite what these are, or really anything about it.

The /etc/network/interfaces file has the following information:

I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be more.

iwconfig typed into the terminal gives me this:

According to lshw, the logical name for my Ethernet interface is eth1. I think it used to be eth0. It's an 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller.

The wireless interface has logical name wlan1. I think this used to be wlan0. It's a PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection. The driver is iwl3945 - [phy0]

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Jun 23, 2011

I have Googled. I have searched these forums and others. I have ripped my hair out in frustration. As many are aware, custom resolutions- "What the hell" by "that's just messed up" or "Jesus Christ" by "you've got to be kidding"- are very hard to set under the new "xorg.conf isn't really used" paradigm. This should not be. Many Ubuntu users are running the OS on displays with either nonstandard display resolutions or devices which overscan the display but do not offer a 1:1 pixel display setting- such as myself, on my 50" Samsung 1080p DLP television, connected via its HDMI port.

After more than a year trying to find a hard-and-fast process for fixing this overscan problem (note that I did not say "a hard-and-fast FIX for this problem"), I have decided to turn to the collective wisdom of the Ubuntu user community in an effort to put this issue to bed for good. To that end, I create this thread.

Recent research via the web has led me to believe that the problem lies in the X server not being aware of any sort of valid modeline for my- or your- nonstandard resolution. I am well-aware that each solution for each user will be different; if you're reading this, you're probably a geek like me in the first place, and your chops are more than sufficient to tackle both biting off this huge issue and chewing it.

My question to the community is this: How do I determine the correct modeline to add to xorg.conf, how do I make it available to the X server, what do I need to do to format the modeline in a valid way in xorg.conf (if necessary), and how do I make it appear in the list of valid resolutions when I run nvidia-settings (or whatever the command is)?

Keep in mind, I'm more interested in establishing the correct pipeline for fixing the problem and allowing arbitrary resolutions to the limit of the given device's capacity, rather than an exact solution for my particular hardware. In other words, I don't want an exact answer for my situation; what I'm looking for is a method for finding the proper solution given situations similar to mine.

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Oct 9, 2010

Been living with apt-get not working for a while now, don't know how it broke but i'm running a 2.6.26.8 kernel for vmware and maybe thats it?

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The following extra packages will be installed:

The following packages will be upgraded:

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May 30, 2010

I do not like the new volume and battery notifications in the notification area of the panel in Ubuntu 10.04. I found out how to add back the old volume control by adding gnome-volume-control-applet to the startup applications. It is much nicer to use. I just stop on it (step 1) and scroll my mouse wheel up and down (step 2) and it shows me what is going on. With the default one for 10.04 I have to stop on it (step 1), then click it (step 2), then run up to the slider (step 3), then stop on the slider (step 4), then run my mouse wheel to adjust the volume (step 5), then click some were else to make it go away (step 6).

So now that I have the old volume controller back I would like to remove the new dysfunctional one from the notification area. It seems that I should right click and choose add and remove notifications, but I do not see any thing like that. I found a command to remove the envelop from the notification area (something else I never use). Does someone know a way to remove the volume controller from the notification area?Also, does someone know how to put the old battery monitor back on the panel. With the old one I could just stop on it to see how much battery was left. With the new one I have stop on it, then click to see it, then click to hid it? Finally, does anyone know how to remove the battery form the notification area?

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Nov 17, 2010

I'm running Debian Squeeze 32-bit with KDE 4. I've got a BenQ T2200HD monitor, and no matter how i try to configure it, fonts will always look crappy. after looking around a bit, I found some patch that is called David Turner's LCD ClearType-like patch. I found the packages- [URL]

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