Ubuntu :: Tried Turning Off Visual Assistance From Start-up?
Mar 14, 2011
I have this computer that loads up a magnifying glass sort of application on the right half of the screen during the log in. ie. when choosing accounts and typing in the password screen. So far: I tried turning off visual assistance from start-up. I also uninstalled compiz from the installed software.
Neither have seemed to have disabled it. The Computer is running Ubuntu 10.04.1 with the latest updates.Does anybody have any suggestions for me? I will try to post a screen shot of it when I get time to.
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May 8, 2010
I have not seen a fix posted yet. I am running Lucid standard Ubuntu on 1000HA with Intel GMA 950 graphics. I periodically have keyboard and mouse freezes. It seems turning off visual effects decreases the frequency of the problem but does not solve it. I turned on the keyboard map of control-alt-backspace and I am able to restart x when it freezes. I am running kernel 2.6.32-22-generic which if I read things correctly includes fixes for x memory leaks.
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Well first I'll give you some background info. I have Ubuntu 10.10 x64 8 gigs of ram AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ ATI graphics card I just installed Ubuntu on my second HDD yesterday and am using my BIOS to switch between the OSes (basically just staying in Ubuntu in other words. I have had no issues installing Ubuntu what-so-ever.
Heres where my issues come in. Firstly every time I restart my computer it doesn't allow my bluetooth devices (mouse + keyboard. Both made by mircosoft. Dongle is a microsoft product as well) to connect right away. I have to go into the BT settings and click "Make my computer visible" (or something to that effect). After I do this (all on my wired keyboard and mouse) and i hit a button on my keyboard and mouse they are then able to operate my computer. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Another issue that I am having is that my computer WILL NO LONGER recognize the names nor the demintions of either of my monitors (a visio 42 inch connected via HDMI and a acer 22 inch connected via VGA. both going to an ati graphics card). On top of this my computer will not switch the default monitor from my 42 inch to my 22 inch and this is the larger of the two issues in this section due to the fact that I dont always use my TV -> thats usually when I'm watching movies Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
I am extremely new to Ubuntu and Linux as a whole. I have greatly enjoyed the learning experiences that I have had in the past two days. Also I just prefer Ubuntu to windows. Its sleek its fast and its fun to tinker with . If it would not be a problem please explain the reasoning behind any solutions. And PLEASE feel free to ask any questions, Im here to help you help me! Just kidding. If i can ever return the favor just let me know!
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Jun 22, 2010
I have an apache2 web server running on ubuntu server (Ver 2.6.27-7-server) running just a basic Mediawiki site for our group internally. It's just a basic info wiki, and it also hosts a bunch of large .iso files for the group to download if they need them. The latter part is where my latest issue has come up, and I'll try to keep it brief.
We moved all the .iso files to a FTP server that we just got up and running, since the FTP site has goads more space available on it's NAS shared drive than my wiki server whose hard disk is rapidly shrinking with all the .iso files on it. Now, the FTP server is outward facing unlike the wiki server, so obviously it has to have user/password authentication unlike the wiki, which is only internal.
I want to be able to link from the wiki server directly to the files on the FTP server without the user being prompted for a password, while still keeping a decent transfer speed.
So far I've tried 2 methods that have "worked".
First, I mounted a local folder on the wiki to the FTP server using CurlFTPfs by adding a line in the /etc/fstab file.
Code:
curlftpfs#iso:ftpiso@172.17.12.19 /var/www/downloads fuse allow_other,uid=www-data,gid=www-data 0 0
This actually works perfectly, I can link to the files and never get prompted for credentials, however the transfer rate is abysmal. under 100kb/s over a gigabit connection, rather than 10MB/s I can get if using an FTP client directly.
The other method I used was enabling the mod_proxy_ftp and simply redirecting to the FTP using the wiki server as a proxy.
In the virtual host file:
Code:
ProxyPass /download ftp://iso:ftpiso@172.17.12.19
ProxyPassReverse /download ftp://iso:ftpiso@172.17.12.19
This speeds things up a little ~230kb/s however I still get prompted for credentials.
Is there any way possible to get it to work like the CurlFTPfs method but still get decent network xfer rates?
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Code:
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.4 on Sat Jan 9 19:15:49 2010
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [583:45175]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [694:60887]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [143:18642]
[code]....
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Code:
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!!--'DISPLAY FAILED TO LAUNCH'
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