Just got a new laptop with an intel grpahics driver -- I'm used to nvidia. Can anyone point me to a proper way to configure the display for dual-monitors?
@roland Whoops, thanks, but I forgot to mention that the normal 'display' settings via gnome are not recognizing my monitors correctly.
It thinks my 13 inch laptop screen is 24".... I've got a dock for this Dell, and even though this worked fine on an older model, Ubuntu is quite confused and won't let me properly select monitors to turn on or off.
So, what's the under-the-hood way to do this? xrandr?
@belacqua i worked with a british lady whose father was picked up off a scooter by a truck/lorry's rear-view mirror, so the word is stuck in my head from the story
I am trying to boot Ubuntu on my computer. When I boot my computer it boots to a black screen. How can I fix this?
Table of Contents:
If you are trying to install Ubuntu
If you have a dual boot system
If an update or something else caused your problem
I've tried to install oracle-java7-installer package from custom repository onto Ubuntu 12. It was failed during executing some post-installation script.
So. I want just to rollback it and proceed with another solutions (to install java 7 jdk).
I've tried to make
> sudo aptitude remove ora...
Hi guys... Sorry to bother you... urgent problem I haven't seen before :( Disk space gone critical in the mapped /var - I just deleted 2GB of old logs (already got a local copy), but, df isn't updating / still says 90% in use... Any ideas?
FYI, I ran ncdu (fav tool of the moment!) and it showed only a bit in use... it is specifically df -h that isn't updating :/ (and that is what is generating the alerts AFAIK... through nagios)
@JorgeCastro sort of like windirstat but command line... I love it!
@Mahesh still same issue :(
I just went to /var/log/apache2 and deleted access.log and error.log through rm, dones it loads of times before... but... it just doesn't seem to be reflected anywhere :/
I just did echo test > access.log it allowed the file to be created! It isn't there...
:( ok, no worries!
@Mahesh I think I have found it... but, this makes no sense to me...
anyone able to explain... Using my windows knowledge here and just thinking "perhaps linux can lock files as well"... I just googled a command to see what can see current locks... (and also due to the fact that the log isn't being recreated) and I can see this:
Any idea why/how a file can lock something that is deleted? :/
@Mahesh Makes sense. I find some that are helpful, but I do this thing involuntarily where I glaze over all the text that is irrelevant, find what I need, and get out.
Especially because work uses XP. 11 years old. But apparently they bought computers with Win7 Pro, then put XP on there because to get all the content they needed for these to run as we wish, they decided to downgrade.
They also locked the BIOS, so booting from an external drive is difficult.
Especially because work uses XP. 11 years old. But apparently they bought computers with Win7 Pro, then put XP on there because to get all the content they needed for these to run as we wish, they decided to downgrade. mostly because they were too lazy, downgraded everything.
I have a laptop I am setting up for someone using Wubi(Silly me)...
and it boots but then keeps showing the plymouth logo, and the cursor, as well as another one that does not move in the upper left corner. The screen flickers off and then on a few times keeping the same [native] resolution, and nothing changes. I can move the regular mouse cursor. Once it changes to the busy one after a screen flicker, it moves but is not animated.
I can't seem to get into a TTY(doesn't like the key) or use any SysRq except B for a reboot. When I try to boot it using failsafe graphics, it gives black and white bars, evenly spaced, vertical, and exactly 8 pixels wide. The laptop has the ATI radeon 6840G IIRC.
@Mahesh So, in the mean time, what happens to the file?
e.g. In Windows, if there is a lock, you can't delete the file at all
In Ubuntu, you can delete the file, but, it won't actually be gone - and you don't know about it... AND can even over write it, whilst it still technically exists... just seems very weird to me :/
@WilliamHilsum technically in Windows you don't delete files... you just remove them from the file system table... then eventually they get over written... this is what causes fragmentation...
@WilliamHilsum that is also why you can recover data, (assuming that you haven't over written it...)
What are your tips for improving overall system performance on ubuntu? Inspired by this question I realized that some default settings may be rather conservative on Ubuntu and that it's possible to tweak it with little or no risk if you wish to make it faster.
This is not meant to be application...
Trying to invert scrolling with to fingers.
Where to configure synaptics for this?
I am trying to boot Ubuntu on my computer. When I boot my computer it boots to a black screen. How can I fix this?
Table of Contents:
If you are trying to install Ubuntu
If you have a dual boot system
If an update or something else caused your problem
I've tried to install oracle-java7-installer package from custom repository onto Ubuntu 12. It was failed during executing some post-installation script.
So. I want just to rollback it and proceed with another solutions (to install java 7 jdk).
I've tried to make
> sudo aptitude remove ora...
Solution:
Edit /etc/default/locale:
LANG="en_US"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
Edit ~/.pam_environment:
LANG=en_US
Language=en_US
Logout and Login or Reboot.
So yeah How do I make Ubuntu 12.10 run faster
