i'm pretty new to Linux and my new problem is ATI drivers. When i installed Ubuntu then i had black screen issue with the blinking in left upper corner, fixed it with F6 and set the "nolapic" mode, can boot only with "nolapic". Now the problem is the drivers. The suggested drivers, from the "Addi...

According to the OP the import in fact worked: Nevermind, I have found it. It only took a few minutes before my Drive appeared and I was able to access my files. – Austin Dec 3 '11 at 22:59

I am running Gnome 3 and am trying to get conky to work. When I just installed and ran conky in terminal, this showed up. So I googled how to make it look better and I found Conky Colors. I followed this guide and when I ran it, nothing showed up on the screen but conky shows up in the system ...

To make text in a .jpeg editable you need Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. I use ocrfeeder. sudo apt-get install ocrfeeder To open an image file click on the 'plus' (+) sign. After you have opened the image, click on the next icon to the right to run OCR. After is has finished...

This is both a Window manager and an application-specific thing. Window managers such as Compiz are able to remember the size of your windows and open them in the last used sized if setup correctly. However, on Lubuntu, the Window Manager is Openbox, which does not support this feature. Some app...

Your problem is that the drive has been put into read only mode, which can be fixed by running a disk check. Instructions You will need a Live CD/USB. Once it boots, open a terminal. Type: sudo fdisk -l Find your hard drive from the list. Once you know what it is, run sudo e2fsk -f /dev/yourdi...

The chat room log is recorded on a granite mountain face in South Dakota, and edit/delete operations are expensive. They've implemented a 2 minute fifo so that users can edit/remove them before they are committed to the permanent record, but after that you have to have a really good reason for c...

I installed 11.10 and was getting stuck on Busybox unless I type exit. After grabbing the latest updates it then didn't get stuck on busybox but instead on a black screen of nothingness. I've now reformatted and started again using the exit technique for the time being. I had a search here befor...

I just installed a new PCI video card on a HP/Compaq Presario sr1010z desktop (AMD64). When I play a video, the colors are right, but when I make it full screen, the video is choppier and worse than before I put the card in. So I inst alled the latest nVidia through (System Settings > Additional...

I previously was successful using VPNC to connect to my customers under 64 bit 10.10. Customer provide me with a Cisco .pdf file and I have been able to import them and connect from the VPNC network-manager plugin. I've since installed 11.10 64 bit with Gnome shell. The network manager plugin do...

So Im trying to install for the dual boot option, however, when I reboot the system to launch into the installer via CD, it doesn't get very far. I get a panic error and it tries to go into the text console. I pulled this off on my lappy that has Vista and it installed beautifully without a hitch...

I have successfully gotten the mysql cluster built after following this guide: http://tech.jocke.no/2011/03/13/mysql-cluster-how-to-with-load-balancing-failover/ I have since then installed apache and php on the same box. That is working. I run into troubles when trying to install the MySQLi e...

I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with a Creative 2.0 MP webcam built-in, running on Ubuntu 10.10. Earlier I was using Windows Vista which came pre-installed with my laptop. The quality of camera was very good, but now on Ubuntu the quality of the webcam is really really bad; any idea why that i...

I have Lubuntu and Ubuntu partitions on my drive. I've been having an interesting time with the new lubuntu partition. I've encountered strange things with the game Minecraft, Java and graphics drivers on the lubuntu partition. Firstly, I'll say that Minecraft runs fine at about 60fps on the ...

I suffered this exact same fate, and also couldn't find anything on how to fix it. I did finally get it to work, and wrote a blog post titled Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn and other CSS and JavaScript files from CDNs not loading on Ubuntu that explains the process I went through and things I tried....

The openoffice.org-debian-menus is the cause of your problems. This should sort it: sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a3.5.2-2ubuntu1_all.deb Then you should be able to continue with your upgrade.

I am trying to play Metal Slug in mame. I have both mslug.zip and neogeo.zip, both showing up in the games list, but when I try to run Metal Slug, it says I am missing one or more required files. Please help? Thanks.