@Braiam Links to comments in review don't work right. A different review item appears each time they're clicked on. So I don't know what you're asking about.
If we keep some questions open that turned out to be hardware problems and have answers saying that (like this one), then people with similar situations that are really hardware problems will be more likely to get answers and less likely to post their own hardware problems as new questions. This didn't just go away; the problem was discovered and fixed. — Eliah Kagan5 hours ago
If a problem is ultimately due to hardware, it doesn't necessarily mean it's off-topic. If the problem requires troubleshooting hardware and isn't really about Ubuntu, it's off-topic. And in many situations a hardware problem means the question is meaningless and not useful; then it can be closed, too. But in this case, and some others, that doesn't seem to be the case.
ok, it should be protected then, because we could get several "answers" about "similar" hardware but doesn't bother to check the cable, nor anything else, no?
I'm not sure what the significance is of how many close votes it has. If it were closed (usually due to five votes), I'd probably vote to reopen it. Protecting questions doesn't prevent most answers and doesn't keep them from being closed, and the only reason questions are protected is if they are very popular and are getting multiple non-answers from very low rep users. It might be right to close this (it's a question of opinion), but I can't see any reason to protect it.
lets say I have a similar problem, I look in google and found that this guy had a problem and it was the cable, but I'm sure the cable is good, then I put a "answer" saying: my cable is good, please help me, I have the same problem. Another case, I have a 4TB HDD and I want to use the whole drive in a single partition, I look in google and see this guy that can't install ubuntu in a 3TB drive, he says that the problem was the cable, but mine is shining new, then i write a "answer"
that my cable is good and ubuntu keeps trowing me these errors that reads that I can't use my whole drive, etc....
Generally a question is only protected if it is already getting NAA answers. Any question can get answers that are really comments or separate questions.
Btw one thing that can be done to help prevent NAA answers from distracting from real answers, and to get some of them removed faster, is to downvote them as well as flagging them as NAA. Almost all NAA answers deserve downvotes, since they are not answers at all. We often have NAA answers appearing above reasonable actual answers. The downvote also makes it so 20k users can vote to delete them. Your -1 rep is reversed when the NAA answer is deleted (no matter how or by whom).
@Braiam The (other) existing answer looks good to me. I've "VTR"ed. 10.04 was supported when the question was asked, and we don't close questions just because they have low views. (Similarly, high views almost never means a question has to stay open.)
New EoL questions are off-topic. We don't go and close huge numbers of questions whenever a release goes EoL. Old EoL questions that have no answers (or no answers that are even minimally reasonable or of positive score) can often be closed as off-topic, even though they were on-topic when asked. But old EoL questions with possibly helpful answers are kept open (unless there is something else wrong with them that would warrant closure).
It's mainly about whether or not they are answered:
All - as per the revised FAQ - 11.04 unanswered questions are now off-topic (http://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/11.04?sort=unanswered&pagesize=50) - for those with close votes, please can you start the ball rolling by casting your close votes please. Thanks.
But questions that are asked about EoL releases and clearly apply to non-EoL releases are sometimes kept open too, especially if they can be edited to be more general and not release-specific. (Old EoL questions don't generally need to be edited for this, though it may be helpful especially for questions that have wide use for non-EoL releases.)
@Braiam I am not aware of any policy against that. In practice, such answers are probably rare. There's usually no way to know that an answer is only helpful for releases older than or equal to some release. Most possible procedures are not. Of course, if you see such an answer and it can be expanded or otherwise generalized through editing to apply to more releases including currently supported releases, editing would usually be very appropriate.
This seems like a bug to me. I think we should probably close it (and comment with a link to bug reporting instructions for Steam). What do you think?
Maybe it's because of the driver?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on an HP Pavilion dv7 with a Radeon video card.
steam
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
after 7 requests (7 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
downloader@downloader:~$ steam
Run...
weird thing is that the steam package on debian is dependent of libgl1-mesa-* packages, he should have the glx calls, or something went wire with privative drivers
@Braiam Btw I'm not saying you shouldn't post that on meta. It could be a valuable meta question. (I'm not saying you have to post it either. Your choice.)
Do we already have a question with answers about how to have a touchpad automatically disabled when a mouse is plugged in (and presumably re-enabled when all mice are unplugged):
When in Windows 7 I have the option to have the touchpad automatically be disabled when a usb mouse in plugged in. Then when the mouse in unplugged the touchpad automatically becomes enabled. There is even a light at the top of the touchpad the comes on when it is in disabled mode! Is there a way...
I have a Logitech MX Anywhere wireless USB mouse which works very well with Ubuntu. However, I would like to disable the touch pad when this mouse is connected. I keep hitting the touch pad with my wrist or thumb and cause the mouse to move to another part of the screen. I am constantly fixing...
@Braiam Agreed. (Not sure about merging, but duplication, yes.) I'd already just close-voted, though. I recommend VTCing for that if you have close votes left. I've edited my comment to list that as the first recommendation for closing.
Many commercial backup and data recovery software (like Acronis) ship with a live DVD in order to restore backups from an external harddrive to the internal harddrive and recover lost/deleted data in a safe and easy-to-use environment. I know there are plenty of Ubuntu (or other linux) live distr...
We might want to close it before requesting merging. I don't really know what the best practices are for the Trello board though.
What do you (both of you, and anybody else who sees this) think of closing this as a duplicate of the canonical black screen question? It could be reopened if more information is provided about proposed solutions there not working. Or do you think it's specific enough that it should not be considered a duplicate of that? Is it a bug?
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I tell them that I have a laptop lenovo z 480 and half of the time ubuntu will not boot, only displays this error message Error ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask = 0x1 and sometimes the screen goes black with blinking cursor. is there any solution?'ve tried several...
@Braiam About it being a hardware issue? Cool. You might want to post an answer. (If you do, I recommend including an English version, of course.) That this message indicates a hardware problem is about Ubuntu, not just about hardware. For example, I didn't know that meant a hardware problem: now my Ubuntu knowledge is greater. So unless there's something wrong with the question, it probably is on-topic. Either way, I recommend answering it with that info.
(You could post CW if you don't want rep, but there's really no reason not to post normally.)
Many commercial backup and data recovery software (like Acronis) ship with a live DVD in order to restore backups from an external harddrive to the internal harddrive and recover lost/deleted data in a safe and easy-to-use environment. I know there are plenty of Ubuntu (or other linux) live distr...
If you don't want to be part of the whole Trello thing that's fine... I don't care that much, though it seems silly for it to be just me and jokerdino, and perhaps a bit one sided...
@Seth ex. just now I needed someone to do migration and it is silly to leave a message sitting for "hours" in the general chat room, until a mod comes by and check
@Seth Yes. It does cover the blinking cursor. At least some causes of it. But that message is apparently an indication of a hardware problem, as Braiam answered.
@Seth 'Night.
@Braiam Out of votes for the day, but I plan to upvote it tomorrow. (Until then, the question should still not be shown in the unanswered questions list, since the answer has a positive score.)
Note:
This is an attempt to create a canonical question that covers all
instances of "low-graphics mode" error that occurs to a user,
including but not limited to installation of wrong drivers,
incorrect or invalid lightdm greeters, low disk space, incorrect
installation of graphi...
It would probably be good to edit/expand some of the answers there so they more clearly apply to both installed and live environments. Additional instructions would have to be given for live environments (because accessing the boot menu, setting kernel boot parameters, and installing anything that normally requires a reboot must be done a bit differently). Some of the answers there already apply directly to live environments, though.
he says in title "fresh install" then the body says "trying to install" and reading more says "after trying to install" then at the very end he gave vague signals that he hasn't installed :/
@Braiam Yeah, it's mainly not specifically for that question that work on the low-graphics mode canonical question might be warranted, but just in general, to help more people who have the problem in a live environment.
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop using the Windows Interface installer and it works just fine but now I want to get rid of Windows 7 permanently because it is simply a burden and uses up 50GB of disk space and is virtually usless to me now.
Since this type of installation uses Windows as th...
@Braiam That one is, yes. There are a variety of similar questions also duped to the Wubi migration question.
They were once a continuum, some more explicitly about migration and some more explicitly about what would happen if you uninstalled Windows after installing Wubi.
Possible Duplicate:
Does Ubuntu rely on Windows if I install it using the Windows installer?
I am planning to install Ubuntu 12.04 using Wubi in Windows7. If in future I want to remove Windows(and then reinstall) will I be able to keep Ubuntu?
Assume that I have installed Ubuntu in a s...
Possible Duplicate:
How to convert Wubi install into regular install?
If I install Ubuntu to a new partition using the Windows installer (Wubi), will I be able to uninstall Windows, and have Ubuntu boot by itself? Or does it rely on Windows? If I uninstall windows will Ubuntu be useles...
Long story short, I need Ubuntu on this net-book installed CRITICALLY by tomorrow. I don't have any flash drives, but the net-book already has Windows 7. If I install Wubi.exe, will I be able to get rid of Windows 7 and use the space that Windows 7 was in for Ubuntu? I still have more then enough...
There's way more similar questions (that were duped to one thing or another) too, I think. I just don't see all of them in the related sidebars. I remember finding 10 of them one day, and I think they were duped to another one that was then itself duped to the Wubi migration question.
(I'm back. That didn't take as long as I'd expected. :)
@Braiam I'm not sure there is one, but the hardest part is how to migrate. Maybe we should add minimal information to the master migration question to explain explicitly what happens if you install Wubi then uninstall Windows. (For Wubi systems both on and off the main Windows partition, as a lot of people seem to ask about installing Wubi on a separate NTFS partition and then removing Windows.)
I have installed Ubuntu on my D: partition using Wubi. Is there any way in which I can remove my Windows from C: drive and move my existing Ubuntu installation to C: drive and make it a regular install.
I'm out of edit reviews for the day, so if you submit an edit to the tag wiki and I don't approve it promptly, that's probably why. (Speaking of which, there's a couple suggested edits in the queue, perhaps you can review them? Unless you already have.)
@Braiam Yeah, I should actually have suggested it for migration to Unix.SE. I'm not totally sure what I was thinking--all the options that even vaguely interest the OP seem to be Unix-like distros. That's not to say Unix.SE would want it either.
@Braiam That nothing displays, I think is a bug, yes. The underlying cause might or might not be a bug; for example, maybe the window manager that the utility configures for is not the WM that's running. So I'm not sure if we should close it just yet, but either way it would be good for the OP to report the blank windows as a bug. (Of course, further investigation of the underlying cause might help the bug report.)
I have a Logitech MX Anywhere wireless USB mouse which works very well with Ubuntu. However, I would like to disable the touch pad when this mouse is connected. I keep hitting the touch pad with my wrist or thumb and cause the mouse to move to another part of the screen. I am constantly fixing...
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I tell them that I have a laptop lenovo z 480 and half of the time ubuntu will not boot, only displays this error message Error ata1.00: failed to enable AA (error_mask = 0x1 and sometimes the screen goes black with blinking cursor. is there any solution?'ve tried several...
Note:
This is an attempt to create a canonical question that covers all
instances of "low-graphics mode" error that occurs to a user,
including but not limited to installation of wrong drivers,
incorrect or invalid lightdm greeters, low disk space, incorrect
installation of graphi...
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I got this error after having resize and move some partitions
I have installed Ubuntu on my D: partition using Wubi. Is there any way in which I can remove my Windows from C: drive and move my existing Ubuntu installation to C: drive and make it a regular install.
