> I'm hoping that someone can assist with an issue that's developed on my HP
> Pavilion DV7 notebook since installing 10.10. Since upgrading, my synaptics
> touchpad has sort of stopped working. I say sort of because it works fine on
> the login screen, it just stops responding entirely once I
> Well, you didn't mention what is actually in the box? What sort of
> graphics driver does it have? None? Integrated? If integrated, what
> chipset is it? Most integrated graphics cards are made by Intel, which
> is very Linux friendly.
Howdy,
Just regarding the above, in case you don't know,
> I have loaded the system monitor as you have suggested and now have the
> the little window on my panel. Couldn't find "Load" and "Disk" but I'll
> work that out.
>
> You comments are pertinent and encouraging. Thanks again.
Hi Dave,
Right-Click on the system monitor panel applet and choo
> Simply Backup all goes well to the point of pressing the "backup now"
> button and the "A backup run is initiated. The process id is "
> message is displayed. After that, there is no sign of activity - that I
> can see. I presume that it is working in the background. Though it
> doesn't pr
> May I ask the advantage of putting it in /mnt or /media over leaving it
> in / (in root it doesn't show an icon)?
> Is it 'better' in the sense of 'nix convention or is there another
> advantage? I tend toward /home being better but only if I can overcome
> the icon.
Hi Dave,
I guess from a f
> There seems to be a disadvantage mounting it in /home/myname/3264common
> - the drive icon shows on the desktop (annoying).
> Mounting in /3264common does not show the drive icon but still mounts
> OK.
> Any thoughts why this should be so and how I can avoid just that one
> drive icon showing whe
