Re: printing control
2009/11/10 David Bowskill david...@tpg.com.au: Hello All Does anyone know of a program which can intercept the stream going to a printer, such that it would allow only odd or even (user selectable) numbered pages through to be printed. This would be useful to facilitate double sided printing. Most applications can do this in their standard print dialogues. Failing that, you can print to PDF and then open in evince (Document Viewer) for printing. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
printing control- again
Hello All Does anyone know of a program which can intercept the stream going to a printer, such that it would allow only odd or even (user selectable) numbered pages through to be printed. This would be useful to facilitate double sided printing. Many programs in their printing dialogue require you list the pages as 1,3,5,7 etc,then 2,4,6,8 etc.and don't offer the facility of odd/even printing - although a few do. This becomes very wearisome if a large document has to printed. Thanks in anticipation David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Log In challenge - screenshot attached
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 21:59 +1000, Brian Ross wrote: Greetings, I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. Now once I have logged in I am met with the attached screenshot. I type in my old (first) password (note not my current password) and it goes away. However this screen continues to greet me everytime I log in. How do I get rid of this request? Thanks for your help. Love Ubuntu. Regards Brian Ross Try changing your keyring password to match your new user password. I expect when you log in Gnome is attempting to unlock your keyring with your user password, but failing. So, you get asked for the keyring password. Hope this helps StooJ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Log In challenge - screenshot attached
I type in my old (first) password (note not my current password) and it goes away. However this screen continues to greet me everytime I log in. Hi Brian, This has happened to me before aswell - it seems that your system/login password, and your 'keyring' password are two completely different things. (the way I figure it, your keyring stores all your saved passwords and the like, and it has a password to unlock it. So if, say, Ubuntu One wants to access your keyring, it needs your keyring password). If your keyring password and your login password are the same, it's happy days. If they are different, you get the screen you showed us. If you click Applications Accessoroes Passwords and Encryption, you can change the keyring password. It's bed time and I can't remember the exact process, but I seem to recall you just right click somewhere and change password, making sure it matches your login password. Hopefully someone else can finish off from here, *yawn* Cheers CD -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Log In challenge - screenshot attached
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 22:12 +0930, Stewart Johnston wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 21:59 +1000, Brian Ross wrote: Greetings, I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. Now once I have logged in I am met with the attached screenshot. I type in my old (first) password (note not my current password) and it goes away. However this screen continues to greet me everytime I log in. How do I get rid of this request? Thanks for your help. Love Ubuntu. Regards Brian Ross Try changing your keyring password to match your new user password. I expect when you log in Gnome is attempting to unlock your keyring with your user password, but failing. So, you get asked for the keyring password. Hope this helps StooJ Actually, I should probably check. This is the default behaviour if you have auto-login enabled, and I don't know how to disable that (nor would I want to). To change the keyring password, go to Applications - Accessories - Passwords and Encryption Keys. Right-click on Passwords: login and select Change Password. Seems a little confusing, since you're changing the seahorse password, not your user login password, but there you go. StooJ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: 10 useful yhings to do after installing Karmic
On 7 Nov, 03:40, Microbe xxxmicrobe...@gmail.com wrote: Damn I wish I had blogged my entire experience with this - maybe someone would do something about it. Deciding to persevere I have been trying to install Medibuntu for the last 24 hours based on suggestions (thanks!) Good Day Microbe ,from a new member on this list and only been using Ubuntu for since ver 8 something or other . Although posting using windows xp Firefox as a browser (dual boot) So had a bit of a smile and thought it was not only me type thoughts . Not sure if my post will help you But my early experiences were much the same as yours When first installed ubuntu ran it from the live disc and thought hey that works for me .I will install Then it started a bit like your tale of woe . I buggered about got all twisted up fiddled with packages grub and eventually stuffed up things pretty badly . So out came G parted and I wiped every partition except windows . Created some free cspace and resized . Closed down went to bed Next day (weekend ) started afresh Just installed largest contiguous space IIRC shut down rebooted and fiddled with pppoeconf to get connected started upgrade via update went and mowed the lawns Came back needed a reboot because teh machine said so :) Did that =sweet as a nut EXCEPT NO SOUND ! went to google 3 mins and found the fix ( it was not restricted packages by the way but an alsa fiddle (now back it appears in 9.10 but cant fix it) so reverted to earlier version sweet as a nut again . I am at a bit of a loss when trying to replicate your problems (using 9.10) on another machine (that I can use without fear of buggering it up) Then same thing happened Yikes I said he is right WRONG it was the upstream provider of our ISP that was having bottleneck problems both with telstra and singtel ? Next try at about 3 am No problem . Thus I fixed things but no idea how :) But reckon it may be some left over crud from early attempts Thus G parted and a nice clean install and try again may be the go ? Sorry people, but despite your best efforts right now Ubuntu is just for geeks. I can sense what you feel having thought exactly the same thing but the problem was my haste and lack of knowledge and no way am I even close to a geek And to be honest some of those geek types have really educated me in nice simple terms and 99.8% the error was my inability to stop thinking in windows terms and inputs . That said you see on a lot of the forums cryptic short hand that is Linux centric with some of the terminology Take me away from sudo and apt getthen I am lost in some of the chatter But I admire how helpful strangers are and so damned fast in replying with the try this or enter this string and send me x or y so we can have a look at it and help etc . If they are geeks thne they are bloody nice bunch and always in my experience able to get me out of the spot which increases my learning curve no end . Being obstinate and because I enjoy learning to overcome these sort of obstacles I am still going to keep trying, but there is no way I would recommend Ubuntu to anyone as a Windows replacement. You know I have never thought of it (ubuntu) as a 100% windows replacement but a very powerful and at last easy to use adjunctive add on . Perhaps because work forces us to stay with MSOFT gear a fair bit. I must say my productivity and pleasure at 'puters is now far more enjoyable . But every now then I wonder why do things like sound and soem graphics printers etc just work out of the box . A large part is the drivers but now not as much a pain as say a year ago EXCEPT LEXMARK which are just plain deaf to requests and useless Nvidia came up with a fix after a request and nwo is a blinder on a 24 inch screen (better than when in windows for some reason) Again not sure this post helps you but you are not alone when starting down the different path Not sure what part of the Country you are in but when all else fails a nip or two of moonshine and a sleep on the problem often fixes it Just wish at times what I did to come up with that fix :) However, I have ditched 9.10 and gone back to the version before and the systems are back to being bullet proof HTH Cheers Cheers -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.comhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: whats with this your not a member and wait for a moderator yet it appears I *am * member
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Phil in the scrub phil0488497...@gmail.com wrote: Your mail to 'ubuntu-au' with the subject Re: 10 useful yhings to do after installing Karmic Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post by non-member to a members-only list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: I reckon this sort of thing will turn a lot of folks away as well as the big flashy sigs when using expensive connections when away -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au It's an anti-spam measure and quite a good one. I'm a moderator for a number of other mailing lists and the number of times I've seen useful posts from non-members is significantly low. I suggest you sign up to the list (by clicking the link at the bottom of the email) this ensures that all your messages are sent instantly to the list and that that you also see all the responses to your question. By 'big flashy sigs' you mean an image in a signature? If you look at most mailing lists posts they are plain text (this message included). There is a very small minority of posts that are HTML and even fewer with an image. If you have an issue with someone including an image in a signature I suggest you talk to them directly and not make accusations against all the members of the mailing list. -- Harrison Conlin -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: whats with this your not a member and wait for a moderator yet it appears I *am * member
Phil in the scrub wrote: Your mail to 'ubuntu-au' with the subject Re: 10 useful yhings to do after installing Karmic Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post by non-member to a members-only list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: I reckon this sort of thing will turn a lot of folks away as well as the big flashy sigs when using expensive connections when away Looks like you posted from a different email address. Paul P.S. Good to see you found your first name, Phil! :-) attachment: paul.vcf smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Help with Graphics Problem on New Machine using Koala
Hi Guy's, I did post this to the main forums, but been a bit light on replies. So thought I'd just pass it bye the list, hoping to get a bit of advice, if possible, from the smart, good-looking and intelligent Ubuntu users here. :) I have just purchased a new machine with an ASUS P5KPL-AM/PS motherboard and installed Koala 9.10 amd64. The Alt ISO image installed fine, and everything seems Ok except my graphics resolution, which has the only single option of 800 x 600. There is a longer version to my story, but to cut it short; I purchased the machine off Ebay, advertised as having a Nvidia Geforce 7050 VGA inside, which is, according to my research, Ubuntu happy. It didn't (have the Nvidia GeForce), and surprisingly the seller has all but left for Brazil. Talk about Caveat Emptor, and that which is said of deals too good to be true. Guess I'll never learn. Anyway, should I just bite the bullet on this and just purchase a compatible graphics board, or is there another solution? Any advice or suggestions on this would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance, rob -- === Local Id: OPM595 Email: opm...@yahoo.com.au PO Box 190, Narellan NSW 2567 Australia Aude aliquid dignum - Dare Something Worthy === -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Dual Boot SATA and PATA?
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 07:51 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: The Wassermans wrote: I currently have Ubuntu 8.04 loaded on a SATA and dual boots with Windows XP. Because I needed a clean install of XP, I decided to take the opportunity to install XP on a spare PATA drive, Fully expecting to be able to simply redirect the dual boot instruction to fire up XP on the PATA drive in the same way as it did previously. At present I can only access the XP when I want to by changing the Boot priority in the BIOS each time. It works but I don't like it. I need some guidance please. Hi Dave, Hello Paul, Thank you for your response and guidance. I have not been checking my mail as I should and missed your post. You definitely should be able to do what you're after. What order is your BIOS set to boot in? SATA first? I have been changing the order manually during boot-up, depending on whether I want Ubuntu or Windows. But I would prefer to have it run selectively from the Sata disk. If it's booting from SATA first, then your SATA drive should be (hd0) as far as grub is concerned, and (hd1) should be PATA, although this may not hold true for all BIOSes - i'm not sure whether the order is determined reliably. On my system, it's similar (Ubuntu on SATA, Windows on PATA), but because it books first from PATA, the drive numbers are the other way around. The relevant parts of my /boot/grub/menu.lst entries look like this: I would appreciate it if you would be good enough to have a look at my version of the menu.lst which follows here:- ## ## End Default Options ## title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-22-generic root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic root=UUID=7a6224b7-43dd-44f1-9615-9fe469473b8f ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-22-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-22-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic root=UUID=7a6224b7-43dd-44f1-9615-9fe469473b8f ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-22-generic title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic root=UUID=7a6224b7-43dd-44f1-9615-9fe469473b8f ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic root=UUID=7a6224b7-43dd-44f1-9615-9fe469473b8f ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=7a6224b7-43dd-44f1-9615-9fe469473b8f ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=7a6224b7-43dd-44f1-9615-9fe469473b8f ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=7a6224b7-43dd-44f1-9615-9fe469473b8f ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=7a6224b7-43dd-44f1-9615-9fe469473b8f ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+ root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin quiet ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 --8-- Er, What does 8 mean? Regards and thanks again. Dave W -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Help with Graphics Problem on New Machine using Koala
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 13:24 +1100, OPM595 wrote: Hi Guy's, I did post this to the main forums, but been a bit light on replies. So thought I'd just pass it bye the list, hoping to get a bit of advice, if possible, from the smart, good-looking and intelligent Ubuntu users here. :) I have just purchased a new machine with an ASUS P5KPL-AM/PS motherboard and installed Koala 9.10 amd64. The Alt ISO image installed fine, and everything seems Ok except my graphics resolution, which has the only single option of 800 x 600. There is a longer version to my story, but to cut it short; I purchased the machine off Ebay, advertised as having a Nvidia Geforce 7050 VGA inside, which is, according to my research, Ubuntu happy. It didn't (have the Nvidia GeForce), and surprisingly the seller has all but left for Brazil. Talk about Caveat Emptor, and that which is said of deals too good to be true. Guess I'll never learn. Anyway, should I just bite the bullet on this and just purchase a compatible graphics board, or is there another solution? Any advice or suggestions on this would be very much appreciated. 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. Cheers -- Aryan Ameri -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: whats with this your not a member and wait for a moderator yet it appears I *am * member
On 11 Nov, 08:52, Paul Gear p...@libertysys.com.au wrote: Phil in the scrub wrote: P.S. Good to see you found your first name, Phil! :-) OK Pay that Cyber Boags on the way Cheers -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Help with Graphics Problem on New Machine using Koala
On 11 Nov, 10:24, OPM595 opm...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Hi Guy's, I did post this to the main forums, but been a bit light on replies. So thought I'd just pass it bye the list, hoping to get a bit of advice, if possible, from the smart, good-looking and intelligent Ubuntu users here. :) I have just purchased a new machine with an ASUS P5KPL-AM/PS motherboard and installed Koala 9.10 amd64. The Alt ISO image installed fine, and everything seems Ok except my graphics resolution, which has the only single option of 800 x 600. There is a longer version to my story, but to cut it short; I purchased the machine off Ebay, advertised as having a Nvidia Geforce 7050 VGA inside, which is, according to my research, Ubuntu happy. It didn't (have the Nvidia GeForce), and surprisingly the seller has all but left for Brazil. Talk about Caveat Emptor, and that which is said of deals too good to be true. Guess I'll never learn. Anyway, should I just bite the bullet on this and just purchase a compatible graphics board, or is there another solution? Any advice or suggestions on this would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance, rob Good day Rob I assume you have loaded up the drivers if not this one may help came out I think about Aug/sept http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_185.18.36.html same kit on another machine here Asus board Intel 8400 chipset with same card as you difference however,is running 32 bit So looked up the 64 bit version for you above HTH Oh, one more thing I found I had to reload twice for some reason the samsung screen install disk ? now its fine running tyhe syncmaster 2243 on that older box cheers -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Help with Graphics Problem on New Machine using Koala
Thanks for the reply, Guys. Sorry about the lack of info in my initial post. Opening a terminal and doing lspci | grep VGA gives me the folowing: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10) Now, I'm a little green on this, but if there was a Nvidia Geforce installed would there not be some sort of reference to it here (terminal output), proving it's existence? And adding to this, when I took delivery of the machine, the first thing I did was to go to the Nvidia site, and downloaded: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.36-pkg2.run believing the Nvidia Geforce was supplied as advertised. I got to the point of running the install after doing the chmod +x and then running, and so forth but, unsurprisingly received: WARNING: You do not appear to have an NVIDIA GPU supported by the 185.18.36 NVIDIA Linux graphics driver installed in this system. I think from the feedback on this, my crystal ball is telling me to save the stress and just buy a compatible card. I think most Nvidia cards are pretty safe, aren't they? I'm not hoping to do anything special. It's just getting a bit frustrating when doing things like browsing in Fox and you have to scroll like eighteen meters to the right to read the whole page (a little exaggerated, but you get my point). Once again, many thanks for the response on this. It is very much appreciated. Regards, Rob -- === Local Id: OPM595 Email: opm...@yahoo.com.au PO Box 190, Narellan NSW 2567 Australia Aude aliquid dignum - Dare Something Worthy === -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
