Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 80, Issue 9
On Oct 28, 2012 3:35 PM, Jared Norris jrnor...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 October 2012 15:24, Bob Weis b...@weisfilms.com wrote: actually for a pc that only runs Ubuntu which of the available 12.1 do I download? The one I got seems to be for a Windows machine and won't boot from the hard drive anyway b Bob Weis Generation Films 28 Mary St St Kilda West Australia, 3182 Tel +61395371195 Mob +61408373756 Fax +61399236388 my web site for opinionated chat ourbookcircle.com Personally I use the AARNet mirror [1] because as a Telstra home broadband user it's downloads are unmetered and as an added bonus it also has great download speeds. The list of different types of 12.10 releases are available in their own folder [2]. And to make life easier I've included direct links to the 32 bit version [3] as well as the 64 bit version [4] so just feel free to grab whichever you need. If you need help installing it from the downloaded ISO the official guide is quite useful so I've got a link to that as well just in case [5]. Let us know if you have any more problems, glad to help out. [1] http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ [2] http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/12.10/ [3] http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/12.10/ubuntu-12.10-server-i386.iso [4] http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/12.10/ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64.iso [5] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-desktop-latest -- Regards, Jared Norris https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris The AARNet mirror also mirrors all of the official Ubuntu repositories as well as a few others. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 80, Issue 9
actually for a pc that only runs Ubuntu which of the available 12.1 do I download? The one I got seems to be for a Windows machine and won't boot from the hard drive anyway b Bob Weis Generation Films 28 Mary St St Kilda West Australia, 3182 Tel +61395371195 Mob +61408373756 Fax +61399236388 my web site for opinionated chat *ourbookcircle.com* On 25 October 2012 23:00, ubuntu-au-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Send ubuntu-au mailing list submissions to ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ubuntu-au-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com You can reach the person managing the list at ubuntu-au-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-au digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: 12.04 problem (Timothy Arceri) 2. Re: 12.04 problem (Paul Gear) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:48:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Timothy Arceri t_arc...@yahoo.com.au To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: 12.04 problem Message-ID: 1351154929.88548.yahoomail...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 What kind of graphics card do you have? You may be better off installing the proprietary drivers if you havent already. Tim - Hi, since I downloaded the latest version I have a white rectangle over the left hand side of the screen.? I have tried everything I know such as the Display tool and changing resolution or auto-detect displays to no avail.. If I put the mouse over the white space where I know a menu or control is the software reacts appropriately but it is flying blind.? Any thoughts would be gratefully received. For a while it showed laptop as the system type and that took a bit of fiddling to get rid of too Bob Weis Generation Films 28 Mary St St Kilda West Australia, 3182 Tel +61395371195 Mob +61408373756 Fax +61399236388 my web site for opinionated chat *ourbookcircle.com* -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:14:03 +1000 From: Paul Gear p...@libertysys.com.au To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: 12.04 problem Message-ID: 50891efb.7010...@libertysys.com.au Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; Format=flowed On 10/25/2012 06:48 PM, Timothy Arceri wrote: What kind of graphics card do you have? You may be better off installing the proprietary drivers if you havent already. +1 - or turn them off if you've already installed them. This really smacks of a driver problem. Also looking at backports for updated xorg* or linux-image* packages might be worthwhile. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: paul.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 203 bytes Desc: not available URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/attachments/20121025/fea3bc02/attachment-0001.vcf -- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au End of ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 80, Issue 9 -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 80, Issue 9
On 28 October 2012 15:24, Bob Weis b...@weisfilms.com wrote: actually for a pc that only runs Ubuntu which of the available 12.1 do I download? The one I got seems to be for a Windows machine and won't boot from the hard drive anyway b Bob Weis Generation Films 28 Mary St St Kilda West Australia, 3182 Tel +61395371195 Mob +61408373756 Fax +61399236388 my web site for opinionated chat ourbookcircle.com Personally I use the AARNet mirror [1] because as a Telstra home broadband user it's downloads are unmetered and as an added bonus it also has great download speeds. The list of different types of 12.10 releases are available in their own folder [2]. And to make life easier I've included direct links to the 32 bit version [3] as well as the 64 bit version [4] so just feel free to grab whichever you need. If you need help installing it from the downloaded ISO the official guide is quite useful so I've got a link to that as well just in case [5]. Let us know if you have any more problems, glad to help out. [1] http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ [2] http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/12.10/ [3] http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/12.10/ubuntu-12.10-server-i386.iso [4] http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/12.10/ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64.iso [5] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-desktop-latest -- Regards, Jared Norris https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 80, Issue 9
thanks all, I got rid of the Nvidia driver and the rest is done. I downloaded 12.1 but haven't installed it yet. More ... b Bob Weis Generation Films 28 Mary St St Kilda West Australia, 3182 Tel +61395371195 Mob +61408373756 Fax +61399236388 my web site for opinionated chat *ourbookcircle.com* On 25 October 2012 23:00, ubuntu-au-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Send ubuntu-au mailing list submissions to ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ubuntu-au-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com You can reach the person managing the list at ubuntu-au-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-au digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: 12.04 problem (Timothy Arceri) 2. Re: 12.04 problem (Paul Gear) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:48:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Timothy Arceri t_arc...@yahoo.com.au To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: 12.04 problem Message-ID: 1351154929.88548.yahoomail...@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 What kind of graphics card do you have? You may be better off installing the proprietary drivers if you havent already. Tim - Hi, since I downloaded the latest version I have a white rectangle over the left hand side of the screen.? I have tried everything I know such as the Display tool and changing resolution or auto-detect displays to no avail.. If I put the mouse over the white space where I know a menu or control is the software reacts appropriately but it is flying blind.? Any thoughts would be gratefully received. For a while it showed laptop as the system type and that took a bit of fiddling to get rid of too Bob Weis Generation Films 28 Mary St St Kilda West Australia, 3182 Tel +61395371195 Mob +61408373756 Fax +61399236388 my web site for opinionated chat *ourbookcircle.com* -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:14:03 +1000 From: Paul Gear p...@libertysys.com.au To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: 12.04 problem Message-ID: 50891efb.7010...@libertysys.com.au Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; Format=flowed On 10/25/2012 06:48 PM, Timothy Arceri wrote: What kind of graphics card do you have? You may be better off installing the proprietary drivers if you havent already. +1 - or turn them off if you've already installed them. This really smacks of a driver problem. Also looking at backports for updated xorg* or linux-image* packages might be worthwhile. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: paul.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 203 bytes Desc: not available URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/attachments/20121025/fea3bc02/attachment-0001.vcf -- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au End of ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 80, Issue 9 -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
