Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loosy splah screen after update to 10.10
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Pallottini Aymeric wrote: > I have got an Acer Revo, that I have updated from ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10. > After the update the splash screen is not the usual graphic one, it is a > simple bit of text displaying "ubuntu 10.10 and some dots, with even some of > the events of the boot process being displayed. The same when shutting down > the machine. > > Is somebody experiencing this also? Can I get back the nice splash screen? I had related problems - the graphics on the Plymouth graphical loader screen were corrupted. Also my Thinkpad would not wake from sleep or hibernation. The instructions I posted elsewhere might be helpful for you... My issues weren't exactly the same, but similar. To resolve the sleep issue, I added "nomodeset" to the kernel parameters. This enabled the machine to suspend and resume correctly, including hibernation. Unlike 10.04, in 10.10 the X server starts normally in 1024×768/16M colours and the machine is perfectly usable. I amended the following line by adding "nomodeset" to the end in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset" I then ran update-grub to enable the change. However, the nomodeset line means that the plymouth graphical loading screen no longer works. It is replaced with a text-based one. In the hope of at least running in the native resolution of the LCD and getting a smoother text loading screen, I added a vga mode parameter to the same line, as follows: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset vga=792" This not only worked and reset the console resolution to 1024×768, but it also re-enabled the graphical loading screen, which furthermore now appeared with the correct colour palette, removing the coloured fringes that had affected the default install. I then dropped the X screen from 16M colours to 65K colours, which gives a sharp increase in display performance & enables me to use dual-head with an external monitor running at 1280×1024. I have documented how I did this in a blog post here: http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/20637.html I then amended the GRUB line so that the bootup screen mode was the same as the X one: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset vga=791" The result is that everything now works: graphical startup & shutdown, suspend & resume, hibernation, and a fast X display which supports dual-head operation. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using HTC phone via Ubuntu Internet connection
Josh Holland wrote: > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 20:40 +, alan c wrote: > >> This is 'tethering' I believe. >> >> On my Android Pulse (T Mobile brand) (early Android version too I >> guess), I found I needed an app. >> >> > > To drift slightly off the original topic, I also have a T-Mobile Pulse, > which I could tether to my 10.04 (not needed to use it since upgrading > to 10.10) netbook without having to install anything extra on either the > phone or the computer. It was a simple case of plugging the phone in > with the USB cable, then opening a terminal and using the command > > $ sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1501 product=0x12d1 > > (I can't remember the exact vendor/product numbers; you can check them > by issuing the "lsusb" command.) > > The phone then appeared in the Network Manager applet, and could be > selected and its internet used without any fuss. > > Josh > > > > I tried various suggestions, but so far nothing works. The Ubuntu PC sees the phone on usb0, and it has an IP address, which I can successfully ping. But on the phone, it just says under "Internet Pass-through" in the Wireless & Networks settings: "Turning on..." and this text is in grey with no sign of the phone connecting. And then it comes up with a dialog box on the phone saying it was unable to connect to PC. I also tried connecting my phone to a friend's laptop running Ubuntu 10.10 and it would not work there either. The lsusb command gives the following info for the phone: Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0bb4:0ff9 High Tech Computer Corp. I assume therefore that your command you gave would be entered as: $ sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0bb4 product=0x0ff9 I could not find Network Manager, but I did try System/Administration/Network Tools (in Ubuntu 9.04). David -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good morning and HELLO to all
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:12 AM, looba lou wrote: > My name is Louis Millwood AKA Looba or Loobbalou as i go,im a 33 y.o male > from just outside Manchester. > Ive only been using Ubuntu seriously for a 10 days and a week of that i > was off-line with HDD failure so realy only about a couple days. > So im still quite taken back with how it works and how much is available at > just a click or 2 of a mouse away.ITS AWSOME. > Ive got go a good knowledge base on computers and computing so im sure it > wont take me that loong, i am quite looking forward to challenge. > Ive started using linux as an OS because ive seen it as natural progression > the my learning of computers of which i am all self taught. i realy do want > make a big > push towards becoming a developer and realy taking full advantage of the > tools and people within the community. So i hope im going to an asset not > just to the uk development the over all progresion of Ubuntu. > > Nice to get my 1st post up on the forum, am looking forward to meeting > working with you all im > > thanks for reading my intro hope uve enjoyed and ill chat chow for now > peeps > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > Hi Louis Welcome to the world of Ubuntu, and you are joining us at the right time. Manchester has a number of Free Software, and Linux User Groups, and is home to the best Ubuntu / Debian conference in the North, Ucubed http://lespounder.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/ucubed-28th-august-2010/ We are organising another event for April 2011, and I do hope that you can come. In the meantime welcome to the mailing list, and here are a few links for you to look at http://madlab.org.uk/content/manchester-free-software/ http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/ Les @biglesp on identi.ca / twitter -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading
On 15 November 2010 12:29, wrote: > Fighting for the old ways here; with a seperate partition, you can share your > /home with multiple installs :) Often this is ok, but you can run into problems if you run different versions of an app using the same /home as the settings files get flipped up and down across the versions. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading
Fighting for the old ways here; with a seperate partition, you can share your /home with multiple installs :) Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: gazz Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:22:53 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Reply-To: pmg...@gmx.co.uk, UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 00:04 +, Alan Pope wrote: > On 13 November 2010 22:42, wrote: > > I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't > > remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home, > > It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature. > > > and if you were doing it manually and didn't specify a mount point for > > /home and didn't format / then would anything actually happen? > > > > If you were doing manual partitioning over the top of an existing > linux install (i.e. a filesystem exists which contains /bin /etc /var > /usr /home and so on, and you choose not to format that filesystem, > and you choose to install on it, then it will recursively delete all > files in /bin /etc /var /usr and so on, but _not_ touch /home within > that filesystem. > > I find myself explaining this to people about once a month. It's such > a hidden gem of a feature so many people don't know about it, but it's > the single most useful "upgrade without upgrading" feature. > > Al. > I found out by accident cos I had /home on a separate partition in the old-fashioned way - but still didn't know you could still do it with /home on the root partition - it's a very useful tip so maybe put a how-to on the web and then you'll only have to post the link :) Paula <>-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
