Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV with Nova-T 500 Dual card [was: Dells with Ubuntu]

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 5/31/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 31/05/07, Eamonn Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 5/30/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > contains a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual card which is not 100% working in
> > > Linux yet.
> >
> > Interesting point. I was looking carefully at their dual-tuner
> > offering, since they're selling it for probably less than it would
> > cost me to build one. But I don't want to buy something that doesn't
> > work. Can you be more specific about what's not working right now with
> > those tuner cards?
>
> It's implemented in hardware as a pci device containing a usb hub with
> two tuners.  There's a bug in the kernel usb-core code which causes
> kernel oopsen under certain conditions!  While the oops was fixed (in
> the latest v4l-dvb, which you'll have to compile yourself from
> Mercurial), it can still get the usb disconnect event randomly or just
> fail to read from or write to the device.  Turning off EIT (which
> contains program information encoded in the stream itself) seems to
> reduce the frequency of the failures, but it is still remarkably
> flakey even then.  Restarting myth-backend (and sometimes reloading
> the modules) is necessary to get it working again.  Rather annoying if
> you had set it to record stuff while away on holiday or something!
>
> So, basically it works well, but will stop working randomly from time
> to time, and can still sometimes cause a kernel oops.

Hmm... occassional kernel oops isn't want you want from an appliance.
Thanks for the info. Maybe i'll stick with my plan to build one (I
would have used a faster processor, and maybe latest Intel motherboard
graphics to avoid the proprietary drivers) and use an older, more
supported TV card.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 5/30/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 30/05/07, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I Stumbled this website last night http://efficientpc.co.uk/ - selling
> > Ubuntu pre-installed in the UK.
>
> I'm sure there's a handful of small companies doing this already, but
> nice to know there's another!
>
> Interestingly, their top offering under the "MythTV" category:
>
> http://efficientpc.co.uk/index.php?cPath=23
>
> contains a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual card which is not 100% working in
> Linux yet.

Interesting point. I was looking carefully at their dual-tuner
offering, since they're selling it for probably less than it would
cost me to build one. But I don't want to buy something that doesn't
work. Can you be more specific about what's not working right now with
those tuner cards?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Signing into Ubuntu from Windows

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 5/30/07, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am sure this is finger trouble on my part.  I have a small home
> network.  I can not get into my shared Ubuntu folders from windows.
> SAMBA is running.
>
> I click on the computer, am asked for a user name and password, and am
> asked for a user name and password, and so on.  Never get passed the
> opening (log on?) screen.
>
> Thanks in advance.

I believe you need to create a Samba user. Try:

sudo smbpasswd username

(where username is what you want to call the account used to access
the shares from Windows).

Type your password first, then password for the new account twice.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to Fiesty

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 4/17/07, ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - From Gnome, press +
> > - Type the following into the run box:
> >   gksudo 'update-manager -c -d'
[snip]
> Do you have to edit the sources.list to point to the new release ?

No. update-manager does that for you automatically.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to Fiesty

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 4/17/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (gksu "update-manager -c" )
>
> Hey.
>
> Can anyone point we towards any documentation for the switches used
> after update-manager ? -c -d  etc

I got this by typing update-manager --help in a terminal:

Usage: update-manager [options]

Options:
  -h, --helpshow this help message and exit
  -c, --check-dist-upgrades
Check if a new distribution release is available
  -d, --devel-release   Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is
possible
  -p, --proposedTry to run a dist-upgrade
  --dist-upgrade, --dist-ugprade
Try to run a dist-upgrade

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Forgot his password after installing Ubuntu

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 4/12/07, Robin Menneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a colleague who had help from a friend (more knowledgeable than I am)
> in loading Ubuntu from the web via apple-mac and a PC emulation.  Between
> the two of them, they have forgotten the Ubuntu password and don't think
> that either wrote it down.  Is the only solution to load it again, or is
> there a simple (it's got to be thickie-proof) short cut?  If a new load is
> the only route, presumably,by default, it overwrites the earlier install?
> Will Ubuntu go easily on or with Tiger/Leopard ?  I would have thought that
> Ubuntu would co-exist happier with Unix-based Tiger than on a PC-emulation

I believe (I'm not at Ubuntu right now) that you can choose the
"recovery" option on the bootup screen and then run the following at
the "#" prompt:

passwd username

substituting "username" for the person's account name. That'll let you
create a new password.

That's not too hard, is it?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] celebrating Fiesty

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 4/12/07, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> > On 4/12/07, Seif Attar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, and welcome! I see this is about 10 minutes walk from my
> > office, so I'd like to attend too, just for the atmosphere. (It starts
> > a bit early for me, though.) I'm sure you won't be the only one there
> > who isn't trying to mug a VC!
> >
> What's VC? Venture Capitalist, perhaps?
>
> Not obvious to me... apologies...

yes, sorry for the jargon: venture capitalist.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] celebrating Fiesty

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 4/12/07, Seif Attar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > > For those of you in the London area, you might want to stop by the
> > > upcoming mini-bar event on 20 April to help celebrate the release of
> > > Ubuntu 7.04.
> > >
> > > Canonical is sponsoring the event, and Mark Shuttleworth will be
> > > speaking. Other Ubuntu folks (including Matt Zimmerman, me, others from
> > > London) will also be there.
> > >
> > > You can find out more at
> > >
> http://www.openbusiness.cc/2007/04/11/minibar-20th-of-april/
> and if you
> > > please to attend, please RSVP at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > 
> >
> > Maybe I'm thick and missed it, but I can't find any information in the
> > announcement about WHERE in London this is. Are minibar events held
> > always at the same place, so it's just unsaid?
>
> Hello, sorry this is my first post, and i am subscribed with digest, so if
> any1 has replied to this, I apologize, I couldn't find anything there
> either, but googling gave me this: http://barcamp.org/minibar
> i am quite interrested in going, but i got the impression that it's for
> businesses and people planning to start a project, I on the other hand would
> just like to go and listen to people chatting and join in if there is
> anything interresting, will I be out of place?  if the impression i got is
> right, then i have another question, is there a fesity launch party for
> london??

Thanks, and welcome! I see this is about 10 minutes walk from my
office, so I'd like to attend too, just for the atmosphere. (It starts
a bit early for me, though.) I'm sure you won't be the only one there
who isn't trying to mug a VC!

I'm a journalist. I no longer cover tech -- nowadays, it's European
legal affairs -- but I'm obviously still very interested in the goings
on.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] celebrating Fiesty

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 4/11/07, Jane Silber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks -
>
> For those of you in the London area, you might want to stop by the
> upcoming mini-bar event on 20 April to help celebrate the release of
> Ubuntu 7.04.
>
> Canonical is sponsoring the event, and Mark Shuttleworth will be
> speaking. Other Ubuntu folks (including Matt Zimmerman, me, others from
> London) will also be there.
>
> You can find out more at
> http://www.openbusiness.cc/2007/04/11/minibar-20th-of-april/ and if you
> please to attend, please RSVP at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Maybe I'm thick and missed it, but I can't find any information in the
announcement about WHERE in London this is. Are minibar events held
always at the same place, so it's just unsaid?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uninterruptible power supply question

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 3/7/07, David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have around 4 computers hanging off a 700VA APC SmartUPS, including
> one with an Antec power supply, and it's not fully loaded yet. 380VA
> should be more than enough for one server.
[snip]
> I have always liked APC SmartUPSs. I believe NUT is the software de
> jour.

Wow. That took about six minutes to get a very useful response. Thanks
very much!

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[ubuntu-uk] Uninterruptible power supply question

[Eamonn Sullivan]

Hi all,

I've just built a home/soho server and I'm hoping someone here could
help me with a couple of questions. It's a headless server (dual-core,
three 320GB hard drive with RAID5) where I'm running the increasingly
complicated applications that I use for home and work. It runs the
MoinMoin wiki, BackupPC, subversion and Samba filesharing, supportingr
two Ubuntu PCs, an iMac and a laptop.  (I have five children in
secondary/college/university, a busy nurse wife and I use the wiki and
subversion from both home and work -- that network gets *heavy*
use...)

I'm thinking of using a UPC for the first time. Quick questions:

- The server has a 500W power supply (an Antec Phantom), although I
did that on the hope that an overpowered power supply will be quieter
(and it's very quiet). Does that mean I need a UPS rated at 500W or
would a smaller one be OK? The £80-range ones do something like 380
watts. The 500W ones quickly get into the £200 range.

- Am I correct that, even in Feisty, all UPS-related software is in
universe? There's no fully-supported way of monitoring and reacting to
UPS signals?

- Does anyone have any recommendations on UPS/software combos?

Thanks in advance,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] installing SATA hard drives?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 3/6/07, Ben Thorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > On 06/03/07, Eamonn Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > . Ubuntu simply won't see the drives at all.
>  > >
>  > > -Eamonn
>  >
>  > Er...do you mean the live CD won't see the SATA drives or an install
>  > won't? Ubuntu (Dapper and Edgy) does see my SATA drives, Windows XP
>  > did not without a floppy drive and drivers to interrupt the install
>  > routine.
>
> I think he means that if you try the live CD and you can't see the SATA
> drives, then there's a good chance that you're going to have problems when
> you install. If you _can_ see them, then you won't.

yes, that's what I meant. Sorry, I trimmed the original message too much.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] installing SATA hard drives?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 3/5/07, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what sort of problems occur - drives not recognised or what? are there
> ways to work around problems or are you stuck with them?

In my experience, trying the LiveCD in the system will tell you right
away if there are problems. Ubuntu simply won't see the drives at all.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] installing SATA hard drives?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 3/5/07, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have not had any sata hard drives yet at all. My harware is various
> an dusualy a bit old.
>
> What is the situation with sata drives and  installs of (K)Ubuntu? is
> there any kind of complication  or difference from the way ata hard
> drives install? any need for initial install of anything?

I've been using SATA drives since Breezy, but the last two systems
I've built had Intel motherboards. I have heard problems occasionally
with various chipsets. Ironically, I ran into an issue with good-old
IDE in the last system I built last weekend (a dual-core server with a
relatively recent motherboard using the 965 Express chipset), while
the SATA part worked fine. I can't make any promises, but in general
they have worked for me.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] repository screwup!!!

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 3/5/07, STONE COLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hi,
> i need some help. I accidentaly deleted some repositories and now im getting 
> this error message.. and a constant little red box on the top toolbar ( 
> informing me of an error). here is the error message:
>
> E: Type '/etc/apt/sources.list' is not known on line 30 in source list 
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> Go to the repository dialogue to correct the problem.
> E: Type '/etc/apt/sources.list' is not known on line 30 in source list 
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> E: Unable to lock the list directory
>
> I have no idea what this means..i got this after putting 
> "/etc/apt/sources.list" in repostories, add , custom. I put in there...no 
> idea what it means! Please help!!!

No problem, just go back into repositories and take out that
"/etc/apt/sources.list" item. That's not a repository, it's the *list
of your repositories.* If that's the worst you do to Linux, you'll be
fine. :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Symlink?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

i'm not sure (I don't use KDE), but an easy way to check is to create
one and then open a terminal and run:

ls -l ~/Desktop

A symlink will show up as a oddly-coloured filename with a -> symbol
showing the original file it points to.

You create a symlink in the terminal with:

ln -s original linked-file-name

for example:

ln -s ~/test.txt ~/Desktop/test.txt

That would create a symlink on my desktop to a "test.txt" in my home directory.

I'm doing this blind, on Windows at work, so I may have some of the
syntax wrong.

-Eamonn


On 3/5/07, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am in the foothills of links.
> In KDE, say, on the desktop, a right click produces a context menu
> which includes
>
> Create new:
> link to location (URL)
> link to application
> link to device
>
> Are any of these a symlink?
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] IDE interface not recognized on a DG965 Intel motherboard

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 3/2/07, Paul Sladen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
>
> Hello Eamonn,
>
> > - Intel DG965RY motherboard
> > 02:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device
>
> You appear to be in the same boat (first hit on Google) as a Gentleman who
> signs himself off as Linus Torvalds:
>
>   http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg02096.html

oh, dear. More worrying is that the exchange (where he was rejecting
the Marvell driver) is more than six months old...

I wonder how much a USB CD drive costs these days?

Ironically, the Amazon partner from whom I bought the CD drive from
sent me an external one by mistake. I returned it for the internal
one. In hindsight, I would have been better off.

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[ubuntu-uk] IDE interface not recognized on a DG965 Intel motherboard

[Eamonn Sullivan]

Hi all, I made a classic error when assembling my own home server: I
forgot to check for Linux compatibility on all of the components.
Well, actually, I did, but made a last-minute decision, without
checking, to go with a different Intel motherboard because it had more
expansion. That stupid decision means all forms of Ubuntu (Dapper,
Edgy, latest daily builds of Feisty) can't find the IDE interface
where the CD/DVD drive is installed. The installation program loads
and starts, but then asks me where the CD drive is...

Before I start down a long and windy road of learning how to trick the
install program into loading from a USB pen drive or over the network
(which will be complicated in my setup at home), I wonder if anyone
else has run into this problem and can tell me of any magic spells
(i.e., boot options/bios settings) that can get this working?

Some details are in the bug report I've filed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/89228

My setup is as follows:

- Intel DG965RY motherboard
- Pentium D 820 dual core processor
- Lite-On CD/DVD writer on IDE (set as master, the only device on IDE)
- Three Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB hard drives, SATA-300
- 2GB of RAM in four 512M modules.

Everything appears to be recognized, including the on-board Intel
Ethernet and graphics. The only "unknown" in lspci is the following:

02:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device
6101 (rev b) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP Sec0 PriP PriO])
 Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
 I/O ports at 1018 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 1024 [size=4]
 I/O ports at 1010 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 1020 [size=4]
 Memory at 9010 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
 Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
 Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/0Enable-
 Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0

The text interface of the server-install (latest Feisty daily build)
loads and I'm asked to choose my language and keyboard. But then it
says it can't find my CD drive and I can't get beyond that point.

Google turns up various options for booting: all-generic-ide,
pci=nommconf, acpi=off -- none of that works.

I've also changed the bios a few times, trying native, legacy and AHCI
mode on the SATA drives. Linux seems to like AHCI the best, but
unfortunately, it doesn't affect the visibility of the CD drive at
all.

Has anyone run into this before and overcome it? Or am I too far off
in the bleeding edge?

Thanks in advance,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Acer Laptop

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 2/7/07, Celia Lawton-Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in putting Ubuntu 6.10 on my Acer laptop, probably as a dual
> boot to begin with.  How do I find out whether the hardware is compatible
> and will i need to download a program to control power management?

That's easy. Just put the Ubuntu CD in and reboot. It'll run a bit
slower off the CD, but you can check that everything is working that
way before installing (or modifying the hard disk in any way). One
sometimes troublesome area is wireless network. Report back, or to the
ubuntu-users list, if something doesn't work right away. Workarounds
are usually possible.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] make link to url on ubuntu desktop?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 2/3/07, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> make link to url on ubuntu desktop?

I may be missing something obvious, but to create a link to a url on
my desktop, I just click on the little fav icon at the beginning of
the url in Firefox's address bar (for example, the little envelope in
front of https://mail.google.com/mail/) and drag and drop it onto my
desktop.

If you're trying to do that from a shell script or something, the
*.desktop file that's created looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=link to Google Mail - [ubuntu-uk] make link to url on ubuntu desktop?
Type=Link
URL=https://mail.google.com/mail/
Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark
GenericName[en_US]=


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Could Linux (and Ubuntu) do more to encourage students?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 2/3/07, Robin Menneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've had a skirmish with f-spot and cannot get the download button to do
> other than to send me to a log-in page which won't recognise a user name -
> which one is this ?  I'm lower in the intelligence scale than your two dear
> ladies.  Help please.  Robin

Sorry, i didn't mean to imply lower intelligence, just unfamiliarity
with computers. What exactly are you trying to download? You should
have f-spot already under Applications/Graphics, unless I missed an
important point on this thread somewhere. What version of Ubuntu do
you have?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Could Linux (and Ubuntu) do more to encourage students?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 2/3/07, Robin Menneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the tips - Inskscape is already on my ubuntu package and I'll
> look at it.  Is there any equivalent to iphoto, a  brilliant apple mac
> program for simply tweaking photos ?  Robin

My wife and my mother ("Folder? What's a folder?") have found F-Spot
to be an acceptable alternative to iPhoto. I've been forcing them to
use it by putting the higher-end photo printer on Ubuntu and putting
the work-a-day homework printer on the Mac. (I don't have to worry
about them ever finding how to use a shared printer, although that's
perfectly possible...) F-Spot doesn't have the one-button "make my
photo look better" button that iPhoto has (which is brilliant), but it
has all the other features you'd normally use, like red-eye removal.

You can even upload photos easily to Flickr from F-Spot. The iPhoto
add-on to do that recently became shareware. I think F-Spot became the
default photo handler in the latest version, Edgy.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Latest Feisty

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 2/3/07, Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Think I will put 10.1 on and use Synaptic to upgrade it as I did on this box
> but I did want the cd to install on a neighbours box...Have you tried
> the Desktop
> version to see if that works ??

I should have mentioned, but yes I'm using the desktop version. I
don't want to use the alternate because I'm running it in LiveCD mode
just for testing on my Edgy laptop. (On my two desktop PCs running
Edgy, Feisty Herd 3 seems to work fine.)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Latest Feisty

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 2/3/07, Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just d/loaded the latest Feisty alternative cd and find it will
> not boot..
> It just hangs after the choose keyboard screen...I also tried the check
> software option
> and that starts but bombs out after a few seconds...I have checked the
> m5sum and]it is correct
> I also tried a torrent dload and this is the same...I have burned it at
> a slow rate to a high
> quality disk three times and all are the same...Has anyone got this
> running ok or is it a bug ??
>   I know the burner/disks are ok as I did a copy of Linux Mint at the
> same time

I'm having trouble with the Feisty series too. It eventually boots
(after 20 minutes or so), but udev bombs out and hal fails to start.
Network Manager also doesn't work, but i've never seen that work on
any machine, anywhere. (I'm gutted that piece of crap (for me) seems
to be getting all the mind share on all distributions.) The result is
that I can't even do a decent bug report. I can't get any of the log
files off of the laptop to post anywhere. Without hal, even a USB
stick fails to mount, and I don't have a floppy disk. This is on a
relatively mainstream IBM ThinkPad Z60 that installs perfectly (no
tweaking necessary) on Edgy and Dapper.

That said, it's still early in the development process. Since I'm in
London, I wonder if I can just bring this laptop to one of the core
developers and let them take a look. Any of them on this list?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reboot after libc6 upgrade?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 2/3/07, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should I reboot my system after applying an upgrade to libc6?
>
> I imagine that every process on the system is probably using this
> library and therefore they should all be restarted to pick up the new
> version.

I find the upgrade-manager is usually pretty good about telling you
whether you have to reboot or not, but it certainly doesn't hurt to
reboot. I didn't, and saw no ill effects. I think I've rebooted since
then, however. It's been a while since I updated libc.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Katapult

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 1/23/07, Sean Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Katapult is for KDE. On GNOME try gnome-launch-box or the deskbar panel 
> applet:

I'd second the recommendation for deskbar. Install it via synaptic or,
from a terminal do:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install deskbar-applet

Now, right click on the top or bottom panel (wherever you want the
applet) and choose deskbar. It's a bit more fiddly to set up than
Katapult, but potentially more useful. Right click on it, choose
preferences and turn on and reorder some of the extensions. On mine, I
have (in this order):

History
Programs
Del.icio.us Bookmarks
Dictionary
Beagle

Now, just press Alt-F3, begin typing the application you want to run
or whatever. Arrow down to your choice (if necessary) and press enter
to launch/open.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Katapult

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 1/23/07, Andrew Black (delete obvious bit)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone used Katapult?  This is installed on my Ubuntu machine but I
> can't see how to get it to do anything useful
>
> Runing gmome on Ubuntu Dapper

Katapult is a KDE program for launching applications using the
keyboard. I think you press alt-space and then begin typing the
program you want to launch and then press enter when it is recognized.
I don't know what, if anything, it does on Gnome.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] amazon

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 12/6/06, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu people.
>
> Has anyone had any problems getting the amazon.co.uk site to work with
> Firefox on Edgy? It seems not to like my password, which is the correct
> one (works with XP).

I use amazon way too much, or so my wife tells me. Works fine. Maybe
try changing your password (click on the "forgot password" link)?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] NTL Cable installation

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/9/06, David Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 09/11/06, Gary Kearley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am moving very soon, into an area which has NTL Cable, now I've never
> > had Cable before and need to know what I am dealing with.
> >
> Cable is pretty good always on internet.  Everything should just work
> if not go into System/Admin/Network and enable it.  Ntl have an on off
> track record apparently but I can't comment as I'm on telewest.

Telewest and NTL merged in 2004, if I remember correctly. It's all
part of the telecom industry's plan to simply our lives by reducing
choice... :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] NTL Cable installation

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/9/06, Gary Kearley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am moving very soon, into an area which has NTL Cable, now I've never
> had Cable before and need to know what I am dealing with.

I use Blueyonder, in the London area, which is part of Telewest (now
owned also by NTL). I have not had any problems.

You won't be able to reuse your current DSL modem. It'll be a cable
modem. It shouldn't matter at all. As long as what comes out the
*other* end is an ethernet cable, you just plug in and go.

If you get something that plugs into your USB port and not your
network card, that can be a little more troublesome. I have not had to
do this, and will let someone else chime in. I bet, however, that you
can tell NTL that your PC has a network card and they'll give you the
right equipment.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xbox ubuntu connection update!!!

[Eamonn Sullivan]

Excuse the top posting (I'm using my blackberry). To give everyone
read access to files in a directory (and all subdirctories), I'd do
chmod -R o+r *

-Eamonn

On 11/7/06, STONE COLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> so how do i do that?
>
>
> >From: Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: British Ubuntu Talk 
> >To: British Ubuntu Talk 
> >Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xbox ubuntu connection update!!!
> >Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:15:52 +
> >
> >STONE COLD wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > I did this and it worked.
> > >
> > > "Is it connected via a router or switch or by just a cable between the
> > > two machines?
> > >
> > > A simple way of sharing your folders is to goto System -> Administration
> > > -> Shared Folders.
> > >
> > > In the box that appears click Add.  When the Share Folder box appears
> > > select the path (I think it defaults to your home directory), make sure
> > > Share Through is set to Windows Networks (SMB) and then enter a name for
> > > the share.
> > >
> > > From the xbox end you need to choose SMB share I think, it has been a
> > > while since I browsed shares from the Xbox, I altered my
> > > xboxmediacenter.xml file to point to the shares on my PC & server"
> > >
> > > Now whilst i can see the folders on the xbox nothing actually displays
> >in
> > > those folders? I
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > >
> >Hmm, have you given your files permissions so everyone can read them?
> >
> >I occasionally have a problem when I create new directories that just
> >have Read/Write/eXecute permissions for the user rather than groups and
> >everyone and it won't let me display them.  A *chmod -r 777
> >directory-name* usually fixes this (I know, not a great security measure
> >but I'm too busy to sort them out at the moment).
> >
> >Rob
> >
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>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] del.icio.us (was: Re: Ubuntu Edgy Disks)

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/7/06, William Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> del.icio.us is fantastic, but I found the Firefox extension too restrictive.
>  It completely replaces the FF bookmark system (tho I suppose suppresses is
> a better word, since all your old bookmarks are still there, and disabling
> the extension returns the FF system to your browser).  I couldn't create
> folders in my Bookmarks Toolbar, something I rely on to save space, and
> using tags was a bit too unwieldy, especially after it had imported my 10
> years worth of bookmarks and automagically tagged them :)

That's why I still use the older del.icio.us extension (version 1.2).
It works fine with Firefox 2. The new one also disables Google Browser
Sync, which I use to keep my Ubuntu, Windows (at work) and iMac in
sync.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dapper and Cups in a school environment

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/6/06, Alistair Crust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adding the printer is where I have problems. As soon as I finish the
> setup and click add printer the page asks me to upgrade or access
> the /admin via https. If this https has been complied out by the package
> maintainers upstream then why is it still asking me for https when
> adding a printer? It just doesn't make sense to me.

I know approximately zero about cups, but I do know there aren't any
licensing issues with https and that it's quite easy to set up an
SSL-enabled server. I use my own, with a MoinMoin wiki that I access
while at the office or on the road. There are a load of SSL tutorials
on the Web. This was on the first page on a google search:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/349

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding the question...

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad - how to unregister?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/5/06, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject says it all.  I really HATE systems that make you register and
> then have no un-register feature.

I didn't immediately spot an easy way to do that. I think *not* being
able to easy delete all of your personal details is a violation of
European data protection rules. The Office of Fair Trading (or some
similar organization) recently fined eBay for the same reason. I'd
send a message to the admins:

https://launchpad.net/people/admins

I like launchpad, and will keep my account there anyway, but it
definitely would be nice to be able to leave easily if you want to.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leader Vote

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/4/06, Nik Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can I just point out that :
>
> Approval Application needs to take some level of  precedence this wee,
> if not tommorow.  Jono got up and showed a world Map of  LocoTeams in
> who were Approved and who were awaiting approval. He stood in the Expo
> and   told people that we would be getting approved very soon. So
> forgive me if I want to draw everyones attention to the link and ask
> people to consider how and why they contribute to the UKTeam
> application. Once you have done that then lets go back to looking at who
> gets to take the flak for the next 12 months. Please this is very
> important to Jono and to me and to a number of UK Ubuntu developers so
> can I ask we just agree to the following
>
> Lets look at the application
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ApprovalApplication

This looks like a great application to me. I like the Ubuntu Buddies
and the Developer Mentoring, in particular. Forgive my ignorance about
the process you're describing, but what do you mean by approve?

>
> Then set next Saturday as the closing vote for UKTeam Leader

I think I agree with an earlier message in the thread. You're already
the leader. Your first task is to set up a process for picking the
next one, in a year.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leader Vote

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/4/06, Nicholas Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> or we could use that  um how do we use that ?
>
> Actually it leads to the interesting question of how many members are on
> launchpad vs how many are in the Mail List ?

Good question, actually. I don't know how to create a poll on
Launchpad. It's not obvious. Does anyone know how to use the polls
feature on Launchpad?

If not, then the wiki page you suggested would be fine.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leader Vote

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/4/06, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Currently, Nik Butler is doing a fantastic job as our interim leader.
>
> However, in the spirit of democracy, it has been suggested that this
> should be confirmed (or denied) by a vote.
>
> Might I suggest a deadline of tomorrow evening, Sunday the 5th of
> November 2006, at 23:00 BST to nominate and second any other
> contenders[1] so that we can get this over and done with and move on
> with more important things.
>
> In the case that there is more than one candidate, the vote will be
> decided by a simple majority vote system.

And can I suggest we use the poll system on Launchpad, so that we
don't all get 100 or so aye/nay messages?

https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-uk/+polls

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uk Loco team forums

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/3/06, Nicholas Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joseph,
>
> Thanks for the offer and I can clearly see there is a very robust set of
> positions regarding Forums usage. I know we had this conversation before
> and felt at the time the Maillist suited the assemblage of current
> Ubuntu UK Team members. However in the strictest sense of any community
> project there is absolutely nothing stopping you or anyone simply
> creating the forums and letting people know they are avialable to use. I
> realise that people dont want to split the community but the community
> is at its best when it self organises and to that end opportunities
> cannot really be defined or restricted by technical demerits or
> specifications. So   nothing stops the forums being created and we can
> add them to the Wiki so people know they are there. If they are
> succesful im sure they will thrive and I am sure it will widen to
> audience of potential UK Members. It will be a shame though that as a
> result of this that some efforts may become duplicated and some
> communication will be missed.
>
> My personal preferences are to use the Mailing list, however if a Forum
> exists I will make sure I drop in and keep an eye on it and let people
> know about the mailing list and the archvies and the thriving
> communication we have here as well as the IRC Channels.
>
> Can I assume this has been the consensus of the group ?
>
>
> And So say all of us ?[1]

It usually doesn't hurt to increase the options, so I could support
this, even if I'm unlikely ever to visit the forums. Isn't the phrase
"So say us all"?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uk Loco team forums

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/2/06, Kenny Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eamonn,
>
> Im not sure that you've really missed anything. My mail did imply a decision
> had been made, which I don't think it has.

No, that's fine. Wasn't criticising, I was just honestly asking. I
jump in and out of the list when I have time and I remember some
heated discussion around this issue a while back. I thought I had
missed a conclusion.

>
> However I do think it is a good way for new users to use as a resource. I
> believe the list is good for people interested in getting involved in
> ubuntu-uk (im not suggesting the list should be exclusive). I believe new
> users would find it easier to use a forum to get assistance. Personally, I
> find searching forums easier than mailing lists. Also, users can attend the
> forums when they have a need for assistance and can search for an answer or
> post for help. This way they don't need to be subscribed to the mailing list
> getting daily mails when they actually don't want or need the content of
> these mails.

There is a definitely advantage to Web forums for people who don't
want or need to subscribe to an email list, plus it makes it a bit
easier to find solutions to common problems with a Google search. My
only hesitation is that I wouldn't want an already (relatively) small
community to be split further. The ubuntu-users list and the forums
are completely different communities, as far as I can tell, and I
wouldn't want the same thing to happen to ubuntu-uk.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uk Loco team forums

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/2/06, Kenny Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think it would be great to have a ubuntu-uk forum, and I would also be
> happy to volunteer my services in forum moderation.
>
> I also agree with Daniel, regarding the use of a proprietry system being
> counter productive to the message we are spreading. However, whilst Ubuntu
> links to it as its primary function, I think we should follow-suit to
> maintain the consistency between ubuntu-uk and ubuntu.
> Possibly Jono could comment if this is an issue that has been raised before,
> and if there are any plans in the pipeline to migrate away from it. Either
> by linking to another forum site from ubuntu.com, moving the forums onto a
> ubuntu subdomain (such as forum.ubuntu.com/uk) or by the existing site owner
> migrating to a different forum system.
>
> I note that some of the other language forums offered from ubuntu.com are
> subdomains of ubuntu.org such as forum.ubuntu.org/cn (china) running phpbb.
> Whilst many others are on other domains. Clearly there is some community
> inconsistency with regard the forum locations and software.

I must have missed something: When was it decided that forums are a
good idea? I don't have time to keep up with the mailing lists, let
alone a forum. Will I not be able to lurk while keeping up with
things, or will the mailing list continue as before?

I'm hoping the forums don't mean that all the youngsters will
disappear, leaving us hairy-knuckled old timers to occupy the
Internet's back alley. What about mirroring, as (I think) was used on
ubuntu-users for a while?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] flashplayer 7

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/1/06, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 18:17 +0000, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> > On 11/1/06, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm getting annoyed at the number of websites that are 'failing' on Edgy
> > > because they want flashplay 7. What is the most up to date version for
> > > linux, I can't find anything above 5?.
> > >
> > > Any poss of FP7 coming out for us soon?
> >
> > There's an unofficial repository that has the flash 9 beta for edgy,
> > described here:
> >
> > http://blogs.ubuntu-nl.org/dennis/2006/10/19/as-promised-edgy-seveas-is-finally-here/
> >
>
> Where can I find the bit I need to add to my apt list?
>

deb http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/ edgy-seveas extras custom
deb-src http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/ edgy-seveas extras custom

Again, that's assuming you are using Edgy.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] flashplayer 7

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 11/1/06, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm getting annoyed at the number of websites that are 'failing' on Edgy
> because they want flashplay 7. What is the most up to date version for
> linux, I can't find anything above 5?.
>
> Any poss of FP7 coming out for us soon?

There's an unofficial repository that has the flash 9 beta for edgy,
described here:

http://blogs.ubuntu-nl.org/dennis/2006/10/19/as-promised-edgy-seveas-is-finally-here/

I've been using it and it *seems* OK, although my kids are complaining
that some YouTube videos stop half way. That could be considered a
feature...

You didn't mention what version of Ubuntu you are using. I wouldn't
try this on Dapper.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 6.10 beta released, anybody being brave?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 10/2/06, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see the beta release of 6.10 is now available.
> http://www.ubuntu.com/news/EdgyBeta
>
> Is anybody being brave and giving it a go? ;-)

I upgraded one of my two Dapper machines on Saturday. I had one
problem that a newbie would have had a great deal of difficulty
getting over. One package, Network Services Caching Daemon, wouldn't
upgrade and the whole processes threatened to end right there, leaving
a half-finished, useless machine. I had to edit a dpkg script and an
init script. I also had one problem that caused about a dozen or so
python packages to be held back, which was easier to work around
(remove some python2.4 packages and reinstall). Both bugs have been
reported and I commented on them. Not many people use nscd, I'd
imagine. It's mostly to improve performance of LDAP.

Since then, the machine has been running fine, except for one crash
that brought down Xorg. I've also reported that one.

All-in-all, it has been the usual beta-level problems. The changes
aren't huge, as far as I can see. Firefox is at 2.0beta3 and there's
an entirely new (and invisible, to the user) startup system called
upstart.

If you're techy and feel confident you can get out of hot water, give
it a try. If not, and you still want to see it in action, download the
LiveCD and play with it that way.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 9/21/06, Alan Helmore-Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> We had a college IT teacher in the
> >> hacklab once, he explained that even if he wants to teach some free
> >> software he can't, they are locked in a contract with microsoft by which
> >> they can not install any other software on the machines.
> >
> > Is that legal? I would have thought it was anti-competitive. Maybe
> > there can be another European law suit, anyone know what happened with
> > the last one btw?
>
>
> MS used to offer very significant discounts to educational establishments,
> and NGO's (Essentially its almost free), I would guess that they could
> attach conditions to that 'discount' if they wanted and thereby get around
> the antitrust laws.
>
> BTW I am not suggesting that is WHAT they do, merely that they probably
> COULD.
>
> The European antitrust case is still running in part, I seem to recall that
> they were ordered to de-bundle some stuff (Was it media player?), and fined
> a shed load of money, but think they have several more shed loads of money
> (See Bug #1 - https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1)

My day job is editing news stories on this (and others). MS was
required to sell a version of XP that didn't have a media player,
which no one bought, unsurprisingly. They were also fined about a
half-billion euros and another about 280M more recently. (All of that
amounts to about two-three weeks of cash flow for the company, btw.)

Microsoft was also told to document their network protocols
sufficiently to allow competitors to essentially replace XP on some of
its network services. A bone of contention in this is whether FOSS
developers can benefit. Microsoft, at the moment, is allowed to charge
royalties, which makes it impossible for anything open-source to use
the material.

The decision is still working its way through the courts and will keep
me gainfully employed for another few years. I've been covering
Microsoft v antitrust regulators since the early 1990s, in one form or
another.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Meet @ LinuxWorld London - Wed 25th Oct 2006

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 9/8/06, Matthew Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 08/09/06, Jono Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, I am proposing we meet in the .org village on Wed 25th Oct at
> > 2.30pm.
> >
> > Can anyone make it along?
>
> Sounds like a good idea. Do you think we could organise a weekend
> meet, some time after, for those who can't make it down?

Seconded. My spine is fused to a desk in the City during the week, but
could possibly trick spouse into letting me out for a weekend meet.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dapper - Can't write to removable disks

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 9/4/06, Llywelyn Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having some trouble writing to removable USB disks. Although drag and drop
> seems to work ie I can see and open the moved/copied file/directory, when I
> try to open it in SUSE 10.1 it's not there, occasionally it will succeed in
> copying to the disk but very rarely. The same happens with a USB HDD, I even
> get the copy progress meter, but again nothing there. Everything works fine
> in the opposite direction ie SUSE ---> Dapper
>
> I've tried other non linux OSs and it works OK, but not under Dapper even
> after a VFAT reformat. Is a permission issue?
>
> Any help would be well appreciated, it's getting to the point that I'm
> beginning to think Windows thoughts about Dapper!

I've not had this problem, but my initial question is whether you are
probably unmounting the drive under linux. (Right click, choose
unmount, I think.) The reason is that writes to USB-connected flash
drives are buffered in Linux. The file will appear to copy, but
actually was only written to a memory buffer and not written to the
actual drive until some seconds/minute or two later. When you unmount
the drive, that memory buffer is cleared and actually written to the
disk. Make sense?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Code of conduct/GPG

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 9/1/06, Steve Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to get to the bottom of what GPG is and how it works.  I
> can't find a description that covers the absolute basics of what it
> is, would anyone care to explain to me?  Does it have anything to do
> at all with the actual computer you create it on, or is it just
> completely random?  How does it actually provide proof of
> identification, etc in practise?

That's a long and involved topic, I'm afraid. I'd start with the
fairly good Wikipedia article on public-key cryptography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

And then move on to the GnuPG (GPG) handbook:

http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html

It's not something that can really be summed up in a few sentences in
an email message. I assume you are interested because you need a GPG
key to sign the Code of Conduct? You could probably jump right to the
GPG handbook if you don't need convincing on how public-key
cryptography works.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] xserver-xorg

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 8/22/06, Keith Bowerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There was an update of the above announced on my machine this morning
> and I dutifully went ahead and downloaded it.  I was running Dapper and
> Linux 2.6.15-26-386.
>
> On returning home and booting up after lunch I find that I am without a
> desktop.  At present I am using Hoary to send this email.
>
> I am merely an Ubunbtu user and have no knowledge of the finer workings
> of the command line.
>
> Perhaps someone can suggest how I can get back to the Dapper desktop.  I
> would be most appreciative.
>
> Many thanks,

A lot of people are having a similar problem. There was a mistake made
(I believe) in the last batch of updates. Here's a thread with
suggestions on how to fix the problem:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241254

Hope that helps,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Here's one request that may be better handled on the U.K. list

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 5/2/06, john levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Don't know about PC World, but The Linux Emporium do Ralink cards, that
as they say 'run out-of-the-box with Ubuntu 5.10':
http://linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/

HTH

John


Perfect. And cheap, too. Thanks much!

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[ubuntu-uk] Here's one request that may be better handled on the U.K. list

[Eamonn Sullivan]

I'm aiming to update to Dapper soon and do a clean install. My current
system has been dist-upgraded in stages from Warty preview to Breezy
(and many of the tests in between) and is getting a bit crufty. I use
my ubuntu desktop on a wireless network, connected to an iMac and
Windows PC.

Unfortunately, the Ubuntu machine uses a Netgear PCI card that only
works with ndiswrapper, which means it isn't automatically recognized
by Dapper and is a pain to upgrade. Can anyone recommend a PCI
wireless card, which is available at PC World or something similar,
that *is* automatically recognized and used by Ubuntu, without any
dodgy ndis layer?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Not as impressed with Breezy

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 24/10/05, Wiehe, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Over the weekend I decided to upgrade my Hoary box to Breezy. I followed the
> instructions but it didn't go very smoothly. I lost X despite making sure I
> had the required desktop packages etc., I got a load of errors with the
> xorg-common package.
>
> I eventually got it back by doing a command-line install of the ubuntu-desktop
> package, but it was painful. Unlike my move from Warty to Hoary which was
> completely painless.

My upgrade was similarly less-than-trouble-free, but so was moving to
Hoary from Warty. In each case, I had to repeat the sudo apt-get
dist-upgrade several times, dpkg-reconfigure X and work through at
least one blockage. For example, I had to remove a troublesome package
before the dist-upgrade would continue in Hoary and --force-overwrite
another going to Breezy.

But then both were a cakewalk compared with upgrading one Windows
version to another, though those are obviously years apart. Plus I
have an annoying habit of tinkering with my system constantly, so I've
always assumed many of those glitches were my own fault. Also, I
dist-upgrade each time about a month before official release (well
after the software is frozen and before the preview release).

In other words, it hasn't been painless, but I'm still amazed it
works. I wasn't a debian person before (TAMU->Slackware->Red Hat), so
I don't know how Ubuntu compares. Is it better or worse going from one
Debian release to another?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] I would like to play dvd

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 24/10/05, Oren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> At last, I managed to get my network connection. Hurrraaa.
> Now, I am absolutely struggling with getting sense out of Totem.
> But not only Totem. All I want to do is play my DVD's and AVI's.
>
> I have installed libdvdcss2 and re-installed it. I seem to have the
> Gstreamer lib installed.
>
> Can someone please help me? I am sure someone out there has managed to
> get it working.

I'd recommend installing VLC, which has always worked very well for me
playing DVDs.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD-RAM Drive shows as CD-ROM drive

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 17/10/05, Shelley & Oren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi all
>
>
>
> Complete and utter noob here.
>
>
>
> I am definitely going ahead with a new installation of Ubantu 5.10 today.
>
> However, over the weekend, I was toying with the live CD.
>
> One thing I noticed was that Ubuntu showed my DVD-RAM drive (LG GSA-4160B)
> as a CD-ROM drive.

I have a DVD drive and it appears as a CD-ROM. It definitely *works*
as a DVD, however. We watch movies on Ubuntu all the time. When
running the live CD, if you put a blank DVD in there, does it offer to
write to it? Have you tried it? It might just work.

The CD-RW drive we have on a Windows PC actually works much better in
Linux than it does in Windows. I had a burn a CD recently and the
easiest method was just reboot the PC with the Breezy live CD, grab
the data via Samba from the Ubuntu PC and then burn it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] boot splash gone

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 01/10/05, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, I've fixed mine with, sudo update-alternatives --auto
> usplash-artwork.so then, sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r).
> I've also noticed that little gui for editing the grub menu list has
> gone, which is a shame because it was a handy tool on duel booting
> systems.
>
> Baza

Thanks, that did it for me too. I tried the second, but not the first.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] boot splash gone

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 01/10/05, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, after that large update yesterday my boot splash has gone. Anyone
> else had this happen to them? I'm using Breezy.

Yes, it stopped working for me this morning too, but I can't find any
usplash-related error messages. Still looking, if I find one, I'll
file to bugzilla. I don't see any related discussion on the general
user list yet, but that's not unusual. (Given our time zone, we're
often the first to spot any problems with new patches.)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] breezy

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 15/09/05, Baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ello, I've took the plunge and upgraded to Breezy via dist-upgrade.
> It all works well, stable etc. Only thing is, I don't get a, 'splash
> screen' when I'm sure breezy has one? Any ideas why?

try:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`

Then reboot. 

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Switching Users

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 12/09/05, Gordon Burgess-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In Hoary 5.04 I don't see any option to be able to switch users (as
> opposed to logging out and logging on as a new user). Is there such a
> facility and if so how do you access it?
> 

Try Applications/System Tools/New Login.

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