Re: Feisty to Gutsy upgrade : Notes to self...

2007-10-24 Thread Vik Olliver
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, John Carter wrote: > > The fiesty to Gutsy ubuntu upgrade is a nightmare in the presence > of SMP and 7xxx or 6xxx Nvidia cards cause frequent lockups. Not a Gutsy problem per se as it's the Nvidia driver. But the solution is to downgrade the Nvidia driver while Nvidia

Re: konsole session profiles

2007-10-24 Thread Roger Searle
One solution (which is enough for me!) I discovered is to create a new link to application, with the command konsole --profile and put that in the autostart folder. Having first saved the profile... Roger Roger Searle wrote: Ross Drummond wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:53, Roger Searle wr

Re: Tip of the day: Gnome Keyboard shortcuts and full screen everything.

2007-10-24 Thread Michael JasonSmith
> Hmm. Perhaps I can set my colour scheme to back ye olde nice gloomy > "green screen"... If you want gloomy, you can always try the “High Contrast Inverse” GNOME theme. Or is the large print variant needed… ☺ -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer

Tip of the day: Gnome Keyboard shortcuts and full screen everything.

2007-10-24 Thread John Carter
So I'm a short sighted old fart that likes to grok as large a chunk of code as possible. ie. I hate my screen cluttered with windows windows windows. I run my editor / console / firefox maximised and alt-tab between them. Who cares about virtual desktops? I'd use the "rat poison" window manage

Re: Gentoo on Dell lap top

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Drummond
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:16, Ross Drummond wrote: > I have acquired a Dell Inspiron 1510 lap top (amd 64 2 core 2GB ram 120GB > HDD) > > The Gentoo 2007.0 full install CD will not work. It does not load drivers > for the HDD. and other annoyances. > > Sabayon 3.3 will load a live CD without problems.

Re: konsole session profiles

2007-10-24 Thread Roger Searle
Ross Drummond wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:53, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I have a konsole session autostarting and use it regularly by renaming it, then starting a second session which I also rename. This is saved as a profile which I can start up with the konsole menu kicker button. I can't

Re: konsole session profiles

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Drummond
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:53, Roger Searle wrote: > Hi, I have a konsole session autostarting and use it regularly by > renaming it, then starting a second session which I also rename. This > is saved as a profile which I can start up with the konsole menu kicker > button. I can't figure out how to

konsole session profiles

2007-10-24 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, I have a konsole session autostarting and use it regularly by renaming it, then starting a second session which I also rename. This is saved as a profile which I can start up with the konsole menu kicker button. I can't figure out how to have this profile be the one that can be made to au

Re: Feisty to Gutsy upgrade : Notes to self...

2007-10-24 Thread John Carter
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, John Carter wrote: The fiesty to Gutsy ubuntu upgrade is a nightmare in the presence of * Poxy Firewalls * apt-cacher With one or none of those things and I think things would have gone well. Ok. It's not so hard The problem is update-manager attempts to guess t

Re: boot partition full

2007-10-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, October 25, 2007 9:17 am, Roger Searle wrote: > Problem seems solved. The machine wouldn't boot with "acpi=off" removed > from the grub entry - why that is will have to wait until (forever > probably). > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log was growing by several kb per minute. Editing > /etc/X11/xorg.c

Re: boot partition full

2007-10-24 Thread Roger Searle
Problem seems solved. The machine wouldn't boot with "acpi=off" removed from the grub entry - why that is will have to wait until (forever probably). /var/log/Xorg.0.log was growing by several kb per minute. Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf (vi of course - 100% via command line) and adding the fol

Memry leak - found it

2007-10-24 Thread Gabriella Turek
It a problem with the zmd daemon. gaby -- http://www.chimere.org/ http://walbatross.blogspot.com ** Throw the radio up high / Watch us d

Memory leak : what is parse-metadata?

2007-10-24 Thread Gabriella Turek
I found the source of my "memory leak". It's a process called "parse-metadata". Any ideas of what it is? Gaby (on Suse 10.1) -- http://www.chimere.org/ http://walbatross.blogspot.com

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon - Results on upgrade

2007-10-24 Thread Jonathan Bell
lyndon sutherland wrote: Hi, Took the plunge this morning and did an upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 using the 'update-manager'. It delivered one error during the upgrade but it doesn't appear to have caused any issue. Box rebooted fine after upgrade and everything appears to work. I wasn't so lu