what changed on the live CD?

2007-04-16 Thread Lubos Pintes
Hello, I downloaded the live CD today. I tried to boot it, but either it hangs up, or something changed in the boot process that I am not aware of. I started as usual 1. boot. 2. f5, 3, enter. 3. f6, hpet=disable (needed on my laptop), enter. The boot process started, but cdrom stopped

Re: can this be done in dapper

2007-04-16 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Good evening, On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, mike coulombe wrote: Hi, is there a way to get dapper to see windows partitions. Thanks Mike. Create a directory and mount the partition there. If your Windows partition is on /dev/hda2 and you have created a directory called /windows, you would type

Offline until further notice.

2007-04-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
Greetings all Apologies in advance for the cross post, but its easier to send a message to all lists that I tend to be active on. As of a few minutes from now, I will be offline until further notice, due to a house move. I'll do my best to get back online as soon as I possibly can. -- Luke

ORCA Through A USB Device?

2007-04-16 Thread Mia Lipner
Hello, I tried running the Ubuntu Live CD -- it was the one handed out at CSUN, so I think it was 6.1). Because of some issues with my laptop, I run all sound through a USB Imic2. We could get Ubuntu itself to recognize the device, and send sound there, but we couldn't find a way to get speech

need info on menus

2007-04-16 Thread mike coulombe
Hi, I have always noticed in ubuntu when I am in a directory and press the first letter of what I am looking for it doesn't go to that idem. I assume this is because you can't do this in gnome like you can in windows. If this is the case I think adding this feature would be helpful. X-Antivirus:

Re: need info on menus

2007-04-16 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Hi Mike, your subject line mentions menus but your text mentions a directory. Which did you mean to talk about? The Linux terminal does have autocompletion functionality (using the tab key) and GNOME menus do jump to the option with a first letter matching a keypress. For example, if I go to

can't log in has anyone had this problem

2007-04-16 Thread mike coulombe
Hi, I just got a update and when I rebooted I couldn't login. However pressing ctrl alt f1 and logging in did work to get me to a terminal. I assume something is broken in gnome, because I keep getting the login sound when trying to log in. I did use avimux before rebooting, but I don't think that