Re: HP Pavilion DV7 - Synaptics Touchpad

2010-11-24 Thread Callan Davies
I'm hoping that someone can assist with an issue that's developed on my HP Pavilion DV7 notebook since installing 10.10. Since upgrading, my synaptics touchpad has sort of stopped working. I say sort of because it works fine on the login screen, it just stops responding entirely once I

Re: Simply Backup help

2009-03-30 Thread Callan Davies
Simply Backup all goes well to the point of pressing the backup now button and the A backup run is initiated. The process id is message is displayed. After that, there is no sign of activity - that I can see. I presume that it is working in the background. Though it doesn't present a

Re: Simply Backup help

2009-03-30 Thread Callan Davies
I have loaded the system monitor as you have suggested and now have the the little window on my panel. Couldn't find Load and Disk but I'll work that out. You comments are pertinent and encouraging. Thanks again. Hi Dave, Right-Click on the system monitor panel applet and choose

Re: ext3 partition on a windows drive common to 32bit and 64bit?

2009-01-15 Thread Callan Davies
May I ask the advantage of putting it in /mnt or /media over leaving it in / (in root it doesn't show an icon)? Is it 'better' in the sense of 'nix convention or is there another advantage? I tend toward /home being better but only if I can overcome the icon. Hi Dave, I guess from a