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Chris Smith wrote:
| Alan Pope wrote:
| On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 16:38 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
| - The brightness adjusts itself for power saving I assume but its
| totally erratic and generally annoying.
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| Have you tweaked the settings in Gnome
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Chris Smith wrote:
| - The brightness adjusts itself for power saving I assume but its
| totally erratic and generally annoying.
Are your symptoms anything like those in this thread? I'm going to have
a look at my laptop when I get home...
Stephen O'Neill wrote:
Chris Smith wrote:
| - The brightness adjusts itself for power saving I assume but its
| totally erratic and generally annoying.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=581335
In power preferences, in AC options the slider is for Set display
brightness and it's on
Chris Smith wrote:
Just updating now will see what's what afterwards.
Well I found another issue. With the reduce backlight brightness
option ticked for battery power. If I remove the AC cord it dims, plug
it back in again it gets brighter. If I keep repeating the 2 states get
progressively less
Chris Smith wrote:
Well I found another issue. With the reduce backlight brightness
option ticked for battery power. If I remove the AC cord it dims, plug
it back in again it gets brighter. If I keep repeating the 2 states get
progressively less bright after doing this 4 times battery is set
If anyone's near Manchester, MDDA may be interested in your Ubuntu
projects, publicity, etc.
http://www.manchesterdda.com/
Dianne Reuby
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Museum of Computing @ Swindon
http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk
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On 17/04/2008, Dianne Reuby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If anyone's near Manchester, MDDA may be interested in your Ubuntu
projects, publicity, etc.
http://www.manchesterdda.com/
Thanks Dianne. The Manchester free software group currently use the
MDDA for their monthly meetings, but it hadn't
Hi Ben,
I tried reinstalling compiz as suggested, even with removing all
libraries and packages listed and reinstalling them, but to no avail.
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 00:19 +0100, Ben wrote:
Hi
i had the same problem and i resolved it by reinstalling compiz did urs
just start or was it
hi everyone
been having LOTS of issues with my newly built pc - runs smoothly most
of the time, but does really random things: freezes for no reason,
compiz dying for no visible reason etc, and it's taken to booting up
in just under 10 minutes if I'm lucky. 4-core processor, 2GB ram, 1GB
Are you sure this isn't a hardware issue? Could it be overheating/a
drive DOA? What components are you using, as there may be issues
relating to drivers that are causing the instability.
As to the Installing Ubuntu like Gentoo thing I have absolutely no
idea, but I suspect not.
Mj
Quoting
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Are you sure this isn't a hardware issue? Could it be overheating/a
drive DOA? What components are you using, as there may be issues
relating to drivers that are causing the instability.
As to the Installing Ubuntu like
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 14:18 +0100, andylockran wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you sure this isn't a hardware issue? Could it be overheating/a
drive DOA? What components are you using, as there may be issues
relating to drivers that
On 17/04/2008, Farran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one chip
was bad, so I can't even use it, but the other might be damaged a bit too
(don't know if that's posisble ).
If the ram is damaged if can cause lots of random problems.
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:18 +0100, Lucy wrote:
On 17/04/2008, Farran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one
chip was bad, so I can't even use it, but the other might be damaged a bit
too (don't know if that's posisble ).
If
On 17/04/2008, Farran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:18 +0100, Lucy wrote:
On 17/04/2008, Farran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one
chip was bad, so I can't even use it, but the other might be damaged a bit
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:45 +0100, Lucy wrote:
On 17/04/2008, Farran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:18 +0100, Lucy wrote:
On 17/04/2008, Farran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one
chip was bad, so I
On 17 Apr 2008, at 14:01, Farran wrote:
snip
Anyway, I was wondering if it's possible to install ubuntu from
source, like you would with gentoo (I think that's right), where
every package installs itself to work with your hardware
perfectly... or does that completely defy the idea of
...
it also reckons I have no updates, but it's been at least two months
since I last went on the net :/
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I sent this just now but it wouldn't go through because the file was too
large. Not been moderated yet:
I'm back, that was a lot quicker than I expected.
Okay, spec: 2GB OCZ SLI approved nVidia memory
1024mb SLI nVidia 8600GTS graphics card
Intel core 2 duo q6600 G0
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
On 17/04/2008, Farran Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I sent this just now but it wouldn't go through because the file was too
large. Not been moderated yet:
I'm back, that was a lot quicker than I expected.
Okay, spec: 2GB OCZ SLI approved nVidia memory
1024mb SLI nVidia 8600GTS
- Farran Lee wrote:
...
it also reckons I have no updates, but it's been at least two months since I
last went on the net :/
Open a terminal, and run sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y
That will check for updates, and upgrade them (without asking if you really
want to
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:27 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
Farran wrote:
I did actually run a memtest for almost a whole day, passing 8 times
with no errors
Therefore I would strongly suspect your CPU is overheating. When most
modern CPUs overheat, they automatically slow themselves down
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:21 +0100, Lucy wrote:
On 17/04/2008, Farran Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I sent this just now but it wouldn't go through because the file was too
large. Not been moderated yet:
I'm back, that was a lot quicker than I expected.
Okay, spec: 2GB OCZ SLI
- Farran Lee wrote:
sorry, didn't realise :/
here's the pastebin http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/7295/
From the looks of that (and I've not had too much practise looking at logs)
there's a lot of ata exceptions... which makes me think harddrive... might
be worth stress testing your
Andrew Oakley wrote:
Finally, if everything else is fine, then your motherboard is probably
b0rked, sorry (rare, but I have seen it happen twice in 20 years).
I'm pretty sure the last motherboard I had died. It would take many
attempts to boot up (it would spin up the CD drives over and
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Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a
couple of cases).
So how common
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:06 +0100, andylockran wrote:
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Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit
- Farran Lee wrote:
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware side
of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot at all?
I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a motherboard, its pretty much
useless. You can tell, by if they bulge
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:21 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
- Farran Lee wrote:
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the
hardware side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot
at all?
I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a
Farran Lee wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:06 +0100, andylockran wrote:
So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware
side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot at all?
The main problem
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:31 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:06 +0100, andylockran wrote:
So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware
side of computing. Is it
Quoting Johnathon Tinsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
- Farran Lee wrote:
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the
hardware side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not
boot at all?
I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a motherboard, its
Farran Lee wrote:
lots of people have had problems with the same motherboard.
I'd call that a fairly massive hint, and other than hard drive failure,
I'd say we're coming to the end of the list of possibilties.
Update the motherboard BIOS, and if it still won't play, swap it out for
a spare
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:44 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
lots of people have had problems with the same motherboard.
I'd call that a fairly massive hint, and other than hard drive failure,
I'd say we're coming to the end of the list of possibilties.
Update the
Farran Lee wrote:
I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the
system? Or would it just need certain fixes?
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the
system?
okay, successful update eventually... where's my two new compiz plugins?
Screensaver and aquarium? Also, i have never had the 3d windows plugin
either.
Just wondering, looking forward to playing with them :(
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Farran Lee wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
different one. If I did, would I have to completely
Farran Lee wrote:
okay, so I definitely won't have to change anything? Somebody mentioned
it somewhere... not here though.
I've changed totally CPU, Motherboard and chipset and still had Ubuntu
booting first time. Windows however...
Chris
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andylockran wrote:
Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a
couple of cases).
So how common is it? Have you had
Andrew Oakley wrote:
This bug needs reporting. Can you check whether it is one of these
existing bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/163678
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/164527
If so, please comment there, and if required change the status
Farran: been there, done that. =)
When I was 15 I single-handedly fried three motherboards because I
failed to notice the dark spot on the video card that had just toasted.
I swapped the video card out to test (didn't have a spare video card,
but had a few spare mobos with AGP slots in them
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 19:52 +0100, Tan, Xuan wrote:
Farran: been there, done that. =)
When I was 15 I single-handedly fried three motherboards because I
failed to notice the dark spot on the video card that had just toasted.
I swapped the video card out to test (didn't have a spare video
stupid, trivial question: where's my smileys gone? I have automatically
insert smileys ticked, but they don't show.
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I'm only 15 :P
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On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 19:58 +0100, Farran Lee wrote:
stupid, trivial question: where's my smileys gone? I have
automatically insert smileys ticked, but they don't how
You may not have 'compose in html' ticked, which would have this effect
(I checked).
In any case, I think quite a few people
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
andylockran wrote:
Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:29 +0100, Farran Lee wrote:
slightly off the motherboard branch: just checked my system info, and
it now says I have 1.9GB memory instead of 2! Definitely sending it
back now...
sysinfo doesn't report the correct size anyway, on my 768MB system it
reports 757MB
Steve
Is it not just that its stealing a bit for the Graphics?
I have had a mobo die on me, but it was my fault, I'd been using a 300W PSU
on a dual-core system (too lazy to go buy a new one)... didnt stop me
claiming a new one off the warrenty though ;]... though I did get round to
getting a 600w PSU
OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language there. I
started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about Computer Science,
and It's really interesting, Im learning about octal and hex, and other
Chris Smith wrote:
Well I found another issue. With the reduce backlight brightness
option ticked for battery power. If I remove the AC cord it dims, plug
it back in again it gets brighter. If I keep repeating the 2 states get
progressively less bright after doing this 4 times battery is set
James Grabham wrote:
OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language
there. I started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about
Computer Science, and It's really interesting, Im learning
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Andrew Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Grabham wrote:
OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language
there. I started reading, and the first 3 chapters
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
andylockran wrote:
Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of
gdgd, - I finally feel like a reel geek now XD
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Matthew Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Andrew Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
James Grabham wrote:
OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few
Agree with Matthew.
I've been coding for years now (most often in that piece of called
VBScript for ASP pages), but only just started a proper course, which goes all
the way from machine code to PIC to ARM to Pascal.
It's given me much more insight as to what I've been doing all this
Andrew Oakley wrote:
Please can you check it, comment if it matches your experience (in
particular, state that it happens on your Thinkpad, not just my Dell)
and mark the bug as Confirmed. Thanks,
Done.
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You still have your 2GB of RAM.Just gfx is stealing some of it, and probably
putting it to better use.;)
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James Grabham wrote:
OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language there. I
started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about Computer Science,
and It's really interesting, Im learning about
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