[ubuntu-uk] Comunity meetups

2010-10-26 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Hello All, New to this mailing list, just wanted to ask a quick question for the moment. Anybody know of active ubuntu (or plain Linux) communities in the southwest london area? Richmond or Kingston? Would be nice to meet up with other users and have a share: I just casually met this guy in Claph

[ubuntu-uk] Unity and Gnome Shell

2010-10-26 Thread Les Cunningham
I have been looking at reviews of Gnome Shell, and I do not like what I have seen. (I have also tried running it, without success so far.) The screenshots show lots of white text on a black background, which I dislike as I find it difficult to read, although I suppose that there will be themes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Grant Sewell
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:28:35 +0100 Rob Beard wrote: > On 26/10/10 22:41, Glen Mehn wrote: > > Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? i.e,. > > is it stuck before grub or after? I kind of assume you aren't > > running X on the server (stock ubuntu server, right?) > > > > I kn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Rob Beard
On 26/10/10 22:41, Glen Mehn wrote: > Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? i.e,. is > it stuck before grub or after? I kind of assume you aren't running X on > the server (stock ubuntu server, right?) > > I know of a hosting company who uses mac minis (though I can't think

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 21:57 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote: > You could try disabling the DVI port in the Ubuntu config. I doubt very, very much that Ubuntu has anything to do with this. Start by checking that EFI, the Mac equivalent of BIOS, has a setting to "ignore boot errors", or "headless boot"

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Glen Mehn
Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? i.e,. is it stuck before grub or after? I kind of assume you aren't running X on the server (stock ubuntu server, right?) I know of a hosting company who uses mac minis (though I can't think of who they are at the moment... grumble..

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 26 October 2010 21:09, Rob Beard wrote: > On 26/10/10 20:50, Paul Willis wrote: > > Hi > > > > I set up Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server on a Mac Mini and shipped it off to our > other office (too far for me to go and troubleshoot) where they plugged in a > screen configured the network settings in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Rob Beard
On 26/10/10 20:50, Paul Willis wrote: > Hi > > I set up Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server on a Mac Mini and shipped it off to our > other office (too far for me to go and troubleshoot) where they plugged in a > screen configured the network settings in the cli and then unplugged the > screen. > > Everythi

[ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Willis
Hi I set up Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server on a Mac Mini and shipped it off to our other office (too far for me to go and troubleshoot) where they plugged in a screen configured the network settings in the cli and then unplugged the screen. Everything worked fine until at some point a few weeks later

Re: [ubuntu-uk] asus EeePC touchscreen

2010-10-26 Thread Jacob Mansfield
the latest one (10.10 NBR) straight off the website. it's an Asus EeeTop * ET2010PNT* Jacob Mansfield Programmer On 25 October 2010 17:02, Alan Pope wrote: > On 25 October 2010 16:58, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > > would anybody know how to get the touchscreen to work on an asus EeePC? > I've > >