Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug report filed re screenshot problem

On 16/11/14 16:42, Colin Law wrote: On 16 November 2014 16:11, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 16/11/14 15:43, Colin Law wrote: On 16 November 2014 14:35, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 16/11/14 14:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 16/11/14 14:27, Colin Law wrote: On 16 November 2014 14:21, Rowan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug report filed re screenshot problem

On 16/11/14 15:43, Colin Law wrote: On 16 November 2014 14:35, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 16/11/14 14:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 16/11/14 14:27, Colin Law wrote: On 16 November 2014 14:21, Rowan Berkeley wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1393188

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug report filed re screenshot problem

On 16/11/14 14:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 16/11/14 14:27, Colin Law wrote: On 16 November 2014 14:21, Rowan Berkeley wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1393188 Is fglrx installed? To find out: apt-cache policy fglrx Colin Yes, it is. But if you are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug report filed re screenshot problem

On 16/11/14 14:27, Colin Law wrote: On 16 November 2014 14:21, Rowan Berkeley wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1393188 Is fglrx installed? To find out: apt-cache policy fglrx Colin Yes, it is. But if you are thinking of the bug we looked at yesterday

[ubuntu-uk] Bug report filed re screenshot problem

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1393188 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

On 15/11/14 17:19, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 15 November 2014 14:44, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 15/11/14 14:25, Bill B. wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 12:50 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application Rowan, pard

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

On 15/11/14 14:25, Bill B. wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 12:50 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application Rowan, pardon my naivety, but have you tried Shutter as the screenshot app - it has gone it's gone throu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

On 15/11/14 13:59, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 13:42, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 15/11/14 13:38, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

On 15/11/14 13:38, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because I use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because I use screenshots a lot on my blog. Every time I try to make a new screenshot, it just creates a new

[ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

deleted everything on there, including hidden files. These things must be stored somewhere else. So where are they all, so that I can clear them, and perhaps find some way of preventing them from accumulating like this again? Best to all, Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

On 16/05/13 08:45, Colin Law wrote: -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I was looking at Dash Home, not at the Software Centre. The search box I was talking about was the one on Dash Home. Synaptic used to be availab

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

On 15/05/13 20:56, Liam Proven wrote: On 15 May 2013 20:36, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Yes, well, it's possible I'm under some sort of spell. But I tried switching off the privacy control, in case by some peculiar chain of logic that was relevant, but it still wasn't there. There&

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

On 15/05/13 20:29, Liam Proven wrote: On 15 May 2013 20:17, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Not in mine. I suppose we could compare screenshots. I could take a screenshot of mine and put somewhere for you to see. I have vanilla 13.04 on three machines, and I can testify that what you describe is not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

On 15/05/13 19:58, Liam Proven wrote: On 15 May 2013 19:17, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Liam, that's the 11.10 version of the Software Center. It doesn't look like that any more. :-) It's close enough. Before I posted, I tried it, and the "technical items" link is still

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

On 15/05/13 19:04, Liam Proven wrote: On 15 May 2013 18:59, surfer wrote: I have opened it using both the methods you suggested and yes I am prompted for a password. However, the Apply button is still greyed out. You realise that it remains greyed out until you've selected some actions - insta

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

On 15/05/13 19:06, surfer wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 18:45 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 15/05/13 17:33, surfer wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:20 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 15/05/13 17:09, Colin Law wrote: On 15 May 2013 16:51, surfer wrote: I have just updated my system to 12.10

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

On 15/05/13 17:33, surfer wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:20 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 15/05/13 17:09, Colin Law wrote: On 15 May 2013 16:51, surfer wrote: I have just updated my system to 12.10. I have been looking for both recent versions of Java and Postgresql, but cannot find a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

On 15/05/13 17:09, Colin Law wrote: On 15 May 2013 16:51, surfer wrote: I have just updated my system to 12.10. I have been looking for both recent versions of Java and Postgresql, but cannot find a key or lock that I can use to download them. Before I used Synaptec, which seems no longer to e

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox

much - It's using 100% of one of my two CPU's. > > I'll have a look at what is needed for 2.99 and let you know. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > On 10 May 2013 15:08, Rowan Berkeley <mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> H'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox

; about" Regards, Phill On 10 May 2013 14:42, Rowan Berkeley <mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com>> wrote: According to that ftp page, 2.99 was the last version they made before they stopped, evidently imagining it was as perfect as it could ever be. I assume that'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox

g well in the past with a large library. Regards, Phill. P.S. this is a clean 13.04 lubuntu install, so I need to 'add' things to it :) On 10 May 2013 14:07, Rowan Berkeley <mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 10/05/13 13:55, Alan Pope wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox

On 10/05/13 13:55, Alan Pope wrote: On 10/05/13 13:33, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I find that in 13.04 (though not as far as I can recall, previously), it is impossible to leave Rhythmbox running after use, ie for instance having played an album to leave it running and an hour later to try to play

[ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox

tightening it up in any way would be welcome. Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Interesting 13.04 bug(s)

I've had this/these, today. First you find there's no sound, then if you go to restart, you find the shutdown sequence hangs, and you have to use the power button to switch the machine off. Only advice offered at this point is to revert to the previous kernel. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No new mail notifications from Thunderbird in 13.04

derbird and the Unity Desktop people. On 03/05/13 15:19, James Tait wrote: On 03/05/13 14:00, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I'm not seeing the two useful notifications that I usually had in 12.10 and 12.04. I'm not talking about the optional balloon notification, I'm talking about: If you

[ubuntu-uk] No new mail notifications from Thunderbird in 13.04

Hi, I'm not seeing the two useful notifications that I usually had in 12.10 and 12.04. I'm not talking about the optional balloon notification, I'm talking about: (a) the horizontal bar that should appear across the Thunderbird launcher icon, with the number of new emails in it, similar to the

[ubuntu-uk] More interesting things about wireless drivers

I've just been upgrading my oldest machine, a Lenovo N500, and here is another interesting feature of the wireless driver landscape. Whereas the Compaq machine seemed to find the wireless driver already on board, and installed it automatically, the Lenovo machine lost the necessary driver it al

[ubuntu-uk] Wireless in 13.04

Hi, I posted a message to the effect that the procedure for reinstalling the Ralink RT3290 wireless driver, which worked on 12.10, doesn't work after online upgrade to 13.04. Since posting that, I found an online report at askubuntu.com which gave the exact same error messages as mine: http:/

[ubuntu-uk] Reinstall wireless driver doesn't work in 13.04

This is what happens when I try to 'make' the wireless driver. root@rowan-Compaq:/home/rowan/DPO_RT3290_LinuxSTA_V2600_20120508# make make -C tools make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rowan/DPO_RT3290_LinuxSTA_V2600_20120508/tools' gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h make[1]: Leaving di

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

Kris On 23 April 2013 09:59, Rowan Berkeley mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > You recall we talked about the hassle of having to re-install wireless > drivers after every kernel update. I've noticed that neither of the Lenovo

[ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

this make sense, and if so, could the relevant material be incorporated directly into Ubuntu? Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advent Touch Print printer ....

On 12/04/13 19:31, Jim Price wrote: On 12/04/13 13:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote: It's interesting that you mention a shell script there, because I have become very fond of my Compaq laptop, even though every time it gets a kernel update I have to reinstall the wireless driver, and I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advent Touch Print printer ....

On 12/04/13 13:27, Barry Drake wrote: On 11/04/13 16:52, Jones, Victor wrote: I'm really pleased with everything except the lack of help with Linux. PC World completely stonewall questions about Linux, and the Kodak website is less than helpful. After a lot of research on the internet, I have g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video for dual-boot with UEFI Secure Boot

On 26/02/13 10:39, James Tait wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Following on from the recent discussions about UEFI Secure Boot, this dropped into my Inbox over the weekend. It's a series of three videos that may or may not help to explain what goes on during install

[ubuntu-uk] They've fixed the black square in Firefox

It's gone, as of today's Firefox update. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

On 19/02/13 17:40, Gareth France wrote: On 19/02/13 17:14, Rowan Berkeley wrote: My friend in Denmark has now got her Ubuntu. The main thing was, she had to re-make the stick; she had made it wrongly in some respect, the first time. It is not clear yet whether she managed the successful

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

My friend in Denmark has now got her Ubuntu. The main thing was, she had to re-make the stick; she had made it wrongly in some respect, the first time. It is not clear yet whether she managed the successful installation without having disabled all the security features in the BIOS or not. If sh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

On 18/02/13 22:39, Alan Bell wrote: On 15/02/13 17:43, Alan Pope wrote: On 15/02/13 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote: He says: "Windows 8 hardware uses the UEFI replacement for the traditional BIOS, like Macs do. Some solid-state drive-equipped Windows 8 PCs boot so fast that you’d only have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

My friend in Denmark has finally got into the BIOS on her Fujitsu machine (the one on she installed Ubuntu to replace Windows 8 without making the necessary alterations in the BIOS settings first), by hitting F2 when she sees the Fujitsu logo. She has sent me a series of photos of the screens.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

On 15/02/13 17:40, Alan Pope wrote: On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and that the Wi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

On 15/02/13 17:34, Gareth France wrote: On 15/02/13 17:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Thanks for all that, Alan. So, concretely, let's take for instance the Compaq machine which I successfully converted from Windows 8 to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. Given that F2 no longer works, and tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

On 15/02/13 16:44, Alan Pope wrote: On 15/02/13 13:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote: "Windows 7 won't solve the problem, because it won't give you access to UEFI. What does that mean? UEFI is something which Windows 7, Windows 8, 64-bit Ubuntu, Fedora and probably other Linux distro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

I managed to get back in touch with my luckless friend in Denmark. She said she was thinking of installing Windows 7 on the machine, which she thought would give her access to BIOS. I replied as below. Comments and corrections will be welcome, since after all I know very little. "Windows 7 won

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

On 14/02/13 19:29, Dave Morley wrote: On 14/02/13 19:24, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 14/02/13 18:28, Dave Morley wrote: On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote: An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and tried to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

On 14/02/13 18:28, Dave Morley wrote: On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote: An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and tried to install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my detailed explanations and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

On 14/02/13 17:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and tried to install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my detailed explanations and warnings about this. She now has no

[ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

Hi, An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and tried to install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my detailed explanations and warnings about this. She now has no Windows 8 and no Ubuntu, just a GRUB scre

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

On 07/02/13 09:52, Gareth France wrote: On 06/02/13 23:41, Philip Stubbs wrote: On 6 February 2013 23:05, Gareth France mailto:gareth.fra...@gmail.com>> wrote: To the best of my knowledge I wasn't using Adobe Air at the time. And as for Flash, of course I don't choose how others design

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

rtition affairs, probably intended for developers rather than mere nerds like me. When you run a major upgrade on them, you have the option of losing all that and getting some more free space. Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

r your patient help, Mark, and apologies to everyone else who has had to put up with all this. Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

Hi Mark, Here we are. I can see what I did wrong: I screwed up r8169, which is the Ethernet driver, thinking it was maybe a rival wireless driver. Definitely my bad. uname -a linuc rowan-Compaq 3.5.0-23-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP [date & time] sudo lshw -C network *-network descrip

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 05/02/13 12:49, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I've given the machine a complete 12.10 reinstall from the USB stick, so as to start again without the ill effects of whatever I did previously, fixing which could have gone on forever. In a minute I shall be able to see what I've got and wha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 05/02/13 11:55, Rowan Berkeley wrote: No, the machine is running 12.10, but I downgraded the kernel to 3.5.0-22 because I broke 3.5.0-23's Ethernet interface somehow with my tinkering. So, before proceeding with your suggestion, I decided to reinstall 3.5.0-23 and see if it worked. And

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 05/02/13 11:32, Mark Einon wrote: It appears that the chip you have is quite new, and is only supported for newer kernels - for some reason I had it in my head that the laptop was quite old. As you have a 2.5.0 kernel, I assume you're on 12.04 - so I think this may help, short of compiling a n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 05/02/13 09:48, Mark Einon wrote: On 5 February 2013 08:58, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, Mark. Thanks for the thoughts. ~/pcilist.text: No such file or directory Ah, ok. Not sure what when on there - perhaps you could just try 'lspci --nn' and copy the printout the way you know w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

pcilist.txt and copy the pcilist.txt to the email? rowan@rowan-Compaq-CQ58-Notebook-PC:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by rt3562sta 995054 0 Hmm, this looks to be part of the Ralink vendor driver, which shouldn't be here if we're trying to use the native kerne

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

ight at the end. I think it's a rival wireless driver that won't run under Ubuntu but will conflict, and hence needs blacklisting. rowan@rowan-Compaq-CQ58-Notebook-PC:~$ dpkg -S /lib/firmware/rt2860.bin linux-firmware: /lib/firmware/rt2860.bin rowan@rowan-Compaq-CQ58-Notebook-PC:~$ dpkg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 04/02/13 15:59, Colin Law wrote: On 4 February 2013 15:48, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Now it has Ubuntu installed, it simply won't boot from the USB stick, no matter how much I juggle the boot order around. Don't ask me why, it just won't. What you have installed on the disk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 04/02/13 15:22, Colin Law wrote: I suggested (I think) some time back in a different thread that you try booting from the live CD/USB and confirm that the wireless is not found in that case, but I don't think you replied. See what sudo lshw -C network says about the wireless network when liv

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 04/02/13 14:31, Mark Einon wrote: I'm really surprised that this driver is not supported in your kernel - what version do you have? (run '$> uname -a' on the command line to find out). I think it's been in since 3.0, and available with compat-wireless from 2.6.30. The rt2860.bin file is also

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 04/02/13 13:41, Alan Pope wrote: > On 04/02/13 13:21, Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> I already in effect tried that; when I ran the command 'unzip' on it, >> the machine renamed it "sp58586.exe.ZIP" and looked at it and said >> "gar nicht," or wor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 04/02/13 13:14, Kris Douglas wrote: What he meant was that there may be zip data inside. Rename the file yo something.zip and see if it opens in your Archive viewer. Ahem. OK. But anyway, to return to my original point and Alan's response to it, there's nothing to unzip. I already in ef

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 04/02/13 12:07, Colin Law wrote: On 4 February 2013 12:01, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 04/02/13 11:46, Colin Law wrote: On 4 February 2013 11:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Unfortunately, it seems that you can have a package sitting in plain view on the desktop but the terminal will keep telling

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 04/02/13 11:46, Colin Law wrote: On 4 February 2013 11:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Unfortunately, it seems that you can have a package sitting in plain view on the desktop but the terminal will keep telling you "no such file or package." This rather stops me in my tracks. Show us t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

On 04/02/13 08:38, Alan Pope wrote: On 04/02/13 04:03, Rowan Berkeley wrote: In my unending search for ways to implement the wireless driver on my converted Compaq machine, I have found the recommended driver on HP's website, and it comes in an MS-DOS .exe package which ndiswrapper canno

[ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

In my unending search for ways to implement the wireless driver on my converted Compaq machine, I have found the recommended driver on HP's website, and it comes in an MS-DOS .exe package which ndiswrapper cannot use because the latter needs to access certain component files in the package. -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

On 03/02/13 10:16, Byte Soup wrote: Hi all, just wanted to get the Ubuntu UK list take on this story from the BBC below http://bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21304049 Yes the guy was using windows, but will our browsers also give up this sort of in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Paula Graham wrote: > OK. Verbatim instructions plus chatty asides below cos it's Friday and I'm > about to > quit for the week wh! (etc) > Paula > > I can see and digest all this. But without actually doing it again right now, I'd like to ask for one more

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

eee! (gallop, gallop, gallop) Paula Just saw this, 2 am being a typical start time for me. Thank you kindly. You have inspired me to plod through the whole thing once again. By the way, Mr Shotts highly acclaimed book on the Linux Command Line is here: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Paula Graham wrote: > I dunno, doesn't seem a huge burden to me - the driver's in a handy > folder - it takes all of 20 secs to compile - prefer it to opening a > brand new laptop with a perfectly good Realtek chip (and I'm clumsy with > hardware). Will just tolera

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

On 01/02/13 15:54, Paula Graham wrote: I dunno, doesn't seem a huge burden to me - the driver's in a handy folder - it takes all of 20 secs to compile - prefer it to opening a brand new laptop with a perfectly good Realtek chip (and I'm clumsy with hardware). Will just tolerate mild inconvenien

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Paula Graham wrote: > >>> On 18 Jan 2013 07:59, "Mark Fraser" wrote: > Found this zoostorm laptop on ebuyer's website > >>> http://www.ebuyer.com/411061- > >>> > >>> > I've got the i3 version of the Zoostorm laptop - 12.04 installed > perfectly except wifi c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 02:35 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > I dunno, I just give up on this. I ran through the whole install > > sequence again, and I didn't see any warnings or errors at all. I don't > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

I dunno, I just give up on this. I ran through the whole install sequence again, and I didn't see any warnings or errors at all. I don't know how you select all to cut and paste from the terminal, but there wasn't anything to see except textbook commands and responses. Unfortunately, after this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

On 29/01/13 12:04, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 09:43 AM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I assume that when you are told to insert or change things in multiple files in the operating system, it's no good just opening them with gedit and changing them on the spot; you ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

On 29/01/13 10:43, Alan Pope wrote: On 29/01/13 04:43, Rowan Berkeley wrote: -- So what they're saying is, they won't fix it until the next major rebuild of Firefox, whenever that is? 2013-02-18 is the scheduled release date for Firefox 19 which I discovered by typing "s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

On 29/01/13 09:43, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 29/01/13 09:18, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 08:31 AM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: So, if you please, what should I do next? With the wireless card being listed as unclaimed there will be no loaded driver for it. I think the reasons

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

On 29/01/13 09:18, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 08:31 AM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: So, if you please, what should I do next? With the wireless card being listed as unclaimed there will be no loaded driver for it. I think the reasons split along two lines: the driver you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

On 28/01/13 20:31, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013, at 08:05 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: If I might return to this issue I have with activating wireless on the Compaq, I believe I have located the correct network driver and installed it, but I'm still seeing no wireless o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

"These changes are probably too significant to consider for Aurora, when weighed against the significance of the glitch. status-firefox18: --- → wontfix Status: NEW → RESOLVED Resolution: --- → FIXED Target Milestone: --- → mozilla19" -- So what they're saying is, they won't fix it until the next

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

I've posted this as a bug on Bugzilla, here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835331 Oddly enough, that excellent little video of the phenomenon which was at Ubuntu One has now disappeared. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

If I might return to this issue I have with activating wireless on the Compaq, I believe I have located the correct network driver and installed it, but I'm still seeing no wireless option beneath the fan symbol in the notifications bar. What I need to do is investigate from the terminal, check tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

On 28/01/13 11:58, Alan Pope wrote: On 28/01/13 11:18, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Yup, that's it exactly. Well found. And you get it on 12.04, so it isn't just a 12.10 issue. Ok, so that looks like a compiz bug, you can file it with:- ubuntu-bug compiz Cheers, OK, d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

On 28/01/13 11:10, Tony Pursell wrote: On 28 January 2013 10:00, Andy Braben <mailto:andybra...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 28 January 2013 09:42, Tony Pursell mailto:a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>> wrote: On 28 January 2013 08:39, Rowan Berkeley mai

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

On 28/01/13 09:53, Colin Law wrote: On 28 January 2013 09:45, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 28/01/13 07:45, Simon Greenwood wrote: I'm not sure how you get to questioning whether the solution works without testing it and more to the point not knowing which network your machine has. You can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

On 28/01/13 07:45, Simon Greenwood wrote: I'm not sure how you get to questioning whether the solution works without testing it and more to the point not knowing which network your machine has. You can find that out by pasting the following code in a terminal: lspci | egrep -i --color 'networ

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

On 28/01/13 09:16, Alan Pope wrote: On 28/01/13 08:39, Rowan Berkeley wrote: No, Alan, it's a transient event lasting a half-second or so. It happens very time I start Firefox on any of these three machines. It doesn't cause any problems, but it's a bug nonetheless. A video

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

On 28/01/13 08:30, Alan Pope wrote: On 28/01/13 07:19, Rowan Berkeley wrote: This deserves a thread of its own, I think. 'Slow to load' means approximately a half-second late. During that half-second, the previous display remains visible in the square. It's approx 250x250 pi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

On 28/01/13 07:45, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 28 January 2013 03:16, Rowan Berkeley <mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 27/01/13 19:26, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, As you may recall, I bought a Co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

On 28/01/13 07:19, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, This deserves a thread of its own, I think. 'Slow to load' means approximately a half-second late. During that half-second, the previous display remains visible in the square. It's approx 250x250 pixels in size, I should say, ie abo

[ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

Hi, This deserves a thread of its own, I think. 'Slow to load' means approximately a half-second late. During that half-second, the previous display remains visible in the square. It's approx 250x250 pixels in size, I should say, ie about the width of a tab in the browser tab bar. I've got th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

On 27/01/13 19:26, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow the instructions given here in rather scattered form: http

[ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

Hi, As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow the instructions given here in rather scattered form: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2103062 I installed linux-headers-generic build-essential

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Command line instructions to force Rhythmbox to set Library

On 12/01/13 11:39, Colin Law wrote: On 12 January 2013 10:49, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 12/01/13 10:41, Colin Law wrote: On 12 January 2013 10:22, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi - Here's a question I'm sure will be fairly simple for all you command line geeks out there: when I started

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Command line instructions to force Rhythmbox to set Library

On 12/01/13 10:41, Colin Law wrote: On 12 January 2013 10:22, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi - Here's a question I'm sure will be fairly simple for all you command line geeks out there: when I started this 12.10 set-up, I loaded the Rhythmbox Library from an external hard disk, where

[ubuntu-uk] Command line instructions to force Rhythmbox to set Library

Hi - Here's a question I'm sure will be fairly simple for all you command line geeks out there: when I started this 12.10 set-up, I loaded the Rhythmbox Library from an external hard disk, where I keep the backups of all my music. Subsequently I copied all the music into the /home/music folde

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.10 Teething Troubles

On 08/01/13 10:06, Colin Law wrote: On 8 January 2013 09:54, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 08/01/13 09:45, Colin Law wrote: On 8 January 2013 08:10, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi - Now I have 12.10 running on this was-Windows machine, via the USB stick booting method, I have one or two teething

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.10 Teething Troubles

On 08/01/13 09:45, Colin Law wrote: On 8 January 2013 08:10, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi - Now I have 12.10 running on this was-Windows machine, via the USB stick booting method, I have one or two teething troubles with it. Generally one or two restarts will sort them out, but not all of them

[ubuntu-uk] 12.10 Teething Troubles

Hi - Now I have 12.10 running on this was-Windows machine, via the USB stick booting method, I have one or two teething troubles with it. Generally one or two restarts will sort them out, but not all of them. The main thing I'm vexed by is that I can't prevent it from switching off the screen a

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