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Does the Trust XpertTouch Wireless Mouse work in Ubuntu?
I'm planing to buy a trust xperttouch wireless mouse that is a multi-touch mouse () and I want to know if the mouse shall work in Ubuntu 11.10.
Is there someone who has experience with this mouse. I ...
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Ask temperature on ubuntu 11.10 too hot
I wonder why when I am using Ubuntu, my laptop temperature increases. It's around 62 degrees or less. I am already using Jupiter and have set it to power saving mode but if I use maximum performance ...
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Hardware Failure with KDE
I've got a problem, and I need help; I've got a laptop running Kubuntu 11.10. Bug appeared after hibernation problems (machine can't hibernate properly and was accidently set to hibernate)
Firstly, ...
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How do i switch video display output command line?
How do i switch my video card output on Ubuntu Server 11.10? It has a video card with one DVI and one VGA. It's defaulting to the VGA. I want it to default to the DVI.
I only have ssh connection via ...
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How to find out if my system is i386 or x86_64 before installing Ubuntu?
I am using Windows as of now and want to install Ubuntu. I want to find out if my system is i386 or x86_64? How to do that? Thanks.
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My USB test drive hangs on boot. How can I get it to boot with the right options?
I try to install 64bit Ubuntu 11.10 on a Toshiba Satelite notebook with AMD E350 processor. The installation USB successfully tested on an Acer Aspire desktop although I only ran a try out. On the ...
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System is slow when using Banshee or opening folders
I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a fresh formatted hard drive (i.e. there is no other OS on my PC). İnstallation went smooth from start to finish, but the system appears to be quite slow.
With slow I mean ...
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Can't start ubuntu 11.10, Stops at login screen!
I have been trying to dual boot ubuntu with windows 7 via WUBI on my custom built pc
but without success. When i start the computer i can choose windows or ubuntu i choose ubuntu and when i should get ...
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How do I get my HP LaserJet 5P working?
Ubuntu won't detect my HP LaserJet 5P. I'm on 10.04. Tried for hours to get printer to work.
Is there somewhere a software that says detect hardware? Do I need a software add-on to get it recognized?
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Mythbuntu can't find my tuner after update
I just installed mythbuntu 11.10 on a spare computer with a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1600 tuner card. Mythtv had no problem detecting and using the card initially, but after a round of mythbuntu/ubuntu ...
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Deciphering hardware damage from sensor info
Recently my system has been suffering from what appear to be numerous hardware defects. Most critically, my system has apparently been overheating (under medium load) and summarily shutting down. ...
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Dell Inspiron N5110 Bluetooth adapter not recognized
I have Dell Inspiron N5110 core i3,and I am using Bluetooth in Windows but in Ubuntu my Bluetooth is not working correctly and system testing tell me that the Bluetooth is not detected.
Please let me ...
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CD/ DVD/ Blu-Ray Device Undectable
I can't get my fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 to recognize that I've got a drive for CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays...
Here's the output of a couple of commonly-requested terminal commands in other forum ...
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What can I move to RAM drive to have the system working faster?
Which files/directories can I move to RAM drive to have the system working faster?
I'm planning to upgrade my laptop's memory to 8GB soon, so I'll have some fast memory to use. How to configure the ...
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No tilde and no caret on german keyboard
In the course of a 11.10 install I lost network connect. So I skipped retrieving update packages and completed install, doing upgrade in the newly installed system. Everything is working fine, but the ...
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How to check needed power supply for my PC? [closed]
I want to buy UPS, but don't know parameters. How i can check my hardware for it?
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how do I change the device uri for a scanner?
Ubuntu 11.1 (32 bit)
Brother MFC-7220
I have an old Brother all-in-one printer/scanner/fax. I have installed the printer side and it is working fine. I have installed the brscan2 for the scanner side ...
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Lubuntu hardware manager
So, I installed Lubuntu minimal and built the system from there on the 11.10 packages.
I'm wondering what package it is that includes the hardware manager I remember from Ubuntu 10.04?
Thanks!
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5.1 Surround System Subwoofer not working
My subwo0fer is not working on Ubuntu 11.10.
Satellites are all working.
It is part of a 5.1 Soundsystem.
I've already googled and changed in the /etc/pulse/daemon.conf file these Variables and ...
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How to avoid mouse pointer disappears or changes to a big yellow square when changing user?
I have a very annoying problem in ubuntu which lasts since many previous versions of ubuntu/kubuntu. When changing the user, most of the time the mouse pointer changes to a big yellow square or ...
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How to completely shutdown Ati card
I would like to know how do i prevent my Ati card from turning on when i enter on ubuntu 11.10. My bios only lets-me shutdown intel hd card or leave the both on but i want to know if is possbible to ...
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When I turn my desktop on my secondary monitor maintains screen resolution but the picture shifts to the left
When I turn my desktop on my secondary monitor (a vizio hdtv) maintains screen resolution but the picture shifts to the left leaving about 2-5 inches of black space at the edge. Changing my resolution ...
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6G RAM plugged in, 3G available on Ubuntu?
I was using a laptop with 2G RAM. The laptop has Ubuntu v10.04 running.
Today, I asked our IT-support guy to upgrade my laptop to have total 6G RAM, he did it but told me "Though you have 6G RAM in ...
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Can Ubuntu (or server) run a 64 core (4X16) server (one motherboard)?
We've been doing graphics rendering using Maxwell Render on a Ubuntu box with a 6 core AMD Phenom II Processor. Ubuntu handles all 6 cores brilliantly, but a 4 core laptop is almost as fast. We'd like ...
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Which hardware upgrade will give me the greatest performance boost with Ubuntu 11.10(with list of currently installed hardware)?
I have the following components in my computer:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArazBkOGrxEbdDhjc1lJWklJMEV5RlVrdzVYcHdMYWc
The system currently works okay with Ubuntu 11.10 and unity. ...
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What video cards for a Desktop computer compatible with Ubuntu can support Dual Monitors?
Our start up needs to use two monitors but our default enviroment needs two monitors, can somebody recommend me a cheap Video Card that could help us to use two monitors?
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Wireless stopped working on a Gateway LT2805u
Short and sweet. Gateway LT2805u Netbook Running Ubuntu 10.04. Wireless suddenly stopped working. RFKill shows no output. And the wireless card shows "Unclaimed".
Card is an Atheros (ar9285 i ...
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wacom bamboo fun stylus up side down
I've got BambooFun 4x5
eraser works like stylus and stylus does nothing
system
Oneiric 3.0.0-14-generic
xserveur-xorg-input-wacom 1:0.11.0
wacom-dkms 0.12.1
~$ lsusb | grep -i wacom
Bus 003 ...
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Is installing Ubuntu on Mac as simple as installing on a generic PC?
I am planning to buy a new laptop and as I'm an Ubuntu Fanatic. I'd like to know whether the procedure of installing Ubuntu on a Mac is as simple and straight-forward as it is on a PC. If it is then ...
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How does the kernel detect hardware and load device drivers during boot up?
Recently I am playing with Android x86 (http://www.android-x86.org/). From what I know, the Android kernel is very similar to Ubuntu Linux kernel. However, according to this discussion, Android is ...
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Disk read error after cloning
After cloning a Windows hard disk using dd, Windows failed to startup, giving 'disk read error'. Although I know that there are faulty sectors on the old disk, the startup completes, albeit slowly. ...
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HP-G64-455SX not detecting the webcam
I have a HP-G64-455SX laptop.
Windows was corrupted so I decided to install Ubuntu 11.10 on it. All things were working properly but my webcam is not working.
Last time I used my webcam was 3 weeks ...
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Why doesn't my mp3/mp4 player work on Ubuntu? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get a Dane-Elec mp3/mp4 player working?
My MP3/MP4 does not plug-in and play and therefore I can not transfer any file to the MP3/MP4 dane-elec music my touch ...
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How do I get a Dane-Elec mp3/mp4 player working?
My MP3/MP4 does not plug-in and play and therefore I can not transfer any file to the MP3/MP4 dane-elec music my touch or only dane-elec with 8 gb in memory and perhapses model zt1 with radio,..and ...
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Disable detection of certain hardware?
I have a computer with two PCI TV cards. One is Compro (Win friendly), another is Leadtek (Linux friendly). Now, i'm trying to optimize my Ubuntu boot process and i would like to disable detection of ...
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Installing drivers for a windows 7 guest in virtualbox
I am new to ubuntu. I want to know how to install drivers such as lan, wifi, audio, video & graphics, webcam and so in Windows 7 32bit installed as a guest OS inside Ubuntu 10.10 (host) using ...
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How do I make my Windows Media Center remote control work?
How do I make my Windows Media Center remote control work?
Here's the lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express DRAM Controller
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation ...
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Why doesn't Adobe Flash Player 11.x have hardware acceleration?
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with a Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT and a Nvidia Geforce 525M GT (drivers; nvidia-current-updates via Ubuntu).
While Adobes Flash Player 11.x was working with full Hardware ...
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Blank screen after ATI video card installation on Ubuntu 11.10 amd64
I am new to Linux, and don't have much knowledge on the OS and its technical terms. I brought a new ATI/AMD Radeon video card, and installed on the new Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 system (this is my first ...
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Ubuntu Oneiric Server (amd64) failed to detect QEMU HARDDISK ATA and e1000 model NIC
When I tried to clean install Ubuntu 11.10 Server (amd64) as a HVM guest on XEN (4.0.1), it failed to detect QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 hard disk and e1000 model NIC provided by xen-qemu-dm. Same thing is ...
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ASPM default enabled on kernel 3?
I would like to know if "pcie_aspm=force" is already enabled on kernel 3 or if it will be only for kernel 3.3 like the Phoronix website says. I would like to know because i want to enable it on my ...
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Screen Brightness on new MacBook Pro 8,3?
2011 8,3 MacBook Pro running 64bit 11.10.
The screen brightness keys seem to actually do things, but nothing actually changes with regard to actual laptop screen brightness. (See this video. Ubuntu ...
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11.10 x86 - memory RAM problem (shows 3.4 GB when 8 GB are installed)
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 x86 on a new computer that has 2 x 4 GB RAM installed (8 GB total).
But when I go to the Ubuntu system monitor it only shows 3.4 GB of memory (and ...
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Upgrading Hardware (GPU), will it work?
In a couple of days, I will change my old nVidia Quadro FX570 to nVidia GTX560Ti and I've been wondering if simply changing the GPU will work with my Ubuntu or it will break my system/create ...
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Is it possible to use an old computer that just has the possibility to use an USB interface WiFi?
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with on an old computer which is not very powerful, it has no WiFi on the mother board.
I would try to use an USB interface WiFi and I've seen many interfaces on the market but ...
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Boot Issue After Installing Wireless Keyboard/Mouse Combo
I received a wireless Logitech MK 550 keyboard mouse combo which is causing a boot problem. I get the following message after selecting Mint in Grub:
disk drive for /media/sdg 1 is not ready yet for ...
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How to determine / make sure whether hard-disks have spun down when using “hdparm” options?
I want to spin down some hard-disks when they are idle. So I used hdparm package. In the /etc/hdparm.conf I added following lines:
command_line {
hdparm -Ss 241 /dev/sda }
My intention was to spin ...
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Can this spec do smooth and lag free flash?
I'm about to buy the following spec:
CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 3.10 GHz
RAM: 16Gb 1600MHz
GPU: 2x GT 430 1Gb
Ignoring the RAM which I need for VM's and the 2x GPU's which I need for 4 monitors. My ...
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Recommend me a serious work PC spec [closed]
Can someone please recommend me a PC spec for serious work purposes. I am not asking for shopping advice, I am just asking for recommended spec details. Once I have the spec details, I can go and ...
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Unable to connect to Airlive Wireless AP through Ethernet
This is crazy. I've connected the Airlive WL5460AP with an ethernet cable to the computer. The computer detects the access point, but doesn't establish connection. The LAN port is LAN1 according to ...
