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| bio | website | magicspin.jku.at |
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| location | Linz, Austria | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years |
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Apr 23 |
answered | Installing multiple Ubuntu distros via wubi? |
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Apr 22 |
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Will upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 wipe my hard drive? Yet, it doesn't hurt to make a backup first, in case something goes wrong. It is anyhow always a good idea to have an up to date backup. |
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Apr 22 |
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Xorg.conf 2 identical monitors one VGA one HDMI different quality What you could try is to add a custom modeline to your xorg.conf for the monitor connected by VGA. I used this to set the resolution on an ancient CRT... There are numerous guides and calculators for this on the net. By a quick google search I found for instance: arachnoid.com/modelines |
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Apr 22 |
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Xorg.conf 2 identical monitors one VGA one HDMI different quality Are you sure that your issues are not caused by the analog/digital converter in your monitor? Many LCD screens have very poor a/d converters and therefore give bad quality when connecting them by an analogue cable like VGA. In such a case, there's no software solution... |
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Apr 19 |
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Age of Empire install problem Let me elaborate this a little: While wine really often fails to run copy protected games, also using an .iso CD image will most likely not work, also not under Windows, since .iso only stores the file system but no details about the physical disc. The next thing is, that mounting a CD image, while giving you filesystem access, does not emulate a CD drive, yet many copy protection tools try to talk to the CD drive hardware directly. In order to emulate CD-drive hardware, special software is required. With Linux one can use cdemu.sourceforge.net (with gcdemu as a GUI). |
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Apr 19 |
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Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome 3 Login Screen Bad position I had similar issues with gdm and fglrx and was unable to solve them. My 'solution' was to disable all screens except for my main monitor in amdcccle. Another thing you could do is to install another display manager and then use "sudo update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" to switch to that one. My suggestion would be lightdm, for its dependencies should be installed on your system already. |
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Apr 19 |
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Why is usb file transfer so slow in 12.10? There can be many reasons. Please run "dmesg | tail" in a terminal after plugging the USB drive and post the output. That should give hints if there are driver issues. Also, please tell us what file system is on your pen drive (might for instance be that the memory reserved for the journal of a journaling file system is slowly dieing and therefore performance goes down). |
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Apr 17 |
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How to change settings in order to see what I am typing? If you are using firefox and want a quick way to switch text colours, take a look at the colortoggle firefox extension. Otherwise, if your system colours are acting strange, try to go back to the default theme (system settings -> appearance). |
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Apr 17 |
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Installing Drivers from ATI Website? Maybe one should explain what installing drivers from Ubuntu Repos means: Ubuntu by default uses open source drivers (which are less buggy, but also draw more power), yet it also supplies you with a convenient way to get the "official" drivers from AMD without going to their website and installing them by hand: Go to System Settings -> Additional Drivers, select fglrx-updates and click the activate button. Done. For your information, the .run file you got from AMD has to get the executable permission in order for you to run it (chmod +x <filename>), but anyhow, you shouldn't need it. |
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Apr 17 |
answered | Couldn't get desktop environment |
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Apr 16 |
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NFS does not see underlying NTFS By default, Nfs exports don't include mounted directories. If you export a folder on the mounted hdd, it should work. I don't remember by heart, if there's also an option one can specify in exports to transgress filesystem boundaries. Maybe you should read the exports man page. |
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Apr 16 |
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Installation to external hard drive - not booting That might not be easy to solve. It looks like your BIOS does not detect the external drive as a hard disk. If your machine has both USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports, try to use the 2.0 port as well, for many mainboards have an additional USB 3.0 chip that might be the cause of your trouble. If this doesn't help, check the BIOS, if there's a setting called something like USB emulation type and set it to HDD. |
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Apr 16 |
answered | Download Streaming Video |
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Apr 16 |
answered | How do I set the screen resolution to 1600x900 in Ubuntu 12.10? |
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Apr 16 |
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12.10 Installation Passphrase Stall - What is my Passphrase? Did you encrypt your hard disk? |
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Apr 16 |
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I don't know my passphrase passwd only requires the current password, if you are not root (or if you are root and want to change the root password). Root can change the password of any ordinary user without knowing the current one. |
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Apr 16 |
answered | Skype sound not working and crashes while in call |
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Apr 16 |
answered | How Install gio-unix-2.28.0 |
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Apr 16 |
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How to run a script immediately after the start splash screen appears? I don"t want to spoil your plan, but since X11 is only started after the splash screen disappears, your script will probably not work while the splash screen is still up. Anyhow, if you want to add scripts to system startup, read help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBootupHowto#Writing_Services |
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Apr 16 |
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How can I mount a windows 7 partition from Ubuntu (with no knowledge of what I'm doing)? Before you continue: Think carefully what you are doing. You might be accessing private files of the previous owner, breaching that persons privacy. Ok, now to your issue: Windows uses NTFS, which should be supported out of the box under Ubuntu. So simply go to the file manager and select the Windows HDD from the list on the left. If that does not work, post the error message here, so we might have a clue why it doesn't. |
