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i don't know the proper term for it but i'm looking for a program that can spam key press events when i hold down a mouse or keyboard button. can anyone help me with this?	keytouch or keylaunch
folks can i stop the updating process to edgy while ubuntu still fetching packages and continue it tommorow? please i need to know =/	probably not
does anyone in here think that they could help me out getting my radeon x1600 working?	we can try
if you were aware of the incredible amount of support that bob2 does, you would step down right now	i am not impressed
does anyone know why aptitude would ask for my install cd and how can i force that not to happen?	did you add it to your sources at some time..
so, i'm trying to setup an ap from my desktop which has an integrated wireless card (rtl8187 driver) which i have setup as an ap in the past. it seems that now (since 3.0) it's unsupported and the new mac version doesn't have master/ap. is this accurate in that trying to do more is frutless until the mac80211 verion is finished?	since it is not compiled as a module by default, you may have to compile the kernel yourself
what's the name of a great piece of software that fixes hds and moves so-so sectors out of the way? i can't remember...	there is no tool capable of fixing hd physical damage, you can use the badblocks command to scan and mark damaged sector blocks
i have two ethernet cards. one is inbuilt on the motherboard. can i disable the inbuilt one?	yes go into bios and disable it at preboot
anyone installed ubuntu 6.06 on xp running virtual pc?	thats why god invented gparted
if im logged in to a computer and stiiting at it and run a command that spawns some thing graphical, i.e. feh, it works, but how can i do the same logged in over ssh?	ssh -x
hello, somebody can say me how i delete my password and my pc boot without password?	you can boot off the install media as a livecd, mount your root partition, and edit /etc/shadow
hey all! my wife has agreed to let me replace xp on her netbook w/ ubuntu (yay!), but she has an iphone and uses itunes. am i screwed, or is there a solution out there for this?	: yes
hey i just installed kde and was wondering how to i completely remove gnome & its applications	go to your application manager software/sympatic and do a search for gnome and uncheck them to uninstall. hit apply.
how to unmount ipod from terminal??	you can type mount to see whats mounted and then use umount
how do i open grub's 'menu.lst' so that i'm allowed to save it?	sudo <favorite-text-editor> /boot/grub/menu.lst
any suggestion for a fps linux game?	urbanterror. they're about to put out a new major release!
hi all. i am trying to upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 beta, but now when i resumed the process, i am getting error 'e:unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.'. how do i restart the whole process	file-roller
cp is for copy, what about cute->paste, i used chmod to change the directory permissions and then use gnome to cut/paste but if someone could give me a tip on how to cut/paste from commandline id appreciate	tried mv?
how do i turn on syntax coloring in vim on ubuntu 6.06?	'syntax on' you could add it to a local runtime configuration as well
i have intel hd integrated audio (snd-hda-intel) but i also have a soundblaster live! value (snd-emu10k1). which should i use?	sb live
help somebody i forgot how to select which java to use??? how to reconfigure path for java either gcj or the sun java?	sudo update-alternatives --config java
oh one moment: if i update the kernel (as in the upgrade) should n t i reinstall the nvidia drivers as well?	you should disable the nvidia drivers.. update your kernel.. then reinstall the nvidia drivers
hi, i'm trying to make a debian package out of a source package but i'm facing some trouble... i've used dh_make to generate the debian but that doesn't seem to be enough... when the building reachs the make install, it tries to install the files to /usr directly instead of the directory it's supossed to isntall to (debian/building-something?), some help? where should i start checking?	edit the file debian/dirs so the rules-file is creating the directories before installing something into them
when i try to mount a particular cd in ubuntu, i get: 'wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock'. it works fine in windows. any ideas?	m:) the disk probably aint closed. cd finalize disk...
i have an idea for an app (or better a system component) for ubuntu. is there a special place for suggesting that, like a certain website or irc room?	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntudevelopment
i just installed dc++, but it didn't put itself in my apps menu. so i manually added it, but i'm wondering where the icon is. any ideas?	try /usr/share/
man, anyone having troubles getting to the repos.....? i couldn't even get to them a sec ago and now i can, but it's wicked slow	the ubuntu repo servers are all overloaded atm
anybody know how to - chown: invalid user: 'apache'	the user is called www-data and not apache
how do you install the kernel source so i can build the cisco vpn client?	you probably only need the headers: sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`
does do-release-upgrade only do one release-upgrade at one time? currently i'd like to use it to do a direct update from maverick to oneiric, but all it offers is natty	yes, only one release at a time.
why are dvds in mplay and vlc all scrambled looking?	probably because you haven't done https://help.ubuntu.com/community/restrictedformats/playingdvds
howto auto record the all display of 'sudo apt-get upgrade' ?	if you run 'script output.txt' then run whatever commands you want, then type 'exit' everything that happened in between will be logged in output.txt
i'm going to be installing a cd-rw drive and a dvd drive into my box. aside from checking out the jumper setting for master or slave, is there anything else i have to do to install?	make sure you ground yourself, and while you have your case opened, clean all that dust out of there. make sure the drives are screwed in snugly, otherwise they will cause vibrations that might cause reading errors.
for some reason nothing in gutsy will automount for me via usb (ipod, flash drives, etc). anyone know the problem?	i have the same problem, not sure of the solution
folks, i need a mp3 player in ubuntu which doesnt wake up my laptop fan.... i have had tried rhythmbox and banshee, but it ends up running my fan in fullspeed even if i play a single song	mplayer song.mp3
recently upgraded to hardy, wireless now does not work. bcm43xx - any known issues?	have you tried system -> administration -> hardware drivers?
how do i cut wav files on the comand line?	mencoder will do that
are there any dissadvantages in using system->quit->hibernate instead of system->quit->shut down? hibernate is working great with my laptop, but i'm not sure if it has dissadvantages over shutdown...	sometimes my hardware doesnt get re-initialized all the time (using a tablet with wacom drivers for instance)
did you get it?	yes. maybe there is something that could help... lemme try
could someone tell me what program is running in the console here: http://news.cnet.com/2300-1001_3-6247274-2.html?tag=mncol	i think that's midnight commander.
hi all, i want to know what is the current support for ati radeon cards. mostly about video playback. i'm having trouble with the open source driver (radeon) and fglrx. in case of radeon, the video play isn't of the right color, in case of fglrx is doesn't display the video at all ...	i'm assuming that you tried 'sudo jockey-gtk'
i did an upgrade with do-release-upgrade and it got interrupted. now my system doesn't fully boot up (no xdm, no ssh daemon, etc). i tried to rerun do-release-upgrade but it failed. is there a way to force rerunning of whatever scripts should be run to get my system in a working state?	apt-get -f install
when i try to run 'hp-toolbox' for my hp printer it says 'error: pyqt not installed.' anyone suggest which qt i should download? there's like a whooole bunch of them in the repository.	when you install via a package manager the hplip packages all dependencies should be installed too
when installing vmware server console, it will not let me run the install script unless im a super user.. after installing it (with sudo) it will not let me run vmware-server-console unless im i user sudo.. how can i install this so that it shows up in my applications and doesnt require sudo from terminal??	try adding yourself to the vmware group if there is such a thing
hi, what is the command to stop the x server?	ctrl + alt + backspace
hi there, i have a simple question, how can i kill x on ubuntu 10.04?	alt+sysrq+k
hmm, how large of a usb key do i need if i want to put ubuntu onto it to install it?	4 gigs
what is better.. retricted drivers or install manually from a deb file? :/	restricted drivers
anyone know how to move/drag a gnome panel to the second monitor?	press alt and drag
can i transform unr to regular ubuntu or should i just make a new install?	you can, i think you just need to install the ubuntu-desktop package
resume from suspend works before i login to my laptop, but not after. i'm guessing some hardware driver isn't resuming correctly. i'd like to figure out which hardware drivers are loaded before login and which are loaded after so i can compare the two lists and come up with a list of suspect drivers. what's the best way of doing this?	/var/log/syslog
i want to use apache+php in ubuntu. how?	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/apachemysqlphp
hi. how can i kill a process without using his pid?	killall <prosess name>
i just did a dist-upgrade to breezy, the power icon says that my system is running on battery power, but i think it really is running on ac power, anyway to get it to display correctly?	acpi is prob having problems
what's the fastest way to make the system beep?	load a terminal and push backspace on the keyboard?
hey, i'm installing the new ubuntu and i see something about a migration assistant, allowing me to choose stuff from my windows drive... could anyone tell me what is this and what it's suppossed to do, and if it's safe to do what it asks?	it will attempt to import settings from you're windows partition, like bookmarks and email settings.
how do i check my sound server in ubuntu ... anyone?	assuming you've got a default gnome panel, double click the volume control icon, and select 'device'
hi all..does anyone know how to enable sshd on ubuntu so i can remote login to my pc?	look below
i was just dealing with today's repo updates and one of them was thunderbird. the description said it was a transitional package before the new name. i can't find anything at all about t-bird being renamed. anybody know what's up?	you can tell by noting that mozilla-thunderbird now depends on thunderbird
hi! question: whenever i sudo a command from the terminal and want it run as a separate process, say 'sudo gvim textfile.txt &', the program doesnt start up properly. i get it in the processes list (ps ax), marked with a t. i suspect that the terminal is waiting for me to enter the password for sudo'ing. now, how should i avoid that, except by removing the & ?	gksu command
if i have a second harddrive for random files maybe games, is there a difference between what partition i would want to use? besides the obvious 'not ntfs'	its storage so doesnt matter
i can't remove a nvidia broken package with apt-get install -f can someone tell me how to do it? http://paste.ubuntu.com/574148/	maybe sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq <package name>
i finally installed ubuntu on my ibm thinkpad, yippee...but... i chose the wrong keyboard lqyout, how can i change this ?	system -> preferences -> keyboard
this is freenode right?	irc.freenode.net
- that looks like a kernel error - what version of ubuntu are you using?	2.6.35-28-generic
my xubuntu computer uses the internal speaker as the default... how do i change this to the speaker plugged in?	on my hp laptop, i can switch outputs in the sound configuration utility (top right, speaker icon)
lsb_release -a does it as well	thanks, that command has better output, and isn't dependent upon the user not changing /etc/issue. thanks.
hi folks. quick question. i'm thinking of upgrading my t42 (1024x768 display) to a t510 (hd+). i haven't used any wide screen laptop before, and i'm obviously super used to the larger text size. someone has told me not to upgrade, as i'll think text is just too small, and someone else has told me to upgrade to the t510, but adjust settings in my os to 'increase text size across the board'. is that possible in ubuntu? can i run in hd+ resolution bu	it wont be a prooblem u can adjust text apearence as the way u want
hi ! what does replace microsoft frontpage 2003 in ubuntu that can make the same work ?	nvu is a good replacement
could someone who uses gnome upload his /etc/fonts/font.conf please? i've deleted it by accident...	but it should be ok, i think
what are the changes that were made in 9.10 would make a kernel rebuild necessary, the kernel i ran in 9.04 now just sits on a flickering console, while the supplied 2.6.31-14 boots with a higher console res fine into the x (rather than blindly trying to go for anything framebuffer related, i hope someone knows what parts exactly are now required for a successful boot into x)	the new kernel and x will use kernel modesetting (kms) on intel hardware.
hello everyone , i have a quick question , does the ubuntu image have a partitioning tool?	yeah, gparted is on the livecd
xgl keeps incrementally using more and more memmory until it eventually uses all my memmory. what causes it and how can i release the ram it's wasting?	don't do this
how would i uninstall a package i installed from source	do a sudo make uninstall from the source
how can i find how much video ram i have ?	/var/log/xorg.0.log will have info
is it possible to include additional software in a livecd image?	http://remastersys.com
where is 'restricted drivers manager' in 9.04?	administrator->hardware drivers
what are the ways to install a .deb ? i cant install it with gdebi ?	yes you can, if it's an ubuntu .deb
newbie needs help: my sound was working fine for quite some time. all of a sudden i can only hear the faintest noise when my speakers are at max volume. i've checked my volume levels and everything looks fine. i've rebooted and the problem did not resolve.	i had that problem, my cable was screwed, just a though :)
is there a way to host a video on my website without converting to to proprietary formats like .flv? id love to use xvid, but i need to reduce the bitrate. any ideas?	html5 supports certain video formats (non-proprietary), you should check out what exactly it supports.
if i have a cron job set to run under my username, it runs even if i'm not logged in at all, right?	pes.
making a flash drive bootable from maverick using the iso of precise (12.04) is ok?:)	but to be safe, you may want to use unetbootin instead of startup disk creator
what is the command to give a tree like structure in linux at the prompt, something similiar to tree in dos?	sudo aptitude install tree ( then you will be able to use the tree command)
has anyone here ever tried installing ubuntu on external hdd? does it work ok? is it easy to switch computers?	yes yes and yes
i just put a blank dvd in my drive and am trying to use the built in ubuntu burn:/// window to burn one, however when i click write to disc it just says please insert a blank dvd. the drive works, i just burnt a dvd in windows yesterday, and i've tried 3 different dvds (including different brands).	have you tried using gnomebaker or k3b to burn with?
anyone familiar with the eclipse package, i tried apt-getting eclipse but got 'couldnt find'	^^^^^
on my laptop, sometimes 'lspci' shows wifi card and sometimes it doesn't. what should i do?	intermittent problems are the worst. :-(
did you resolve autogen problem?	yeah i deleted some files and it works now
hello, i've installed ubuntu 8.10 from a 'minimal' cd and i'm having a hard time installing 'restricted drivers manager'. anyone have a clue in which package that thing is?	restricted-manager i think
i'm having a problem with my touchpad (netbook, ubuntu 10.4 netbook remix): it seems that synaptics doesn't like my touchpad: http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/64te3nta (important part of /var/log/xorg.0.log)	your touchpad works or not ? the logs seems fine till line 50
for grep, is there a symbol to represent not?	also in a regex, [^x] means not x
how can i batch resize images in ubuntu?	uhh... graphicsmagick
howto check exit code of the last bash command?	well, $? --- echo $? will just show it
if i want to force shutdown an application that is stuck, how do i do?	killall appname
why oh why does this fail? sudo echo -e '#!/bin/bash\napt-cache show $*\n' > /usr/local/bin/acshow it says 'bash: /usr/local/bin/acshow: permission denied	because the redirection is done by the shell you are running, which only has your user permissions. pipe to 'tee' instead
is there any tool that will tell what all connections are made to my system. even when i dont do anything something is chewing through my bandwidth. want to find out which one is the culprit.	sorry iftop
is there any personal good finance software out there for linux? something that can keep track of bank accounts, stocks, etc...	kmymoney works nice.
on gutsy, how can i bring the menu/ app for 'propietary software'	in a terminal, running restricted-manager should do it
hi. how to change user's initial group?	edit /etc/passwd
hi, i have a font problem: on ubuntu 8.04 - firefox 3 displays just lines instead of text unless i have firefox -> prefs: 'allow pages to choose their own font' disabled. can anyone help or suggest alt. irc channel please?	: firefox

i don't know the proper term for it but i'm looking for a program that can spam key press events when i hold down a mouse or keyboard button. can anyone help me with this?

keytouch or keylaunch

folks can i stop the updating process to edgy while ubuntu still fetching packages and continue it tommorow? please i need to know =/

probably not

does anyone in here think that they could help me out getting my radeon x1600 working?

we can try

if you were aware of the incredible amount of support that bob2 does, you would step down right now

i am not impressed

does anyone know why aptitude would ask for my install cd and how can i force that not to happen?

did you add it to your sources at some time..

so, i'm trying to setup an ap from my desktop which has an integrated wireless card (rtl8187 driver) which i have setup as an ap in the past. it seems that now (since 3.0) it's unsupported and the new mac version doesn't have master/ap. is this accurate in that trying to do more is frutless until the mac80211 verion is finished?

since it is not compiled as a module by default, you may have to compile the kernel yourself

what's the name of a great piece of software that fixes hds and moves so-so sectors out of the way? i can't remember...

there is no tool capable of fixing hd physical damage, you can use the badblocks command to scan and mark damaged sector blocks

i have two ethernet cards. one is inbuilt on the motherboard. can i disable the inbuilt one?

yes go into bios and disable it at preboot

anyone installed ubuntu 6.06 on xp running virtual pc?

thats why god invented gparted

if im logged in to a computer and stiiting at it and run a command that spawns some thing graphical, i.e. feh, it works, but how can i do the same logged in over ssh?

ssh -x

hello, somebody can say me how i delete my password and my pc boot without password?

you can boot off the install media as a livecd, mount your root partition, and edit /etc/shadow

hey all! my wife has agreed to let me replace xp on her netbook w/ ubuntu (yay!), but she has an iphone and uses itunes. am i screwed, or is there a solution out there for this?

: yes

hey i just installed kde and was wondering how to i completely remove gnome & its applications

go to your application manager software/sympatic and do a search for gnome and uncheck them to uninstall. hit apply.

how to unmount ipod from terminal??

you can type mount to see whats mounted and then use umount

how do i open grub's 'menu.lst' so that i'm allowed to save it?

sudo <favorite-text-editor> /boot/grub/menu.lst

any suggestion for a fps linux game?

urbanterror. they're about to put out a new major release!

hi all. i am trying to upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 beta, but now when i resumed the process, i am getting error 'e:unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.'. how do i restart the whole process

file-roller

cp is for copy, what about cute->paste, i used chmod to change the directory permissions and then use gnome to cut/paste but if someone could give me a tip on how to cut/paste from commandline id appreciate

tried mv?

how do i turn on syntax coloring in vim on ubuntu 6.06?

'syntax on' you could add it to a local runtime configuration as well

i have intel hd integrated audio (snd-hda-intel) but i also have a soundblaster live! value (snd-emu10k1). which should i use?

sb live

help somebody i forgot how to select which java to use??? how to reconfigure path for java either gcj or the sun java?

sudo update-alternatives --config java

oh one moment: if i update the kernel (as in the upgrade) should n t i reinstall the nvidia drivers as well?

you should disable the nvidia drivers.. update your kernel.. then reinstall the nvidia drivers

hi, i'm trying to make a debian package out of a source package but i'm facing some trouble... i've used dh_make to generate the debian but that doesn't seem to be enough... when the building reachs the make install, it tries to install the files to /usr directly instead of the directory it's supossed to isntall to (debian/building-something?), some help? where should i start checking?

edit the file debian/dirs so the rules-file is creating the directories before installing something into them

when i try to mount a particular cd in ubuntu, i get: 'wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock'. it works fine in windows. any ideas?

m:) the disk probably aint closed. cd finalize disk...

i have an idea for an app (or better a system component) for ubuntu. is there a special place for suggesting that, like a certain website or irc room?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntudevelopment

i just installed dc++, but it didn't put itself in my apps menu. so i manually added it, but i'm wondering where the icon is. any ideas?

try /usr/share/

man, anyone having troubles getting to the repos.....? i couldn't even get to them a sec ago and now i can, but it's wicked slow

the ubuntu repo servers are all overloaded atm

anybody know how to - chown: invalid user: 'apache'

the user is called www-data and not apache

how do you install the kernel source so i can build the cisco vpn client?

you probably only need the headers: sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`

does do-release-upgrade only do one release-upgrade at one time? currently i'd like to use it to do a direct update from maverick to oneiric, but all it offers is natty

yes, only one release at a time.

why are dvds in mplay and vlc all scrambled looking?

probably because you haven't done https://help.ubuntu.com/community/restrictedformats/playingdvds

howto auto record the all display of 'sudo apt-get upgrade' ?

if you run 'script output.txt' then run whatever commands you want, then type 'exit' everything that happened in between will be logged in output.txt

i'm going to be installing a cd-rw drive and a dvd drive into my box. aside from checking out the jumper setting for master or slave, is there anything else i have to do to install?

make sure you ground yourself, and while you have your case opened, clean all that dust out of there. make sure the drives are screwed in snugly, otherwise they will cause vibrations that might cause reading errors.

for some reason nothing in gutsy will automount for me via usb (ipod, flash drives, etc). anyone know the problem?

i have the same problem, not sure of the solution

folks, i need a mp3 player in ubuntu which doesnt wake up my laptop fan.... i have had tried rhythmbox and banshee, but it ends up running my fan in fullspeed even if i play a single song

mplayer song.mp3

recently upgraded to hardy, wireless now does not work. bcm43xx - any known issues?

have you tried system -> administration -> hardware drivers?

how do i cut wav files on the comand line?

mencoder will do that

are there any dissadvantages in using system->quit->hibernate instead of system->quit->shut down? hibernate is working great with my laptop, but i'm not sure if it has dissadvantages over shutdown...

sometimes my hardware doesnt get re-initialized all the time (using a tablet with wacom drivers for instance)

did you get it?

yes. maybe there is something that could help... lemme try

could someone tell me what program is running in the console here: http://news.cnet.com/2300-1001_3-6247274-2.html?tag=mncol

i think that's midnight commander.

hi all, i want to know what is the current support for ati radeon cards. mostly about video playback. i'm having trouble with the open source driver (radeon) and fglrx. in case of radeon, the video play isn't of the right color, in case of fglrx is doesn't display the video at all ...

i'm assuming that you tried 'sudo jockey-gtk'

i did an upgrade with do-release-upgrade and it got interrupted. now my system doesn't fully boot up (no xdm, no ssh daemon, etc). i tried to rerun do-release-upgrade but it failed. is there a way to force rerunning of whatever scripts should be run to get my system in a working state?

apt-get -f install

when i try to run 'hp-toolbox' for my hp printer it says 'error: pyqt not installed.' anyone suggest which qt i should download? there's like a whooole bunch of them in the repository.

when you install via a package manager the hplip packages all dependencies should be installed too

when installing vmware server console, it will not let me run the install script unless im a super user.. after installing it (with sudo) it will not let me run vmware-server-console unless im i user sudo.. how can i install this so that it shows up in my applications and doesnt require sudo from terminal??

try adding yourself to the vmware group if there is such a thing

hi, what is the command to stop the x server?

ctrl + alt + backspace

hi there, i have a simple question, how can i kill x on ubuntu 10.04?

alt+sysrq+k

hmm, how large of a usb key do i need if i want to put ubuntu onto it to install it?

4 gigs

what is better.. retricted drivers or install manually from a deb file? :/

restricted drivers

anyone know how to move/drag a gnome panel to the second monitor?

press alt and drag

can i transform unr to regular ubuntu or should i just make a new install?

you can, i think you just need to install the ubuntu-desktop package

resume from suspend works before i login to my laptop, but not after. i'm guessing some hardware driver isn't resuming correctly. i'd like to figure out which hardware drivers are loaded before login and which are loaded after so i can compare the two lists and come up with a list of suspect drivers. what's the best way of doing this?

/var/log/syslog

i want to use apache+php in ubuntu. how?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/apachemysqlphp

hi. how can i kill a process without using his pid?

killall <prosess name>

i just did a dist-upgrade to breezy, the power icon says that my system is running on battery power, but i think it really is running on ac power, anyway to get it to display correctly?

acpi is prob having problems

what's the fastest way to make the system beep?

load a terminal and push backspace on the keyboard?

hey, i'm installing the new ubuntu and i see something about a migration assistant, allowing me to choose stuff from my windows drive... could anyone tell me what is this and what it's suppossed to do, and if it's safe to do what it asks?

it will attempt to import settings from you're windows partition, like bookmarks and email settings.

how do i check my sound server in ubuntu ... anyone?

assuming you've got a default gnome panel, double click the volume control icon, and select 'device'

hi all..does anyone know how to enable sshd on ubuntu so i can remote login to my pc?

look below

i was just dealing with today's repo updates and one of them was thunderbird. the description said it was a transitional package before the new name. i can't find anything at all about t-bird being renamed. anybody know what's up?

you can tell by noting that mozilla-thunderbird now depends on thunderbird

hi! question: whenever i sudo a command from the terminal and want it run as a separate process, say 'sudo gvim textfile.txt &', the program doesnt start up properly. i get it in the processes list (ps ax), marked with a t. i suspect that the terminal is waiting for me to enter the password for sudo'ing. now, how should i avoid that, except by removing the & ?

gksu command

if i have a second harddrive for random files maybe games, is there a difference between what partition i would want to use? besides the obvious 'not ntfs'

its storage so doesnt matter

i can't remove a nvidia broken package with apt-get install -f can someone tell me how to do it? http://paste.ubuntu.com/574148/

maybe sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq <package name>

i finally installed ubuntu on my ibm thinkpad, yippee...but... i chose the wrong keyboard lqyout, how can i change this ?

system -> preferences -> keyboard

this is freenode right?

irc.freenode.net

- that looks like a kernel error - what version of ubuntu are you using?

2.6.35-28-generic

my xubuntu computer uses the internal speaker as the default... how do i change this to the speaker plugged in?

on my hp laptop, i can switch outputs in the sound configuration utility (top right, speaker icon)

lsb_release -a does it as well

thanks, that command has better output, and isn't dependent upon the user not changing /etc/issue. thanks.

hi folks. quick question. i'm thinking of upgrading my t42 (1024x768 display) to a t510 (hd+). i haven't used any wide screen laptop before, and i'm obviously super used to the larger text size. someone has told me not to upgrade, as i'll think text is just too small, and someone else has told me to upgrade to the t510, but adjust settings in my os to 'increase text size across the board'. is that possible in ubuntu? can i run in hd+ resolution bu

it wont be a prooblem u can adjust text apearence as the way u want

hi ! what does replace microsoft frontpage 2003 in ubuntu that can make the same work ?

nvu is a good replacement

could someone who uses gnome upload his /etc/fonts/font.conf please? i've deleted it by accident...

but it should be ok, i think

what are the changes that were made in 9.10 would make a kernel rebuild necessary, the kernel i ran in 9.04 now just sits on a flickering console, while the supplied 2.6.31-14 boots with a higher console res fine into the x (rather than blindly trying to go for anything framebuffer related, i hope someone knows what parts exactly are now required for a successful boot into x)

the new kernel and x will use kernel modesetting (kms) on intel hardware.

hello everyone , i have a quick question , does the ubuntu image have a partitioning tool?

yeah, gparted is on the livecd

xgl keeps incrementally using more and more memmory until it eventually uses all my memmory. what causes it and how can i release the ram it's wasting?

don't do this

how would i uninstall a package i installed from source

do a sudo make uninstall from the source

how can i find how much video ram i have ?

/var/log/xorg.0.log will have info

is it possible to include additional software in a livecd image?

http://remastersys.com

where is 'restricted drivers manager' in 9.04?

administrator->hardware drivers

what are the ways to install a .deb ? i cant install it with gdebi ?

yes you can, if it's an ubuntu .deb

newbie needs help: my sound was working fine for quite some time. all of a sudden i can only hear the faintest noise when my speakers are at max volume. i've checked my volume levels and everything looks fine. i've rebooted and the problem did not resolve.

i had that problem, my cable was screwed, just a though :)

is there a way to host a video on my website without converting to to proprietary formats like .flv? id love to use xvid, but i need to reduce the bitrate. any ideas?

html5 supports certain video formats (non-proprietary), you should check out what exactly it supports.

if i have a cron job set to run under my username, it runs even if i'm not logged in at all, right?

pes.

making a flash drive bootable from maverick using the iso of precise (12.04) is ok?:)

but to be safe, you may want to use unetbootin instead of startup disk creator

what is the command to give a tree like structure in linux at the prompt, something similiar to tree in dos?

sudo aptitude install tree ( then you will be able to use the tree command)

has anyone here ever tried installing ubuntu on external hdd? does it work ok? is it easy to switch computers?

yes yes and yes

i just put a blank dvd in my drive and am trying to use the built in ubuntu burn:/// window to burn one, however when i click write to disc it just says please insert a blank dvd. the drive works, i just burnt a dvd in windows yesterday, and i've tried 3 different dvds (including different brands).

have you tried using gnomebaker or k3b to burn with?

anyone familiar with the eclipse package, i tried apt-getting eclipse but got 'couldnt find'

^^^^^

on my laptop, sometimes 'lspci' shows wifi card and sometimes it doesn't. what should i do?

intermittent problems are the worst. :-(

did you resolve autogen problem?

yeah i deleted some files and it works now

hello, i've installed ubuntu 8.10 from a 'minimal' cd and i'm having a hard time installing 'restricted drivers manager'. anyone have a clue in which package that thing is?

restricted-manager i think

i'm having a problem with my touchpad (netbook, ubuntu 10.4 netbook remix): it seems that synaptics doesn't like my touchpad: http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/64te3nta (important part of /var/log/xorg.0.log)

your touchpad works or not ? the logs seems fine till line 50

for grep, is there a symbol to represent not?

also in a regex, [^x] means not x

how can i batch resize images in ubuntu?

uhh... graphicsmagick

howto check exit code of the last bash command?

well, $? --- echo $? will just show it

if i want to force shutdown an application that is stuck, how do i do?

killall *appname*

why oh why does this fail? sudo echo -e '#!/bin/bash\napt-cache show $*\n' > /usr/local/bin/acshow it says 'bash: /usr/local/bin/acshow: permission denied

because the redirection is done by the shell you are running, which only has your user permissions. pipe to 'tee' instead

is there any tool that will tell what all connections are made to my system. even when i dont do anything something is chewing through my bandwidth. want to find out which one is the culprit.

sorry iftop

is there any personal good finance software out there for linux? something that can keep track of bank accounts, stocks, etc...

kmymoney works nice.

on gutsy, how can i bring the menu/ app for 'propietary software'

in a terminal, running restricted-manager should do it

hi. how to change user's initial group?

edit /etc/passwd

hi, i have a font problem: on ubuntu 8.04 - firefox 3 displays just lines instead of text unless i have firefox -> prefs: 'allow pages to choose their own font' disabled. can anyone help or suggest alt. irc channel please?

: firefox