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I think I've had this problem before as well, on an Alienware M17 laptop.

I had Ubuntu 8.10 installed on it, then wiped it off in order to install Gentoo. That's when it started to act up,...

Ubuntu, at least recent versions, use ubiquity, therefore only the ubiquity commands will be recognized if you decide to use that installer. I do not know if you can use both ubiquity and d-i...

Here are my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.logs.


xorg.conf:


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

I have an external monitor with a resolution of 1920x1200.
When connecting my laptop to it, viewing the SystemSettings I see that my laptop's "supposed" resolution tops out at 1400x1050. It's...

Basically I installed the 9.10 catalyst drivers in Kubuntu 9.10. Booting up gives me a black screen. I can revert to the previous drivers that work, but offer no 3d acceleration.

Thing is, by...

Plug in your laptop to an external monitor and power it on.

Report whether your external monitor displays your desktop, or whether it too black screens.
I, for one, have found that an external...

I'm not too fond of adding repositories that are not officially maintained. Can someone direct this thread to the amarok 1.4.x source tarball?

EDIT:

You can find the tarball for amarok 1.4.10...

I installed the RC of ubuntu 9.10 and messed up on some user permissions so I can no longer use my sudo password.
Normally on older *buntu versions I could just press <ESC> and choose the recovery...

I use VLC for playing all my dvds. It might be a problem with movie player, so try testing it out on other players. Also, do you have libdvdcss2 installed?

sudo iwconfig [interface] essid any

(kerry_s, you forgot the interface specification.)

Where [interface] is generally wlan0 or ath0.

One reason I found that some catalyst drivers don't work, is due to the kernel version, kernel modules, and xorg.

I installed Arch on my laptop and for the life of me, catalyst wouldn't work. 9.8...

I think I found the problem. Or, at least, a fix based on a particular setting.

I run a 2.26 Ghz Dual 2 Core and ATI 3870.
My problem with the computer freezing up is generally when my 4 port usb...

Back again. After some more freezes, I have some more suspicions.

1. It seems to freeze more often when I have Firefox open, possibly a flash issue?
2. I can unmount my drives and it still tends...

I'm using Intrepid and KDE 4.2; Everytime I have an external hard drive hooked up, the computer will freeze generally every 1-3 hours. This is especially common when listening to music that is...

I have this issue too. No 3D acceleration in Jaunty.
I used the 86x_64 bit ati 9.4 catalyst driver; my card is the ATI Radeon 3870.
The 1920x1200 resolution is detected fine.

Bumping here too.

Do plasmoids use icon images, or are they built into the widget somehow?

Hey all,

I'm using KDE4 and would like to change the icon of the KDE Menu, or Application Launcher Plasmoid. (from the K-gear icon)
In KDE 3, you could download KBFX and change the menu icon. I...

Check for /dev/video

Usually that's where the webcam is mounted.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.

apt-build world

I own this board and am currently running Kubuntu 8.04.
After installing envy and selecting the nVidia drivers, everything installed and worked perfectly regarding video.

My issue is that the...

How to remove the following error:

W: GPG error: http://medibuntu[...] Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2EBC26B60C5A2783 W:...

This is a tutorial directed at new users for changing their login screen in kde.
Version 1.11

I use Kubuntu 7.10, KDE v3.5.8.
This tutorial may not work for KDE 4.0 and above.

IMPORTANT NOTES...

I have an Intel graphics accelerator card as well. As far as I can tell, intel chips do not need drivers on linux machines. I've installed linux on computers with nvidia cards and it's easy to tell...