Ubuntu, single user mode, no GUI. Then do sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to reconfigure the xorg.
The xorg. That's what it was. Thanks.
Edit: Maybe it wasnt the xorg. Looking at it, there were changes I made in an attempt to fix screen tearing but nothing about the virtualbox driver I installed. How would I go about removing the problematic driver? Ubuntu isn't using the one I just installed for my graphics card. Perhaps I'll just use the backup it made last kernel update if I can't get this to work.
Suspend fails on Fedora 15. It suspends successfully, but freezes after a very short time of use after I resume. Decent hardware (Macbook Pro from 2009). I use Nouveau graphics driver, but it's clearly not perfect, cause I get tearing when watching videos and the display port isn't working.
I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. Any suggestions?
Suspend, sleep and hibernate all fail on every OS I have tried since XP, regardless of hardware. Shit's just mental.
All works perfectly with Windows XP and up, OSX, and ChromeOS. I've had it work 75% in Linux, but not 100%. The trick is to buy the right motherboard and PSU and configure the S3 sleep mode properly in the BIOS.
The trick is to buy the right motherboard and PSU and configure the S3 sleep mode properly in the BIOS.
It's a laptop, so that's out of my control. I'll just have to trust Apple's pricetag to mean they use decent hardware. But the problem seems to be related to Gnome (I have not tried outside of Gnome, but people say it happens with nvidia integrated cards.).
I... don't think I can get to the BIOS, because, Mac. I'll try though.
Suspend fails on Fedora 15. It suspends successfully, but freezes after a very short time of use after I resume. Decent hardware (Macbook Pro from 2009). I use Nouveau graphics driver, but it's clearly not perfect, cause I get tearing when watching videos and the display port isn't working.
I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. Any suggestions?
Have you tried getting the actual Nvidia driver. I haven't followed it fully, but isn't the Nouveau driver still in alpha pretty much?
If you still have OS X on a partition on your laptop, you can try tweaking the sleep settings using the commands in this article.
Another option that may work is to install pm-utils on your machine. It seems to be the toolset that works closest to how OS X does its own suspend/hibernate control.
Have you tried getting the actual Nvidia driver. I haven't followed it fully, but isn't the Nouveau driver still in alpha pretty much?
I tried to, but it broke my Gnome, so I reverted and haven't retried it. Actually I think I did something wrong when installing it--- How exactly do I install it =P?
If you still have OS X on a partition on your laptop, you can try tweaking the sleep settings using the commands in this article.
Another option that may work is to install pm-utils on your machine. It seems to be the toolset that works closest to how OS X does its own suspend/hibernate control.
The trick is to buy the right motherboard and PSU and configure the S3 sleep mode properly in the BIOS.
I'm aware. I just don't care about finding out if it can even be set up proper. And even then, Linux fails anyway, on the one computer that did do hibernation out of the box under XP.
Have you tried getting the actual Nvidia driver. I haven't followed it fully, but isn't the Nouveau driver still in alpha pretty much?
I tried to, but it broke my Gnome, so I reverted and haven't retried it. Actually I think I did something wrong when installing it--- How exactly do I install it =P?
Hmm, don't know offhand -- it's been a while since I used Fedora and Ubuntu just has the driver as part of their package repository. This link may help you, however: Fedora 15 Nvidia Drivers Install Guide.
Is anyone else using Minecraft in Linux? Last night I got tired of Vista slowing down on me and installed Ubuntu again. I downloaded Minecraft and it worked just fine for all of last night. Today, it just locks up after a couple of minutes of playing. I thought it was a memory leak problem, but when I looked in the in-game resource monitor thing, it said it wasn't but I was still getting like 1 fps. Anyone else have this problem?
Suspending has been fixed. The problem was Nouveau. The official Nvidia drivers fixed it as well as slight tearing I was getting in video playback earlier. As a downside, I can no longer dim my screen =P __
I need a Windows installation disc. Installed Linux on a brand new laptop with a Windows license, and must've messed up partitioning. Now Windows is refusing to start up, and the manufacturer takes 60US to ship me the CD and I can't figure out how to download it from Microsoft.com. I just need the image without a license so Windows can recover from it. Does anyone know where I can get one?
Why are you making this so hard for me, Microsoft?! >=(
I need a Windows installation disc. Installed Linux on a brand new laptop with a Windows license, and must've messed up partitioning. Now Windows is refusing to start up, and the manufacturer takes 60US to ship me the CD and I can't figure out how to download it from Microsoft.com. I just need the image without a license so Windows can recover from it. Does anyone know where I can get one?
Linux may have overwritten the bootloader or something. Ubuntu just installs GRUB over the Windows one as far as I can tell, but other distros may be different.
You can always torrent the iso and still use a legit key.
Yup, I did that and It works great. On my Dell it didn't even ask me for the key because it could tell what hardware it was.
No need to fear malware? I'll do that then. _ On another hand, my most recent computer-related problem I'm unable to solve is that I'm unable to patch the GTK source from this https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/gtk+2.0/2.24.5-0ubuntu2 with the patch inside "gtk+2.0_2.24.5-0ubuntu2.debian.tar.gz" for some reason. It's only a few MB. Can someone with ~5 spare minutes see if they can patch it, then upload the patched source somewhere for me to download?
I'm trying to get Ubuntu's fancy scrollbars working on Fedora, which is proving quite troublesome.
Because Ubuntu is all custom and confusing and everything else I want comes with Fedora. Besides, I don't want the rest of the bloat added to Ubuntu GTK to make Unity work.
And I've spent so much time getting this computer perfect; I don't wanna start over T_T
Because Ubuntu is all custom and confusing and everything else I want comes with Fedora. Besides, I don't want the rest of the bloat added to Ubuntu GTK to make Unity work.
And I've spent so much time getting this computer perfect; I don't wanna start over T_T
Because Ubuntu is all custom and confusing and everything else I want comes with Fedora. Besides, I don't want the rest of the bloat added to Ubuntu GTK to make Unity work.
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 with gnome. You just select it before you log in and it works fine. I haven't noticed any bloating and it was a painless install.
Here's one for you. I got my hands on a HP Compaq TC1000 for all of £50 and I've set it up for art (with Photoshop). Problem is, the jackass who had this computer last installed XP Professional over XP Tablet on the thing and I can't get the tablet functions to work. I can do the basic pen stuff but using the buttons on the monitor (to switch sides, use the scroll wheel, etc) is a no go. I tried installing the software for the buttons from the HP legacy drivers website the drivers won't install on XP Pro.
The main way to fix this (Install XP Tablet) is not going to work here as that's not sold sepeately and installing a Linux distro would a) stop me from using Photoshop (CS2) and require an obscene amount of arse tearing to get the pen to work, never mind the buttons (saying nothing of the apparent trail that goes on installing Linux distros on it without the CD Dock)
The main way to fix this (Install XP Tablet) is not going to work here as that's not sold sepeately and installing a Linux distro would a) stop me from using Photoshop (CS2) and require an obscene amount of arse tearing to get the pen to work, never mind the buttons (saying nothing of the apparent trail that goes on installing Linux distros on it without the CD Dock)
1) Clean install Windows 7 which will support tablet-ness. 2) It's very easy to install Linux from a USB stick.
The main way to fix this (Install XP Tablet) is not going to work here as that's not sold sepeately and installing a Linux distro would a) stop me from using Photoshop (CS2) and require an obscene amount of arse tearing to get the pen to work, never mind the buttons (saying nothing of the apparent trail that goes on installing Linux distros on it without the CD Dock)
1) Clean install Windows 7 which will support tablet-ness. 2) It's very easy to install Linux from a USB stick.
1) Windows 7 will not run on the TC1000 (750's the most you get memory wise) 2) On a TC1000? Google is saying nah on that one.
The main way to fix this (Install XP Tablet) is not going to work here as that's not sold sepeately and installing a Linux distro would a) stop me from using Photoshop (CS2) and require an obscene amount of arse tearing to get the pen to work, never mind the buttons (saying nothing of the apparent trail that goes on installing Linux distros on it without the CD Dock)
Torrent the OEM XP tablet and just use the key it came with.
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sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorgto reconfigure the xorg.Edit: Maybe it wasnt the xorg. Looking at it, there were changes I made in an attempt to fix screen tearing but nothing about the virtualbox driver I installed. How would I go about removing the problematic driver? Ubuntu isn't using the one I just installed for my graphics card. Perhaps I'll just use the backup it made last kernel update if I can't get this to work.
I use Nouveau graphics driver, but it's clearly not perfect, cause I get tearing when watching videos and the display port isn't working.
I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. Any suggestions?
I... don't think I can get to the BIOS, because, Mac. I'll try though.
Also, I just upgraded to 2.4.5, and it still happens.
If you still have OS X on a partition on your laptop, you can try tweaking the sleep settings using the commands in this article.
Another option that may work is to install pm-utils on your machine. It seems to be the toolset that works closest to how OS X does its own suspend/hibernate control.
__
I need a Windows installation disc. Installed Linux on a brand new laptop with a Windows license, and must've messed up partitioning. Now Windows is refusing to start up, and the manufacturer takes 60US to ship me the CD and I can't figure out how to download it from Microsoft.com. I just need the image without a license so Windows can recover from it. Does anyone know where I can get one?
Why are you making this so hard for me, Microsoft?! >=(
Yup, I did that and It works great. On my Dell it didn't even ask me for the key because it could tell what hardware it was.
_
On another hand, my most recent computer-related problem I'm unable to solve is that I'm unable to patch the GTK source from this https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/gtk+2.0/2.24.5-0ubuntu2 with the patch inside "gtk+2.0_2.24.5-0ubuntu2.debian.tar.gz" for some reason. It's only a few MB. Can someone with ~5 spare minutes see if they can patch it, then upload the patched source somewhere for me to download?
I'm trying to get Ubuntu's fancy scrollbars working on Fedora, which is proving quite troublesome.
And I've spent so much time getting this computer perfect; I don't wanna start over T_T
http://www.apreche.net/dont-change-the-computer-change-yourself/
I tried installing the software for the buttons from the HP legacy drivers website the drivers won't install on XP Pro.
The main way to fix this (Install XP Tablet) is not going to work here as that's not sold sepeately and installing a Linux distro would a) stop me from using Photoshop (CS2) and
2) It's very easy to install Linux from a USB stick.
2) On a TC1000? Google is saying nah on that one.