July 4th, 2009
Hi, I’m using Ubuntu 9.04 and when I try to change the background, it always looks blurry. It doesn’t matter if I right click and image and choose ’set as Desktop Background’ or if I first save the image and then try to set it as the background, it’s always blurry. I’ve tried various sizes of images and it’s all the same. I checked my settings and they are
Resolution: 1366 x 768 (16:9) and also 96 x 96 dpi.
My icons are very clear, browser is very clear, programs clear, etc…just the background turns out blurry. Any suggestions?
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July 4th, 2009
new beginner here. I keep looking and reading but don’t understand so much. I thought I downloaded mykmoney, and when i click the icon, i get this message: this xml file does not appear to have any style onformation associated with it. The document tree is shown below. So where’s the program:? Tried gnucash, same thing. In the download site it said, easy one click download. Hmmmm, ok, if you say so.
If I minimize anything, I can’t see where it goes. It’s like it goes below the screen area and I cant see it or retrieve it. i’m at the smallest resolution offered by ubuntu.
So what am I doing wrong? I have 8.1 . I can navigate around the system, get on internet, go to sites, etc. I can’t get evolution to work yet either, but I think thats just a wron address ‘m putting in or something. Can anyone help steer me to the simple one click mykmoney or gnucassh and make it work?
thanks in advance.
PS please don’t tell me to go back to windows………
Jim
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July 4th, 2009
Help please. I have a Dell Inspiron 15N. My sound stopped working after I upgraded.
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July 4th, 2009
I’m headed to Asia and my only internet access will be at various cybercafes. I don’t trust the machines there (or in any public place in any country), particularly the Windows machines, and would like to be able to temporarily boot to Ubuntu on them to gain a little security. The simplest option I can think of is to just take an Ubuntu CD with me and reboot into Ubuntu. Is this the best way to go? Are there other options (flash drive, perhaps) that I should use instead? Is there a way to boot into Ubuntu without having to reboot the machine I’m using? Any advice is appreciated.
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July 4th, 2009
I’m quite new to linux and want to install my firewire audio card. It’s an Onyx Firewire Option Card.
I can get it to work with Jack, so far so good. So i can play any audio file with : "mplayer -ao jack"
Now i want to redirect my ALSA output to Jack so I can hear everything through my Jack outputs.
I tried this asoundrc file:
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind…rc#JACK_plugin
But it doesn’t seem to work.
Has anybody any suggestions?
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July 4th, 2009
Hello everyone,
i want just to know what is your favorite application that you use on ubuntu
for me I am kinda HTOP fan ;).
thanks
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July 4th, 2009
Seems a little backwards since most flash issues I’ve seen involve missing sound. I have Adobe’s flash player installed and get both sound and video just fine in Firefox, but I only get sound in Opera 9.64. Running Jaunty 64-bit, if that’s important. Based on the handful of threads I’ve found about this same problem, I’ve tried copying /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so to /home/me and /usr/lib/opera/plugins, but neither seemed to work.
It’s not a huge problem since flash is working fine in Firefox, but it is a little irksome. If anyone has any ideas, I’m all ears.
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July 4th, 2009
Hi
I have a rtl8187b wireless card in my laptop. I installed Ubuntu Jaunty and the wireless works perfectly but my cpu usage is always around 50% due to problems with my intel graphics card. I tried following the workaround for intel graphics given in this link
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582
but it did not solve my problems with high cpu usage which was heating my laptop.
I have now downgraded to hardy heron and my cpu usage is normal but my wireless does not work. I followed this link to get my wireless working
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi…ealtekRTL8187b
It helped but I still cannot connect to wpa and sometimes network manager crashes when I connect to different networks (at work). I was wondering if there was any way by which I could install the wireless drivers of jaunty in hardy.
Thanks;)
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July 4th, 2009
I attempted to install the 190.09 driver my Nvidia graphics card.
I received the following output from aptitude:
Code:
(Reading database ... 278070 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-180-kernel-source (from …/nvidia-180-kernel-source_190.09-0ubuntu0_amd64.deb) …
rm: cannot remove `/usr/src/nvidia-185.19.1~really185.18.14′: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-180-kernel-source_190.09-0ubuntu0_amd64.deb (–unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-180-libvdpau.
Unpacking nvidia-180-libvdpau (from …/nvidia-180-libvdpau_190.09-0ubuntu0_amd64.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx-180.
Unpacking nvidia-glx-180 (from …/nvidia-glx-180_190.09-0ubuntu0_amd64.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-settings.
Unpacking nvidia-settings (from …/nvidia-settings_180.25-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-180-kernel-source_190.09-0ubuntu0_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up nvidia-settings (180.25-0ubuntu1) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-glx-180:
nvidia-glx-180 depends on nvidia-180-kernel-source (>= 190.09); however:
Package nvidia-180-kernel-source is not installed.
dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx-180 (–configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up nvidia-180-libvdpau (190.09-0ubuntu0) …
Processing triggers for libc6 …
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
nvidia-glx-180
Press return to continue.
How can I fix this problem?
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July 4th, 2009
Hi I just upgraded to 8.04 from 7.10 and Audacity, when i record, begins to jump and stall ruining the recording every time, it’s really affecting me, it began for no reason just before i upgraded to 8.04 and has not gone away, seriously slowing me down and ruining the whole idea of linux, i have tried lowering the sample rate, sudo nice -20 audacity, using xcfe session while trying these also doesn’t help. Thanks so much for any assistance it’s a big problem.
Amabo Te
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