Questions tagged [ubuntu-10.10]
Ubuntu 10.10 (aka Maverick Meerkat) is the 13th release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
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How to tell what HDMI version my system supports - Ubuntu Linux (10.10)
Looking to see if the HDMI output of my machine (with an nVIDIA GeForce 460M card) is HDMI 1.3 compatible or not. Not sure what the command is to tell that.
Thanks in advance!
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screen remains black after screen lock
My new installation of Ubuntu 10.10 by default locks the screen after doing nothing for 5 minutes. This is just what I want, but after that I am not able to unlock it again. The screen remains black ...
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"Invalid argument" or "No such file or directory" during mounting a shared folder between Win 7 Host and Ubuntu 10.10 Guest
Host is Windows 7 and has e:\uShared as a folder to be shared with VB Guest
Ubuntu 10.10
Guest is Ubuntu 10.10 and has home/darius/shfolder to be used to share files
with host OS.
I have gone to VB ...
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ubuntu 10.10: How to recover accidentally deleted files?
I did
$ sudo python
dir="bla/python2.6/dist-packages"
file="bla1.egg"
import shutil
shutil.rmtree(dir)
I should have done shutil.rmtree(file)
The files didn't go to the trash ...
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How to confirm sector error on a video DVD
If a DVD skips at around 21:00 mark is there anyway to relate that to kernel messages?I would like to know if the DVD format is standard enough that I could compare the time the movie skips with the ...
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Ubuntu doesn't detect microphone
The built in microphone of my Dell Inspiron 1525 is working fine in Windows. But it is not getting detected in Ubuntu. What can I do to make it functional.
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How can I recover a broken Windows admin account on a machine that runs both Win7 and Ubuntu 10.10?
I'm using a Compaq 610 laptop running Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7. I left a Windows 7 administrator account logged in in the morning, but when I try to log on now, I get the error message
The user ...
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Is there a way to group and hide tray/notification area icons in Ubuntu?
tray icons take a lot of space. is there a solution that is similar to windows 7, where the tray icons are grouped together and hidden?
any other way to reduce the number of tray icons? one way i can ...
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Cannot change permissions in symlinked dropbox directory in Ubuntu 10.10
Title pretty much says it all, but here's what I'm doing...
ls -l produces this...
drwx------ 1 brian brian 4096 2010-12-28 14:19 foldername
-rw------- 1 brian brian 0 2010-12-28 15:54 index.html
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No sound Ubuntu 10.10 (have SB Live! card)
I am new to Linux/Ubuntu and I just installed 10.10 on my Dell Desktop PC that was running Windows XP. The PC is about 5-6 years old and the sound card it has is a SoundBlaster Live! card. The Sound ...
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wpa_supplicant loops between GROUP_HANDSHAKE and COMPLETED: Intel Wifi 5100 & Belkin
I'm using Ubuntu Studio 10.10 x64. I want to get wireless networking going manually. My wireless networking works successfully in Windows 7 x64.
I've also posted this question at http://ubuntuforums....
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using Ubuntu 10.10 I want my speakers and head phones as separate devices
I would like it if I could set my rear speaker jack, not surround sound rear, to be used as the system default only. I want the head phones, that plug into the front of my PC, to be silent, unless I ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 on Acer V5-472 with HD 4000
I have an Acer V5-472 with intel HD4000 graphics chipset and a built-in 1366*768 display.
I have installed ubuntu 13.10 amd64 in legacy boot mode with an external monitor.
Installation showed no ...
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Keyboard is behaving weird
When I try to type cle automatically the Edit-> Paste menu is opened in my terminal.
After that I am not able to enter anything in the terminal by keyboard.
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Installing Windows 7 in a PC where there is Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed in my PC and I want to install Windows 7 in another drive, which partially contains some data, so that I can use both OSs in a dual boot scheme.
I have read on the web ...
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How to know if the BIOS in my Macbook Pro is running in EFI mode or BIOS emulation mode when in Linux
I totally replaced OSX with Linux.
In Ubuntu 10.10, how can I tell which mode the BIOS is running in?
Is it better to have it running in EFI mode?
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Right-click menu mask persisting on my screen
Somethign very strange has happened on my computer. I'm running the latest install of Ubuntu, and using the latest version of chrome, though this has happened on previous builds of both.
The right-...
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Mistakenly ran "sudo apt-get remove python" (system is not working in normal mode, is there any solution?)
By mistake I ran the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python
After this my PC is no longer working properly.
It shows graphics problem during restarting and every time it starts in Grub ...
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Skype close application bug on Ubuntu
Closing Skype on Ubuntu does not work. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and Skype 2.2.0.35.
When I try to use Skype on subsequent occasions, it says Skype is still running. I have to kill it the hard way.
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Photoshop CS5 on Ubuntu 10.10 no longer opens after installing Internet Explorer 8
I installed Photoshop CS5 in Ubuntu 10.10 using Wine - it was working fine.
Later I tried to install Internet Explorer 8 with Wine. After this, Photoshop is no longer able to load; if I click the ...
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How do I get Windows 7 to see Ubuntu 10.10 shares?
My Windows 7 computer can't see the folders I shared on Ubuntu laptop. The other way around works fine and I can open files shared in Windows from Ubuntu.
I have already tried to install and ...
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New mail alert in Thunderbird
I successfully configured Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.15 in my Ubuntu 10.10.
I want some addon for popping up the new mails alerts, some thing like New Mail alert in a separate dialog box as we can set ...
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Microsoft 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine on VirtualBox?
Since I'm looking to improve my Sharepoint knowledge, I downloaded the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (SP1) from Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/...
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Installing compizconfig settings manager causes "hide all normal windows and set focus to the desktop" to stop working
I've installed a CompizConfig Settings Manager on Ubuntu 10.10. A filter in the program disables "hide all normal windows and set focus to the desktop" because of a conflict. I don't know what is ...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu
I used a live CD to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my HP Netbook (Mini Atom 1GHz CPU). I booted it up and then upgraded it to 11.04 Natty Narwhal. From the below I assume it got hacked, so how do I securely ...
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Nothing on Ubuntu desktop but Ubuntu color home screen
I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 - my desktop loads up but doesn't have any search icons or system search. I can log in and also right click but that's all. Nothing on the desktop but the Ubuntu color page....
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What memory settings make a reasonable compromise for OpenOffice?
Regarding the settings at the OpenOffice dialog:
Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Memory
I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 and I have 4GB on a 2.8GHz quad core x86-64 architecture machine. I would consider my ...
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Run xscreensaver whenever the lid is closed
How can I run xscreensaver whenever the lid is closed? I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with the awesome window manager.
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Ubuntu/Windows dual boot
After Installing Windows 7, I lost Grub and was unable to boot Ubuntu. After booting Puppy Linux using live CD by mistake I also deleted the boot/grub folder on the Ubuntu partition. How can I boot ...
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Default folder from which commands execute
Once I upgraded to Maverick Ubuntu, bash shell in gnome-terminal starts by default at root rather than my home directory, this was easily fixable by adding a cd command in .bashrc. However, this is ...
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Synergy 1.4.2 locks up server machine w/out connection
If the connection between the server (in my case Windows 7 64bit, synergy 1.4.2) and the client (Ubuntu 10.10, synergy 1.4.2) is lost the pointer and keyboard stay on the client machine, making ...
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Xvnc4 started from xinetd only displays empty gray X screen
I'm attempting to setup an Ubuntu 10.10 box so that anyone can connect to port 5900 and be greeted by the gdm login manager. To do so, I added a vnc entry in /etc/services and I am starting Xvnc4 ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 how to change/create password keyring
when I try to remote desktop to the server from another ubuntu machine using the remote desktop viewer, it asks me to enter the password, which I do, then the viewer pane just goes black. When I come ...
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Displaylink USB video adapter not working under Ubuntu 10.10
I just bought this USB graphics adapter and I need to use it on Ubuntu 10.10. I followed this guide, but when I ran
$ ./configure && sudo make install && make check
nothing happened. ...
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Permanently changing permission of device
My question is related to a Saving permission changes for device question except it is for Ubuntu 10.10: Maverick.
I just setup a FireWire audio interface. Everything works fine, except for I need rw-...
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Gvim with Ubuntu 10.10 transparency
Looking to see if its possible or otherwise.
I also have transparency=15
Error detected while processing /home/user/.gvimrc:
line 25:
E518: Unknown option: transparency=15
So far have gotten ...
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Problems login ubuntu 10.10
I recently change my compiz settings for my cube and upon restarting my pc it first black screened, where it got stuck, on this screen the last command stated that it was checking the battery status, ...
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How can I configure a network interface to be available to a VirtualBox guest and be unused by the host?
On a host system with two physical network interfaces, how can I designate one interface to be used only by a VirtualBox guest OS?
Both host and guest are Ubuntu 10.10 running NetworkManager. Ideally,...
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Just installed NVIDIA restricted driver for Ubuntu and now my Macbook Pro (6,2) only boots to CLI
I just installed NVIDIA restricted driver for Ubuntu and now my Macbook Pro (6,2) only boots to CLI. Any ideas why this might be the case? Also, how can I get my GUI back?
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Why can't I connect to my windows 7 desktop through samba, but my laptop works fine?
I'm setting up a home server, ubuntu 10.10, and trying to get file sharing working. I've installed samba, followed a guide, and it works partially. I can log into the shares on ubuntu fine, and ubuntu ...
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What Should i do to get PyQt4 working on Ubuntu?
Installed python-qt4 and pyqt4-dev-tools packages on ubuntu
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 15:52:39)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more ...
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Moving linux partition so to be next to free space
I had a triple boot windows 7, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.10. I deleted the partition that the 11.10 was in and now I have free space on my ext4 partition. I want to use that space which is located ...
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Linux desktop slow, hard disk is lighting but cannot figure the reason from top, iostat and vmstat
I'm trying to figure out why sometimes HD lights and computer becomes very slow, but I cannot figure out the reason. Below is my iostat, vmstat and top -n 1. Any idea?
mladen@mladen-desktop:~$ iostat
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Ubuntu 10.10 Software Center not responding
I am trying to open the Ubuntu 10.10 Software Center. It's not opening. What could be the issue?
If I try to run Software Center from the terminal I get the following error:
kush@kus:~$ software-...
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What are the dangers of using an out-of-support version of Ubuntu?
For my Home Theater PC, which also does a few other basic Linux tasks, I installed MythBuntu 10.10 back when it was the newest version (some time between October 2010 and April 2011, I don't remember ...
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Installing Huawei ec156 modem on ubuntu 10.10
I have Tata Photon Data Card. It is using Huawei EC156 modem. I am using ubuntu 10.10.
It is not getting detected. I tried with network connections also. But no success. Is there any way out?
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Not able to upgrade my Ubuntu distribution
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid". I wanted to upgrade my distribution to 10.10.
When I performing th upgrade in Update Manager, I get an error message.
I have even tried to update via console as well....
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nvidia on ubuntu 10.10: switching dvi socket
i have ubuntu 10.10 x86_64 with nvidia 9800 gt and nvidia driver version 270.41.06
my video card has two DVI sockets, but i only use single monitor configuration. Now, i think the main DVI socket ...
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Network sharing on Windows 7 / Ubuntu
How do i go about sharing an internet connection on my Windows 7 machine with an Ubuntu machine?
Please note the Ubuntu machine does not have internet connection so i cannot install programs on it.
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How can I downgrade Ubuntu?
Since I upgraded Ubuntu from 10.10 to 11.04, I am facing much instability in display. Its very difficult to work with. Before upgrade it was working properly. Now even 10.10 version is giving flickers ...