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Col posted:Confirming this. Go to System -> Restricted Drivers Management and you should have the option to automatically enable the proprietory nVidia drivers from there. I tried this. I try to click enable and it tells me "The software source for the package nvidia-glx-new" is not enabled. Then it does nothing. quote:etc/init.d/gdm stop
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Sabotaged posted:What's a lightweight login manager I can configure to show login names, and require no password? I setup gdm on my parents computer, but it's too slow. XDM. My old Uni used to use it on the thin clients.
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Scaevolus posted:I think sparse file support depends on the filesystem, but TrueCrypt might be useful. Hey, that's excellent. Thank you! I had to download the truecrypt-installer for Debian though, since they have strange licensing for truecrypt, but it was quite easy to use.
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I'm having trouble getting a wusb11 ver 2.6 usb wireless adapter to work right in 64-bit ubuntu. I can't find the driver for it or anything else that would make it work anywhere. Any ideas besides reinstalling with 32-bit?
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whats the simplest way of finding an mp3 files bitrate on the commandline?
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I guess I'll ask this here. Is there a way to get Firefox 3's tabs to behave the way tabs in Firefox 2 and prior did? That is, is there a way to make it so when I middle click a folder of bookmarks, it closes all the other ones and opens the new ones in their place, rather than just opening the new tabs in addition to the old ones? I've tried a few settings in about:config, but none of them have done what I'm looking for.
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Feb 24, 2008 02:34
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DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:whats the simplest way of finding an mp3 files bitrate on the commandline? code:
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DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:whats the simplest way of finding an mp3 files bitrate on the commandline?
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thanks guys, seems that both are hit and miss, particularly with VBR bitrates (mpg321 will return the bitrate detected in blockN and file won't return anything). tempted to try perl.
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DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:thanks guys, seems that both are hit and miss, particularly with VBR bitrates (mpg321 will return the bitrate detected in blockN and file won't return anything).
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Lovely. Ubuntu 7.10 does everything right except sound on my laptop. Sound used to work but wireless didn't, now it's the other way round. Fedora 8 does sound but no wireless. Ditto with openSUSE. Wee...
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Feb 24, 2008 23:53
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ZeeBoi posted:Lovely. Ubuntu 7.10 does everything right except sound on my laptop. Sound used to work but wireless didn't, now it's the other way round. If you're not averse to living on the bleeding edge, you could give Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 5 a try. I'm personally running it right now and it works fine for me. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-5/
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Ok, I've got the most retarded UPS alive, and no money to replace it. So I've now got to create the most convoluted shutdown system. Pretty much, I run a Linux server with VMware Server on it, and it can't talk to my UPS. But not through lack of trying. However, the Win2k3 guest OS can talk to it. So I've got the UPS software installed and it's all working. I know how to issue commands to a remote server via ssh (Putty and it's ilk) however, for the sake of security, I don't want to use my root account. So, I created a new account "remshut" and configured ssh so it can log in remotely using a key. How do I setup sudo so that the user "remshut" can run the command shutdown -h now without it asking for a password? Putting "remshut ALL= NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -h now" into /etc/sudoers does sweet gently caress and all. x1o fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Feb 25, 2008 |
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TheHeadSage posted:Ok, I've got the most retarded UPS alive, and no money to replace it. So I've now got to create the most convoluted shutdown system. Maybe the version on sudo in your linux is different, but When i did something like this I had to have the hostname of the server in that line as well. (Of course this was sudo on a Sun system.) Take a look at the man pages.... But I'd guess the syntax of that line is just wrong.
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ZeeBoi posted:Lovely. Ubuntu 7.10 does everything right except sound on my laptop. Sound used to work but wireless didn't, now it's the other way round. I just fixed three sound issues, only one of which was mine, swing by #shsc later on today (14:00 - 15:00) for a hand. Since it worked before, there's a good chance it's a driver conflict or some retarded poo poo like that. My old laptop wouldn't load the right sound modules unless I blacklisted the modem driver.
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ZeeBoi posted:Lovely. Ubuntu 7.10 does everything right except sound on my laptop. Sound used to work but wireless didn't, now it's the other way round. Did you update the kernel headers (for 2.6.22-14-generic)? The latest updates didn't properly depmod. If you updated, run sudo depmod and restart. Mysterious Aftertaste fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Feb 25, 2008 |
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I posted earlier that I'm building a little RAID NAS machine and I've ordered the parts. My plan is to use ubuntu just since I'm comfortable with it, and my questions now primarily concern permissions. It seems easy enough to put all the users in a group and give the group permissions to a large shared folder, and then each user having their own folder as well. Even though none of the accounts will ever be logged in locally they'll still have home folders. Since everyone in the group will have write access to the shared folder, I need to make sure someone on a windows machine (in particular) can't accidentally delete everything. So I'm looking at three things here: A) Is there a way using samba and the 'sticky bit' to make it so NO-ONE (even the original owner, preferably) can delete files from a group shared folder. If we have to log into a third 'super' account (even VNC'ing to the machine) to delete files that is OK. Though this is the least favorable option. B) Does the trash/undelete system in ubuntu (or any similar systems) work if a file is deleted via someone connected to the samba server? Sounds like this can be done with vfs_recycle for vfs, but I'm not real familiar with vfs stuff. C) Have the system set a volume shadow copy point every day, and release the one that's 2-3 days old automatically. This seems very fire & forget which I like. If the shadow volume was the entire system drive I could in theory recover from a trashed OS too. RAID5 should protect me from hardware failure, now I need to find a good strategy for user failure.
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I have a LG L222WT 16:10 1680x1050 widescreen monitor I'm having trouble getting to display properly in Ubuntu. When windows are "fullscreen" in 1680x1050, they run off the side of the monitor in both horizontal directions, while fitting properly vertically. Other resolutions display fine, though distorted since they are not native. Any ideas?
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fatcat posted:If you're not averse to living on the bleeding edge, you could give Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 5 a try. I'm personally running it right now and it works fine for me.
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I've NEVER worked with Linux before, and this problem has me really confused. Any help would be much appreciated. Here's the problem: Brand new RHEL 5 install on a Dell PE2950 server. I have installed all updates. It has 2 NIC cards. Currently we're only using one. When I boot the server, the active NIC card stops working and I can't get on the net through it. If I deactivate it, swap the cable to the other one, and activate that one, it will work. This works with both DHCP and static IP addresses for either card. What I've noticed is when I go to the Network Config window, and the Hardware tab... Under Description, both cards have their full hardware label up, and then there is this other entry called bnx2, taking over one of the devices. So it looks like this: Description | Type | Device | Status Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II... | Ethernet | eth1 | OK Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II... | Ethernet | peth0 | OK bnx2 | Ethernet | eth0 | configured If I were to deactivate eth0, switch the network cable, and activate eth1, then I will regain net connectivity, but upon reboot, the device type of eth1 will become peth1, with bnx2 taking over eth1, and connectivity is lost again. And of course I'm not configuring anything to do with bnx2, so I don't know where that status description is coming from. What the heck is going on here? I'm really confused by this.
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Khatib: It look like Linux is confused about which of your cards should be eth0 and which should be eth1 Try reading this for solutions: http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf
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Azerban posted:I have a LG L222WT 16:10 1680x1050 widescreen monitor I'm having trouble getting to display properly in Ubuntu. When windows are "fullscreen" in 1680x1050, they run off the side of the monitor in both horizontal directions, while fitting properly vertically. Other resolutions display fine, though distorted since they are not native. Any chance you can pastebin your "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"? I want to check your Monitor section. LGs have always had issues with detection on my machines. Let me know your cards model also.
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I need some help with regular expression syntax in grep. I need to match a single quote, but I am having trouble escaping the character. When I try "grep 'foo\'' *, I get an error for unmatched '. What is the correct way to do this?
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Try egrep. That's the regex version, I think.
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Toiletbrush posted:Try egrep. That's the regex version, I think. Same result. I have used regular expressions with standard grep many times, but I've never had to match that particular character. This is under HPUX w/ ksh if it makes a difference; no bash available on that server. Fake edit: Which I guess makes this not really a linux question, sorry about that. Close enough for standard tools?
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stubblyhead posted:Same result. I have used regular expressions with standard grep many times, but I've never had to match that particular character. This is under HPUX w/ ksh if it makes a difference; no bash available on that server. Fake edit: Which I guess makes this not really a linux question, sorry about that. Close enough for standard tools? It's your shell, not grep, that's getting upset. Protect the apostrophe and backslash from the shell.
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covener posted:It's your shell, not grep, that's getting upset. Protect the apostrophe and backslash from the shell. Ok, getting somewhere. Great. I'm a little confused by what you mean though, the backslash isn't going to protect the apostrophe? For instance say I want to match foo', I can't use "grep 'foo\\'' *" to find it?
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stubblyhead posted:Ok, getting somewhere. Great. I'm a little confused by what you mean though, the backslash isn't going to protect the apostrophe? For instance say I want to match foo', I can't use "grep 'foo\\'' *" to find it? I misread as ending in a double quote; the backslash isn't an escape character inside single quotes, because the single quotes have already zapped all the special meaning of anything inside.
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covener posted:I misread as ending in a double quote; the backslash isn't an escape character inside single quotes, because the single quotes have already zapped all the special meaning of anything inside. I understand, I had to look at it a couple times myself to be sure I hadn't mistyped it. So what if I need to match a single quote in my pattern? Do I need to use something other than ' ' to delimit my regex? If so, what?
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Are there any drivers for the Creative X-Fi sound card? Or any way that I can get some sound in Linux? I'm dual booting with Ubuntu and can't get sound to work, and read that the X-Fi cards are closed source, and that they don't have ALSA support.
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stubblyhead posted:I understand, I had to look at it a couple times myself to be sure I hadn't mistyped it. So what if I need to match a single quote in my pattern? Do I need to use something other than ' ' to delimit my regex? If so, what? double-quotes if it has spaces ($IFS), otherwise nothing. Outter quotes just tell the shell what goes in the positional arguments for the program you're telling it to run.
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If you want to escape a single quote in a single quote escaped string, just close the quotes, put a backslash-escaped single quote and reopen it. grep 'foo="bar'\''s baz"'
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Ah, thank you both for the advice. Not enclosing my regex and breaking it up both worked fine. I somehow had the notion that not enclosing the pattern in quotes treated it as plain text and that in order to use regular expressions you had to use the quotes. Thanks for setting me straight.
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usualhandle posted:I just fixed three sound issues, only one of which was mine, swing by #shsc later on today (14:00 - 15:00) for a hand. Yeah, I figure the modem driver was an issue. I don't have Ubuntu running any more, it's openSUSE now. But I'll give Ubuntu a try again.
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I had some problems with uninstalling Ubuntu last week, so I ended up reinstalling it. Now that I have Gentoo up and running (a bad stick of RAM was causing seg faults in pretty much every compile that took longer than two minutes) I want to again get rid of Ubuntu. Problem is, Ubuntu overwrote the MBR, which wouldn't be a problem since I want to have the option to boot into Windows or Gentoo, but I don't know how to change it so GRUB will look in the Gentoo partition for the configuration file. I don't want to spend another couple hours messing with the bootloader. It works now, I just want to move the configuration to another partition. Can anyone help me with this?
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MeramJert posted:I had some problems with uninstalling Ubuntu last week, so I ended up reinstalling it. Now that I have Gentoo up and running (a bad stick of RAM was causing seg faults in pretty much every compile that took longer than two minutes) I want to again get rid of Ubuntu. Problem is, Ubuntu overwrote the MBR, which wouldn't be a problem since I want to have the option to boot into Windows or Gentoo, but I don't know how to change it so GRUB will look in the Gentoo partition for the configuration file. I don't want to spend another couple hours messing with the bootloader. It works now, I just want to move the configuration to another partition. Can anyone help me with this?
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Well, my Gentoo installation is on /dev/hdb, but right now grub is running on /dev/hda, and I want to keep it that way. Is this potentially a problem? (I'm sure this is a very simple problem. I'm just very new to linux)
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ZeeBoi posted:I don't have Ubuntu running any more, it's openSUSE now. But I'll give Ubuntu a try again.
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usualhandle posted:Don't do it unless there's something to gain. If you do decide to try something weird again though, you are more than welcome to solicit IRC help from me. Help would definitely be appreciated! 
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