It’s always the same problem with upgrade, cause deep changes it is recommend to make a clean fresh setup of your PC with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. Steps: – backup Home files to a USB Disk / Stick without hidden folders!! – format PC with Ubuntu Install Disk and make a fresh setup (Professionals take alternate […]
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Kiosk Mode
If you run your PC as Family PC for Kids or Public PC you have to make some changes: Step: – Setup Ubuntu 10.04 with alternate Disk! – select XDM as Login Manager by default!! – go /etc/init folder as root – edit control-alt-delete.conf and disable reboot without login – go /etc/acpi make chmod 000 […]
USB external Harddisk hangs PC (1TB Western Digital Drive WDBAAU0010HBK )
Environment: Western Digital WDBAAU0010HBK at Linux-PC, if the User use a Linux PC the external Drive is spin / powered down after some time, cause the Case of WDBAAU0010HBK is made to save energy. Bugfix: Send the drive back to reseller! an order Fujitsu Storagebird 1TB – good big Pluggers (USB A+B , no bad […]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx AMD64 Nvidia 195 Current freeze hang randomly
System: AMD Phenom X4 Geforce 7900 GTS or 8400GS Lucid Lynx AMD64 Problem: The current driver fails on some Systems with default kernel 2.6.32 Solution: – go http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/ – download kernel images for your System and headers into a folder named kernel – go into folder kernel with #cd kernel – install pakets with #sudo […]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Videocall VoIP Webcam Chat
For using Video Chat over different continents you need under Ubuntu 10.04 following steps: – buy a older used good Webcam Logitech Fusion (UVC-Driver-Webcam) – go to Skype Homepage install Skype Beta for 8.10 (working on 10.04 too) – plugin Webcam – install skype-deb paket #sudo apt-get install skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb – login to skype if you […]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx disable hide REBOOT SHUTDOWN STANDBY SUSPEND GNOME SYSTEM MENU SECURE KIOSK MODE
Problem: If you install ubuntu 10.04 Desktop by default every user can shutdown,reboot,hibernate or standby a PC If you want to disable this make: – install gdm2conf from the ppa channel to customize hide System Menu at Login GDM2 Manager – create custom Gnome System Menu Policy against User shutdown,reboot,hibernate or standby. Steps: create new […]
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04: Nautilus hangs freeze Desktop at FTP SFTP mount
System: i386 Lucid Lynx default setup Problem: If you try to mount a local ftp share Nautilus stops working by loading files of a folder like 100 Images Solution: Remove Samba-Common and Nautilus-share with #sudo aptitude remove nautilus-share samba-commone –purge try now ftp mount..this bug is reported and unsolved
FreeBSD 8.0: Perl Webmin Bug
System FreeBSD 8.0 R3 AMD64 Webmin 1.510 Perl 5.8.9 Webmin-Log: symbol “sdbm_open” – do portupgrade -f webmin – do portupgrade -f perl – do perl-after-upgrade -f (to update all deps of Perl)
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Review Workstation: Phenom X6 1090T
Today i got new parts for my workstation: – Phenom X6 1090T – Asus M4N75TD AM3 – 8GB RAM 1333Mhz from Kingston 4x 2GB Kingston HyperX – Graphic Card Nvidia 8400GS Low Noise (fanless) runs well as low noise workstation! tests following… Board works on: – FreeBSD 8.0 (nforce 750) – Debian Lenny 5.0 AMD64 […]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: Change Image Location Path of Screensaver Slideshow – Xscreensaver
If you want to use a other Path for xscreensaver Slideshow then create as user file called #nano .xscreensaver and insert: imageDirectory: /home/username/wallpapers
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: JWM Window Manager hangs on Login
Bug: If you want to use JWM as fast Window Manager instead of Gnome you got a little Bug, after Login at GDM Login Manager the JWM Desktop seems to hang. Background: missing deps of menu and menu-xdg Solution: #sudo aptitude install menu menu-xdg #sudo update-menus #sudo service gdm restart if you miss some installed […]
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