Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:20:37PM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: >BTW: Since NetworkManager-0.7 (about a year ago), it has distribution > specific plugins to prevent it from messing with network interfaces > that appear in the distribution legacy config files. I've tested >

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Oron Peled
On 20.05.2009 Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Boaz Rymland wrote: > > On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:15 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > >> > >> 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot > >> set the screen resolution to high enough. > >> > >> Does anyone kn

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Yuval Hager
On Wednesday 20 May 2009, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > On May 20, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I > > change the configuration via the > > GUI. So how can I reconfigure the X ? > > I've had good and bad luck configuring X v

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Boaz Rymland wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:15 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> >> 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot >> set the screen resolution to high enough. >> >> Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change w

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:15 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot > set the screen resolution to high enough. > > Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I > change the configuration via the > GUI. So how can I

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 20, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I change the configuration via the GUI. So how can I reconfigure the X ? I've had good and bad luck configuring X via editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf It either works or the whole syst

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Erez D
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > 2) Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does not do anything (should restart X) > either use alt-sysrq-k instead of ctl-alt-bksp or add to xorg.conf: Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "false" EndSection erez. ___

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Gabor, On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:33:15AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > 2) Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does not do anything (should restart X) This is a new (mis)feature of X11. See http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/16916.html baruch -- ~. .~ Tk Ope

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Gabor Szabo
Let me also complain :-) After upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04: 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot set the screen resolution to high enough. Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I change the configuration via the GUI. So how can I reconfigu

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Erez D
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote: > geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde world. >> I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing Ubuntu have the >> same problem, 3 days after they were booted, but ones

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread Boaz Rymland
geoffrey mendelson wrote: After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde world. I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing Ubuntu have the same problem, 3 days after they were booted, but ones running other operating systems don't. I had a similar issue tha

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
x27;t stop me from giving Write Read to all Hard Disk Partitions. Moshe --- On Tue, 19/5/09, Erez D wrote: From: Erez D Subject: ubuntu is starting to annoy me To: "linux-il" Date: Tuesday, 19 May, 2009, 12:22 PM hi i bought a new hardware (dvb-s2 sat card) that needs kernel at least

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread Erez D
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 19, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Erez D wrote: > > >> i didn't even mension the other problems i had >> sound stopped working. >> >> X is not listening to TCP connections. There is no config option to enabl

ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread Erez D
hi i bought a new hardware (dvb-s2 sat card) that needs kernel at least 2.6.28 so i thought my best solution was to upgrade my ubuntu to jaunty after upgrading, i find out that some of my automatic scripts didn't do their jobs anymore after spending a lot of time, i found out that 'screen' doesn

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 19, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Erez D wrote: i didn't even mension the other problems i had sound stopped working. X is not listening to TCP connections. There is no config option to enable it - to change that i had to edit a ubuntu script. this script is overridden on update ... That's

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread Erez D
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:31 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 19, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Erez D wrote: > > hi >> >> too much of ubuntu needs human interventions, >> some configurations are only possible under interactive gui >> >> is ubuntu getting more and mor

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 19, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Erez D wrote: hi too much of ubuntu needs human interventions, some configurations are only possible under interactive gui is ubuntu getting more and more similiar to microsoft ? Wait. things that make me unhappy with Ubuntu: (9.04) My DVD drive stopped read