No option to "save history as" in Gnomes terminal

2009-03-19 Thread Nigel Henry
In KDE's Konsole, there is an option to "save history as", but that option does not exist in Gnomes terminal. I have a directory in my /home/user directory named History-files, and whenever I do an update, I save the history from KDE's Konsole, suitably datestamped to this directory. Gnomes te

Re: can't build modules on 2.6.28 jaunty

2009-02-13 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 13 February 2009 16:24, Paul S wrote: > I've been running jaunty for a couple months and been unable to build > the alsa driver module. I also tried buiding it from alsa-project source > package and have the same failure. I had filed a bug against > alsa-source, but am wondering if it's

Re: Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid

2009-02-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 08 February 2009 17:06, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 06:23:40PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I have vlc installed on both my Ubuntu, and Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 > > installs, but vlc will not play dvd's. It finds the optical drive ok, and > >

Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid

2009-02-03 Thread Nigel Henry
I have vlc installed on both my Ubuntu, and Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 installs, but vlc will not play dvd's. It finds the optical drive ok, and I get the menu up for the dvd, but only about a half second of sound, and video play, then it stalls. If I press on play the movie, again I get about a half

Re: Problem with Grub being installed in MBR as default (GG)

2008-04-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 21:09, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 20:53 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 April 2008 19:35, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 19:23 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > The request I have is, is

Re: Problem with Grub being installed in MBR as default (GG)

2008-04-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 19:35, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 19:23 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > The request I have is, is it possible to include options as to where the > > bootloader is going to be installed in Gutsy Gibbons installer program, > > as

Problem with Grub being installed in MBR as default (GG)

2008-04-01 Thread Nigel Henry
I've just installed Gutsy Gibbon on a harddrive with 4 distros on it. The install went ok, and was able to select which partitions I wanted to use to install Gutsy Gibbon on, but after that the install went into auto mode, and post install I find that Gutsy Gibbons Grub has been installed in the