Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backing Up Ubuntu

2009-01-07 Thread Jai Harrison
Thanks. I'll do just that. 2009/1/7 Alan Pope : > 2009/1/7 Jai Harrison : >> There's a small problem with that. Namely that my external HDD is >> often not connected to my laptop so automated (as oppose to manual) >> backups will most likely fail. Is there something similar but based >> around man

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backing Up Ubuntu

2009-01-07 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/7 Jai Harrison : > There's a small problem with that. Namely that my external HDD is > often not connected to my laptop so automated (as oppose to manual) > backups will most likely fail. Is there something similar but based > around manual backups? Also, do tarballs preserve permissions wer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backing Up Ubuntu

2009-01-07 Thread Jai Harrison
There's a small problem with that. Namely that my external HDD is often not connected to my laptop so automated (as oppose to manual) backups will most likely fail. Is there something similar but based around manual backups? Also, do tarballs preserve permissions were I ever to need to restore it?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backing Up Ubuntu

2009-01-07 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/7 Jai Harrison : > I have an external 1 terabyte HDD and would like to back up my Ubuntu > system onto it for easy restoration later if I accidentally wipe the > internal drive or it fails. Unfortunately my external HDD is using > NTFS format (because I would like to be able to allow Windows

[ubuntu-uk] Backing Up Ubuntu

2009-01-07 Thread Jai Harrison
Hey, I have an external 1 terabyte HDD and would like to back up my Ubuntu system onto it for easy restoration later if I accidentally wipe the internal drive or it fails. Unfortunately my external HDD is using NTFS format (because I would like to be able to allow Windows users to access the drive

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread David King
You may well be right. I downloaded Flashplayer 10, however, it was not properly installed because version 9 was still installed via Synaptic, so I uninstalled 9 and then Firefox was using 10.0.21. So far the sound is okay. David Chris Coulson wrote: > 2009/1/7 Sean Miller mailto:s...@seanmil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 7 Jan, "Sean Miller" wrote: > I suspect Firefox may be your issue. > > I sometimes find that if I've done anything involving sound in Firefox > then no other applications will get access to the sound. My 8,10 Ubuntu tells me, after login, that 'Sound will be disconnected'. It cont

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Bruce Durling
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Oliver Marks wrote: > Not sure if this will help, but flash player uses alsa by default, but > if you install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound it will try and output > thought esound or oss, which might help but you would have to try, it > falls back to also if it fa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Oliver Marks
Not sure if this will help, but flash player uses alsa by default, but if you install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound it will try and output thought esound or oss, which might help but you would have to try, it falls back to also if it fails anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Sutton
Bruce Durling wrote: > I'd just like to me too on this. I'm running a Dell Inspiron 1420 that > came with Ubuntu and I'm running 32bit 8.10 now. > > Things seem better but still flaky. I should get to the bottom of it > one day really. > > I have a desktop that runs Mythbuntu 8.10 and that doens't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Sean Miller
Can somebody post instructions on setting up Alsa, as I suspect the sound problems are the reason for memory leaks I'm getting in Pidgin and Firefox. Is it just a case of installing it from apt-get or are there other things we have to do? Thanks, Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Bruce Durling
I'd just like to me too on this. I'm running a Dell Inspiron 1420 that came with Ubuntu and I'm running 32bit 8.10 now. Things seem better but still flaky. I should get to the bottom of it one day really. I have a desktop that runs Mythbuntu 8.10 and that doens't seem to have much in the way of s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Sutton
David King wrote: > I keep losing the sound on my Ubuntu 8.04.1 (64-bit) installation. I can > play video and audio files okay, but then a bit later I cannot get any > sound at all. The only clue is that if I try to open a video file in > Xine, it says that the audio is device is unavailable as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/1/7 Sean Miller > I suspect Firefox may be your issue. > > I sometimes find that if I've done anything involving sound in Firefox > then no other applications will get access to the sound. > > Sean > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > ht

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Sean Miller
I suspect Firefox may be your issue. I sometimes find that if I've done anything involving sound in Firefox then no other applications will get access to the sound. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/