Re: [ubuntu-uk] Not a good press

2009-11-02 Thread Sean Miller
Maybe it is time to ask the question again -- is the 6-month cycle too ambitious? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Not a good press

2009-11-02 Thread mac
You'll probably have seen this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/ Not the press we'd have hoped for - and from a usually friendly source. I must say, I, too, had a bit of a problem with an upgrade from 9.04 (just a failure of the automatic restart, and, on manua

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic dual monitor problems...

2009-11-02 Thread Luke-Jennings
Hi, Sorry for the late reply but I have the 185 driver installed on my laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 256MB graphics card. I use disper as it is a quick means of changing screen outputs. http://willem.engen.nl/projects/disper/ My dual screen set-up works nicely. I did accidentally install t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Dell Mini 10

2009-11-02 Thread Ian Pascoe
Thanks to all who replied. Looks like the Atom 2xx series is going to be the option. Again thanks. Ian -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of Tony Pursell Sent: 01 November 2009 16:49 To: npe...@gmail.com; UK U

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic dual monitor problems...

2009-11-02 Thread Timothy Rittman
Hi All, If anyone ran in to the same problems with dual monitors in karmic that I had, ie they didn't work, rolling back to the nvidia-173 driver (System>Administration>Hardware devices) fixed it. All the best, Tim -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vodafone Topup and Go Mobile Broadband dongle on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-11-02 Thread Rob Beard
mac wrote: > mac wrote: > >> To top up without Windows... >> > > Mmm.. I meant also to say that you only need to do this once, to > register your modem. After that, you can top up via the site, and read > your remaining allowance there. > > mac > Ahh that's even better :-) Rob --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vodafone Topup and Go Mobile Broadband dongle on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-11-02 Thread Rob Beard
mac wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > >> I'll cc it to the Ubuntu UK list and maybe someone else might be able to >> fill in the gaps. >> > > > Andrew / Rob >>> Just to confirm, and add some details: > > The Hauwei modems are detected correctly since Jaunty, and Network > Manager as full suppor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vodafone Topup and Go Mobile Broadband dongle on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 02/11/09 15:50, mac wrote: > mac wrote: >> To top up without Windows... Of course you could try installing Wader which supports SMS over the Dongle :-) http://wader-project.org/ HTH Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vodafone Topup and Go Mobile Broadband dongle on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-11-02 Thread mac
mac wrote: > To top up without Windows... Mmm.. I meant also to say that you only need to do this once, to register your modem. After that, you can top up via the site, and read your remaining allowance there. mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vodafone Topup and Go Mobile Broadband dongle on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-11-02 Thread mac
Rob Beard wrote: > I'll cc it to the Ubuntu UK list and maybe someone else might be able to > fill in the gaps. Andrew / Rob >>> Just to confirm, and add some details: The Hauwei modems are detected correctly since Jaunty, and Network Manager as full support for Mobile Broadband. The modems ap

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vodafone Topup and Go Mobile Broadband dongle on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-11-02 Thread Rob Beard
Andrew Robinson wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I found your post on the ubuntu.com lists about your success with > using the Vodafone PAYG broadband dongle in linux. > Thank you so much for your post - I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.04 > and looking for a broadband PAYG dongle - your post gives me a fair > d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openshot video editing software Karmic Koala

2009-11-02 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 21:11 +, Tim Dobson wrote: > Simon Osborne wrote: > > Yes. It upgrades libavcodec to a version which is incompatible with > > gstreamer and VLC, along with other things. It can be fixed by > > forcing a downgrade on libavcodec to the version supplied with > > Karmic. >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openshot video editing software Karmic Koala

2009-11-02 Thread David King
I have installed the .deb for Openshot in Ubuntu 9.04 and it worked okay without messing anything else up. So the .deb seems to be safe even if the PPA is not. Although I have not tried it in Ubuntu 9.10 yet (I have installed it as a virtual machine in VirtualBox for testing purposes before I c