Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia and lucid

Tim and John, Thanks! I've passed this on to my friend. cheers, Bruce -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

Ohhh, and do not forget sudo!! On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Case wrote: > You got it right, there just doesnt want to be a 1 there, and it does not > want to be mounted: > > /dev/sdb :) > > #Warning: IT WILL WIPE THE WHOLE DRIVE!!# > > > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Colin Law wro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

You got it right, there just doesnt want to be a 1 there, and it does not want to be mounted: /dev/sdb :) #Warning: IT WILL WIPE THE WHOLE DRIVE!!# On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 23 May 2010 21:27, Kris Douglas wrote: > > On 23 May 2010 21:22, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

On 23 May 2010 21:27, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 23 May 2010 21:22, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: >>... >> Problem 1: the USB sticks: >> - >> The 8 GB stick has no apparent fault as all the files on it can be seen >> OK. >> The 4 GB stick starts off as 4GB but formatting brings thi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

On 23 May 2010 21:22, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > On 20 May at 13:48, Anton Piatek wrote: > >> On 19 May 2010 22:46, Daniel Case wrote: >> > A tutorial i made is here for your referance, it should work :) >> . >> >> If you are in a hurry, go to http://www.stephenford.org/joggler/ where >> a wge

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

On 20 May at 13:48, Anton Piatek wrote: > On 19 May 2010 22:46, Daniel Case wrote: > > A tutorial i made is here for your referance, it should work :) > . > > If you are in a hurry, go to http://www.stephenford.org/joggler/ where > a wget command will get you a 4GB usb image, and a dd comma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia and lucid

On 22 May 2010 22:35, Bruce Durling > wrote: / Hi, />/ />/ I have a friend running Lucid with nvidia and he is having trouble />/ with the video drivers// / Hello Bruce, Have you tried running nvidia-xconfig from the command line? Are yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was. > > However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could > > bring into use, merging it with the volume that is conf

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:32 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > > On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley > > wrote: > > > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was. > > > However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was. > > However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could > > bring into use, merging it with the volume that is conf

[ubuntu-uk] Gnome Shell

I have been testing the Gnome Shell in lucid for the past few days and I have to say I love it! The interface is slick, smart and while the compositing manager (clutter) is not as feature rich as Compiz, its fast and enabled from the off. I have been adding to the Ubuntu Wiki about the Gnome Shel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:50:00 Nigel Verity wrote: > Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any OS other than Windows > will invalidate the hardware guarantee. I've run Ubuntu on Dell since 5.04. I've called for support 5 times across 5 laptops - once for a bad fan, and 4 times for d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was. However, > even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could bring into > use, merging it with the volume that is configured for user files (now > about two-thirds full), as opposed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 02:06 +0100, Mary Mooney wrote: > Why don't you call LE? In fact, I did email them. I have another query for them, about the way they have configured the Lenovo N500: While I was using Gparted to format the external hard disk, I noticed a block of memory on the internal hard