Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loss of scanner .....

On 20 July 2010 20:44, Barry Drake wrote: > Slightly weird behaviour. I haven't used my scanner - Brother DCP 135C > combined printer scanner - for a few weeks. Yesterday, both my netbook > and my PC refused to find it. I had to re-install both parts of the > required proprietary driver (from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutdown/Restart bug on 10.04

Thats...strange, have you filed a bug report? Dan On 20 July 2010 19:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 20/07/10 18:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > There seems to be a bug in 10.04 where the shutdown and Restart > > functions just don't work at all. > > Any one had any luck with sorting

[ubuntu-uk] Loss of scanner .....

Slightly weird behaviour. I haven't used my scanner - Brother DCP 135C combined printer scanner - for a few weeks. Yesterday, both my netbook and my PC refused to find it. I had to re-install both parts of the required proprietary driver (from Brother) to get it to work again. This was certainly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutdown/Restart bug on 10.04

On 20/07/10 18:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > There seems to be a bug in 10.04 where the shutdown and Restart > functions just don't work at all. > Any one had any luck with sorting this? > > Solved! Would you beleive there's a problem with the Open Office quickstarter? Disable that and the s

[ubuntu-uk] Meeting tomorrow night

Just a reminder, our next meeting is tomorrow night at 9PM in the #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel on freenode. You can join the meeting with a web browser at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-uk-meeting or use an IRC client like xchat or irssi. All are welcome at the meeting. The agenda for

[ubuntu-uk] Shutdown/Restart bug on 10.04

There seems to be a bug in 10.04 where the shutdown and Restart functions just don't work at all. Any one had any luck with sorting this? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

Sounds like I ought to revisit Debian installation . . . On 20/07/10 16:20, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Liam Proven wrote: Real Debian is getting pretty good these days - it's smaller and faster than Ubuntu and the default Gnome desktop is much the same. It w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Liam Proven wrote: > Real Debian is getting pretty good these days - it's smaller and > faster than Ubuntu and the default Gnome desktop is much the same. It > was just that getting firmware for my wifi card and so on was a bit of > a pain. It is vastly easier to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

On 20 July 2010 15:25, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> Me, I'm watching Crunchbang with interest, but it's not a beginners' >> distro. > > Crunchbang is awesome - I set it up for my wife who was complaining about > performance on her EEEPC 701,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lite Distro was Non-technical events?

On 20 July 2010 15:25, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Liam Proven wrote: > >> >> Me, I'm watching Crunchbang with interest, but it's not a beginners' >> distro. >> > > Crunchbang is awesome - I set it up for my wife who was complaining about > performance on her EEEP

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

Thanks - I'll have a look at Lubuntu when I get a minute :) Crunchbag looks interesting but interface needs to be for beginners when dealing with non-techies . . . On 20/07/10 14:51, Liam Proven wrote: That is what Ubuntu Lite tried to be - later rebadged U-Lite. We never got the critical ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Liam Proven wrote: > > Me, I'm watching Crunchbang with interest, but it's not a beginners' > distro. > Crunchbang is awesome - I set it up for my wife who was complaining about performance on her EEEPC 701, and have since run it on other hardware that has less t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

On 20 July 2010 11:54, pmgazz wrote: > Also takes a lot of fiddling about to set up a custom Debian desktop and I > don't have time to make a habit of it. It's a while since I reviewed all the > packaged lightweight desktops and there's been a lot of development since > then, I'll have a look at P

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

If you logout and log back in, your X server should restart (you'll drop back to the Display Manager). Best, Glen On 20/07/2010 09:32, ByteSoup wrote: Hi All, I posted this question on launchpad, I did get a post regarding a bleeding edge driver, but this is my work machine and I didnt rea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

On 20 July 2010 12:37, ByteSoup wrote: > On 20/07/10 11:17, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > > No, that's definitely an Intel integrated graphics controller so I > > suppose that removes Nvidia from the equation. > > > > s/ > > I think I narrowed it down to whats causing it. At the advice of another

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

On 20/07/10 11:17, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > No, that's definitely an Intel integrated graphics controller so I > suppose that removes Nvidia from the equation. > > s/ I think I narrowed it down to whats causing it. At the advice of another poster on launchpad, I created another user account an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Trade supplier of Linksys WRT54G+DD-WRT Routers

Hi Tim, I've enquired on the Bristol Wireless list to see if they have anything. I'll keep you updated if they come back to me. Kind regards, Matt Quoting Tim Dobson : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey, > > I know this is pushing it a bit but does anyone have any trade

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

Also takes a lot of fiddling about to set up a custom Debian desktop and I don't have time to make a habit of it. It's a while since I reviewed all the packaged lightweight desktops and there's been a lot of development since then, I'll have a look at Peppermint. There was an Ubuntu-lite versio

[ubuntu-uk] Trade supplier of Linksys WRT54G+DD-WRT Routers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I know this is pushing it a bit but does anyone have any trade suppliers of WRT54G routers running DD-WRT. Ideally, I'd prefer Linksys WRT54G-TM's with UK power supplies but really any of the WRT54G range with DD-WRT would do. Does anyone have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04

On 20 July 2010 10:19, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > On 20 July 2010 10:07, David King wrote: >> >> >> Colin Law wrote: >> > Does it work for another user on the PC?  If you have not other user >> > add one using System, Administration, Users and Groups.  A second user >> > is often useful for tes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

On 20 July 2010 11:12, ByteSoup wrote: > On 20/07/10 10:57, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > > On 20 July 2010 10:43, ByteSoup wrote: > >> On 20/07/10 09:47, Simon Greenwood wrote: >> > >> > I have a similar problem with 64-bit (both 9.10 and 10.04) on a Dell >> > XPS M1330. Flash and java applicat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

On 20/07/10 10:57, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 20 July 2010 10:43, ByteSoup > wrote: On 20/07/10 09:47, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > I have a similar problem with 64-bit (both 9.10 and 10.04) on a Dell > XPS M1330. Flash and java applications, primarily

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

On 20 July 2010 10:43, ByteSoup wrote: > On 20/07/10 09:47, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > > I have a similar problem with 64-bit (both 9.10 and 10.04) on a Dell > > XPS M1330. Flash and java applications, primarily in web browsers, > > cause the CPU usage to spin up to 100%. It even started happen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

On 20/07/10 09:47, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > I have a similar problem with 64-bit (both 9.10 and 10.04) on a Dell > XPS M1330. Flash and java applications, primarily in web browsers, > cause the CPU usage to spin up to 100%. It even started happening with > Thunderbird 3. My solution was to hav

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04

On 20 July 2010 10:07, David King wrote: > > > Colin Law wrote: > > Does it work for another user on the PC? If you have not other user > > add one using System, Administration, Users and Groups. A second user > > is often useful for testing. > > > > Colin > > > > > > > Although my Ubuntu 9.04

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04

Colin Law wrote: > Does it work for another user on the PC? If you have not other user > add one using System, Administration, Users and Groups. A second user > is often useful for testing. > > Colin > > > Although my Ubuntu 9.04 has been working okay with accessing the Internet recently, t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

Mark, On 20/07/10 09:32, ByteSoup wrote: > I posted this question on launchpad, I did get a post regarding a > bleeding edge driver, but this is my work machine and I didnt really > want to try that unless as a last resort. What I wanted to know is how > to effectively reset the xserver and resta

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

On 20 July 2010 09:32, ByteSoup wrote: > Hi All, > > I posted this question on launchpad, I did get a post regarding a bleeding > edge driver, but this is my work machine and I didnt really want to try that > unless as a last resort. What I wanted to know is how to effectively reset > the xserve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

On 20/07/10 09:32, ByteSoup wrote: > Hi All, > > I posted this question on launchpad, I did get a post regarding a > bleeding edge driver, but this is my work machine and I didnt really > want to try that unless as a last resort. What I wanted to know is how > to effectively reset the xserver and r

[ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

Hi All, I posted this question on launchpad, I did get a post regarding a bleeding edge driver, but this is my work machine and I didnt really want to try that unless as a last resort. What I wanted to know is how to effectively reset the xserver and restart it without having to resort to reb