[ubuntu-uk] Graphics card ?

2011-04-15 Thread Ted Wager
I have been running ubuntu Natty with Unity and with Gnome3 also Fedora with Gnome3 on my testbox since their inception and all have run with very few faults..I now find that Fedora will not boot to a graphics screen and Ubuntu Unity has the side bar but no apps logos...The apps are there as if I r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug

2011-04-15 Thread Chris Wilson
It might be worth directing the user to askubuntu.com or ubuntuforums.org to see if there's any help to be got there. Also, when you're triaging a bug report, when you assign the upstream project to the report, it's best to follow the link provided to the upstream tracker and report the bug there

[ubuntu-uk] Bug

2011-04-15 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi folks, I've been trying to help a user through the Ubuntu Questions area and think he might have encountered a bug. I've linked the question to a bug report but I'm not sure if I've assigned the bug to the correct project (as dpkg is apparently dealt with upstream) If anyone is interested in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 15 Apr at 12:37, Alan Bell wrote: > On 15/04/11 12:31, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > > On 14 Apr at 21:25, Kate Stewart wrote: > > > > Has anyone else had this problem? > > > I think those will be the instructions when it is released. If I had quoted the whole of Kate Stewart's release, you wo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/04/11 12:31, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: On 14 Apr at 21:25, Kate Stewart wrote: 2. If you are upgrading from 10.10: 1. Open the Update Manager application from the System → Administration menu. 2. In Update Manager, click the Settings... button, and enter your passwor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 14 Apr at 21:25, Kate Stewart wrote: > The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 11.04 > Beta 2. > To upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 from Ubuntu 10.10, follow these > instructions: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NattyUpgrades On that site there are these instr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-15 Thread Sean Miller
On 15 April 2011 10:29, James Tait wrote: > Some time, somewhere, someone has a spark of an idea. It might seem > ridiculous at the time, but things change, and the simple act of sharing > the idea and getting other minds thinking about it can be enough to make > it happen. > I suppose so... bu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-15 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/04/11 21:52, Sean Miller wrote: [snip!] > Why are we even having this discussion? Because 20 years ago, the idea that billions of people around the world would be connected by a robust, resilient network was unimaginable. 15 years ago, the ver

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Please help with research ...

2011-04-15 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 23:23 +0100, Andres wrote: > Good point. Tested one of my cds (32bit) on my 64bit dell at work and > it went mental. i'm not a linux virgin but i think i should label the > cds i give away as 32 bit or 64bit You need to report that as a bug. The 32 bit version is expected t