[ubuntu-uk] Loosy splah screen after update to 10.10

2010-11-12 Thread Pallottini Aymeric
I have got an Acer Revo, that I have updated from ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10. After the update the splash screen is not the usual graphic one, it is a simple bit of text displaying "ubuntu 10.10 and some dots, with even some of the events of the boot process being displayed. The same when shutting

[ubuntu-uk] Playing wmv video

2010-06-03 Thread Pallottini Aymeric
Yesterday I plugged on my laptop a monitor. I set it up as a second screen, so all the desktop effect were disabled, which I think is normal. But when I tried to play a wmv video I didn't get any image just the sound. If I setup my 2 screens as clone and enable all the desktop effets then I can

[ubuntu-uk] Re : Using Gparted

2010-05-24 Thread Pallottini Aymeric
Hello Rowan, In GParted when creating the partition just make sure that you select linux-swap in the "format to" field. Once you have your new swap partion created you will need to update 2 files with the new volume UUID. You can get the new UUID by right clicking on your new swap partition i

[ubuntu-uk] Re : Re : Re : Running From USB

2010-05-19 Thread Pallottini Aymeric
You've got me curious. :-) I will give it a got tonight. Thanks,   Aymeric -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Re : Re : Running From USB

2010-05-19 Thread Pallottini Aymeric
19 May 2010 10:41, Pallottini Aymeric wrote: > Creating a live USB with the installer, can you still boot on computers with > different video cards than the system you used for the install? > There's two things to note here. The short answer is "yes". However you don'

[ubuntu-uk] Re : Running From USB

2010-05-19 Thread Pallottini Aymeric
Creating a live USB with the installer, can you still boot on computers with different video cards than the system you used for the install? To create my live USB, I used the live USB creator with persistent storage. I disable the auto login, create my user account with sudo privileges. I store

[ubuntu-uk] Re : Update from 9.10 to 10.4 problem

2010-05-05 Thread Pallottini Aymeric
I had the same problem trying to update a laptop that was setup to show only LTS release. 10.04 didn't show itself in the update manager I had to set it to show all updates. Is that a problem with the released not labelled properly or whith the update manager?   Aymeric

[ubuntu-uk] Re : Recommendations for Webcam with mic?

2009-12-18 Thread Pallottini Aymeric
I use a Logitech Quickcam 3000 for Business. just plug it in and everything works. Great!! Aymeric De : Gordon À : ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Envoyé le : Ven 18 Décembre 2009, 13 h 20 min 23 s Objet : [ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for Webcam with mic? Preferab