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Sound card issue

peter_budo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:21:41 GMT

I have dual boot system with Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu 9.10 on same HDD. There is and irritating issue with Creative Audigy SE where the card will work under one OS, but not on other (so either it work with XP and not Ubuntu, or vice-versa).
Any suggestions?

Linux setup problem

Durrah — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:41:13 GMT

Hello everybody.
I have a SIS-based dtk MiBook S52 laptop (SIS chipset, SIS ethernet, SIS vga ...)
I have tried to setup linux on it, but the installer hung up and I can't determine the problem
the distribution I tried are:
1- RedHat
2- open SUSE 10.2
3- Fedora 10
4- Ubuntu 8 live cd
but neither of these dist.. does work
I cannot determine the problem but I noticed the following in Fedora 10:
/tmp as ramfs : and at this point the installer stops
ubuntu live cd:
the progressbar reaches the half then it stops for ever.

please if someone can help me in this problem.
sorry for my bad English.
thanks for any help

Linux setup problem

Durrah — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:40:58 GMT

CONCEPT OF PARTITION IN LINUX+CENTos+FEDORA

rashid47010 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:36:49 GMT

I installed the centOS 5.2 on 80GB harddisk.
/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2

Device Boot Start end Blocks id system
/dev/hda1 * 1 15 83 linux
/dev/hda2 16 9729 8e linux LVM

DO I HAVE SOME REMAINING SPACE.......?

and If I want to do further partitions in existing then how......?

here their is any concept of primary and secondary(logical) partitions.........?

kindly help to understand this concept and if there is any relevant video then its very helpful for me...........

Kind regards,

Just how good is a SGI Workstation

n.cramp — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:26:59 GMT

Sorry to bother everyone with this, but i could do with a little impartial advice before conisdering a purchase.

Im very much into real-time graphics using OpenGL, specifically to create 'Virtual Heitage' applications. These applications feature models and environments with close to millions of polygons. At the moment i use my laptop and a rather slow desktop for testing which, as you can imagine, is far from ideal. I've been eyeing up these SGI workstations recently (eg. Octane 2, Indigo, 02 etc), and i know that these are used by university teams, who make similar graphical visualisations, that these are the thing to use.

But i'm confused. They must be good, but when i look at the specs they don't seem particularly powerfull when compared to a brand new PC with , and some seem to be behind concerning OpenGL implementations (although i expect parts can be upgraded).

So are these actually as good as they are supposed to be for running graphical visualisations, and are they worth the investment ?

Ubuntu 9.04, Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 - screen flicker

majestic0110 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:11:39 GMT

Hi all, I hope you are well. I am very new to Ubuntu and I am experiencing occasional screen flickers (the monitor will go black for a split second, then resume as normal). Now, I have tried googling for a solution but I have not found one yet that satisfies the issue. As you can imagine, its rather headache inducing. My system is a Toshiba satellite pro p100 PSPAE notebook. I have an nVidia Geforce go 7600 and I have installed the Nvidia server setting utility and have driver 180.44. My distro is Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) GNOME 2.26.1.
Things I have tried to do to rectify the flicker include : DISABLING "Force full GPU scaling". I also tried specifying a refresh rate of 60mhz resolution = 1440*900. Although everytime I apply this, the X utility reverts my preference here back to AUTO (only with the refresh rate and resolution: it remembers the disabled "Force full GPU scaling". Sorry about the long post, I am just trying to provide as much information as possible. Thanks for your time and I hope we can sort this together as it is giving my eyes some trouble!!

USB: The enclosing drive for the volume is locked?

HLA91 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:27:10 GMT

Hi all

I was messing around on my laptop which running WattOS, which is a remaster of Ubuntu in case you haven’t heard of it.
I plugged in my usb stick and I wanted to format it and I used GParted and I noticed in the list there was ext3 so I thought i would give it a try I normally use Fat-something.

I formatted the stick but then upon trying to mount it within PCMan file manager I get "Unable to mount device: The enclosing drive for the volume is locked" I unplugged and replugged the Stick but same thing, and then I formatted as fat32 but still nothing.

I decided to plug it into my windows machine and it came up "Do you wish to format etc". I allowed it to and then i could open it in windows fine but back to Linux and same old thing "Unable to mount device: The enclosing drive for the volume is locked".

I can mount the drive manually and unmount it manually and create files on it via the shell but graphically i cannot mount, unmount or create any files or drag and drop onto it. I just tried another USB stick and same problem and I havent formatted or played with the other one.

Can anyone help me please?

Many thanks

HLA91

which linux is best for me??

vickycodmaster — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:48:05 GMT

i am student pursuing bachelor engineering in computer science.
i know a little about linux and basic commands of unix.but i am interested to know more and get comfortable with linux. i want to
install linux in mine dell studio xps 1340 laptop.
which linux flavour should i install and from where i will get drivers for it?

plz help??

ubuntun

lirebel4lif — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:22:39 GMT

hey i just installed this freewear and theres no sound im not a coputer expert but i know a little can anyone help me on this i have an on board sound thanks my email is

Linux newbie with lots of assistance needed

sonah — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:48:32 GMT

Hi all,

Jst installed debian lenny amd64 on my pc and its all am using currently as i want to master it in as little time as i can. am using kde desktop enviroment and my first problem was that my sound doesnt play yet and also having serious problems installing flashplayer. I need help there. Please advise.