On my laptop, the mice/meece/mouses(?) available to me are
1. Touchpad thing, w/2 buttons and a strip along the side which on a good day scrolls up and down. This gets 75% use
2. A Low res cheapo external wheel mouse with a lead that rolls up on itself and gets out of the way. Gets about 25% use

CHANGES_AND_HINTS.txt on the dvd suggested
If you are using input hotplugging via HAL and a synaptics touchpad, then you might need to copy /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ and edit it to suit your needs.

Now I got the cp, but not the edit. Problem is, if I start X without the external mouse, the strip along the side is no use on the touchpad. Apart from that, It's excellent - brilliant really. The low res mouse and the higher res touchpad have suitable acceleration which was always a battle before.

Any hints on this? xml isn't really my thing.

I need to allow certain users (who do not have root access) to be able to stop and start specific daemons. Can anyone tell how I can do this in Linux?

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Using Fedora 13,
The Website shows well in Local host, but no able to access it from any other host.
I get the error message " The server at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is taking too long to respond".
Any help will be appreciate,
Regards.

Hey I have installed Ubuntu 10.04. But I don't have a 'bootsplash'/start up screen like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhmr3GAGO8w

All I have is a blank screen. How do I fix it? Shouldn't it just be there by default? Do I need to install anything extra, like usplash or something?

Also exactly what Google apps are available for Linux/Ubuntu now? I read somewhere Google Desktop Search was available. This would rock, as having tried Beagle in the past and not having been all that impressed with it (it lacked the feel of real OS level integration and always just seemed to run like a separate app.), I would be hopeful that Google Desktop search would work a bit better.

Has anyone tied it? What's your view? Now that Mac and Windows both have advanced Desktop search integration, it seems that search (or specifically pre-built-in integrated search) is one area where Gnome is still seriously lacking.

Hi,

Just got Ubuntu (latest, greatest) installed. IIRC I selected 'auto loggin' from the install CD, but I'm unsure how this works. I have a user loggin 'ray' and a PW that's all OK. In the GUI, if I want to do something heavy it asks me for a PW which tells me that I'm 'root' at that time.

But at the CL prompt I can't log in as root with no PW nor with the PW I use as 'ray'.

BTW, is there somewhere I can bitch about the install CD? It was not an unpleasant experience, but I think it could be a bit better.

Hi All,

Brand new to this. Got Ubuntu installed with not much trouble, tho I found the install CD not as helpful as it might be. Anyway, I have three monitors and want to get them running, same as in XP. Is there somewhere I can read up on this? At the moment my worst card is on the lowest PCI slot, and as I understand it, that makes it always the default, but XP has no trouble with that. Ubuntu's monitor setup page tells me 'unknown monitor' and seems unhappy with the graphics abilities of the card, but lspci reports all three cards correctly, so they are 'visible' at least.

Thoughts?

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I have a dual boot 40GB laptop, Windows 2000 & an old Mandrake 2.4 kernel edition. The Mandrake takes up 10GB and I would like to delete it and use a disk manager to convert it to NTFS to use on the Windows side.
I configured it to boot with LILO and then to windows as the primary OS.
If I delete the Mandrake partition will the Windows bootloader automatically take over or will I lose the ability to boot to Windows

I just got my iPhone and I noticed that there are some blogs about iPhone being supported by Ubuntu and stuff. Digging a bit deeper it turns out that it might or may not include iPhone 4. Is this true or has someone had some success?

Mine is recognized - the Rhytmbox and F-Spot are launched. There is an iPhone desktop icon. However, if I launch Rhytmbox the icon dissappears and I do not know how to get it back - except plug and unplug the USB cable. Can not do much with Rhytmbox either - if I leave it running and do plug/unplug the phone appears but nothing underneath - I'll have to make yet another trial.

This is, however besides the point - as I am not really interested playing music from iPhone with my laptop. I am interested in getting music data copied up on my iPhone from my Ubuntu Laptop.

I can see Photos on my phone immediately if I do not start Rhytmbox or F-Spot and double-click the desktop icon straight ahead. I can also see a iTunes folder, but underneath under a music folder there are some about 40 folders, some empty some not - if there is mp3s they have some non-descriptive file names. So I assume iTunes just takes the files and somehow renames and places them under the iTunes - Music folder.

Is there any easy way of just copying and pasting the stuff on phone folder with nautilus so that the phone's iPod program can play it?

Hello


Can anyone help me with a Howto or some pointers on how to get logwatch working with shorewall logs. I tried fwlogwatch but could not get that working.

Cheers

"Scientists have shown off a system they say could "substantially" improve the data capacity of fibre optic networks."

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Hya,

I made an animation file (avi file) using gimp. (All default setting for master videoencoder, audio file is either wav or aiff format)

mplayer can play it as expected. (both video and audio)
vlc plays only audio with white noise, no video at all, (black screen)
cinelerra goes wrong (like Mac and windoes)

Macintosh and windoez (application chosen by OS) can play video, but audio plays incomplete (white noise goes every now and then)

As I need to distribute this file to work community (mostly non Linux) I need to trouble shoot.

So far I have not found any significant error message (gimp, mplayer, vlc, cinelerra).

file command gives me Code: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 1032 x 1800, 1.00 fps, video: Motion JPEG, audio: uncompressed PCM (stereo, 22050 Hz) Original audio file plays flawlessly on any platform.
So far, I have changed video aspect ratio and audio sampling rate. For some reason audio 22.05k sampling rate (gimp audio option) does not work at all.

Where can I start?

My system: Debian squeeze.

Hi all,


I am new to minicom. I have followed links and help online. I am able to see my serial port ttyS1. I as configured it and all for my protocol. But after connecting my serial port device and running minicom -c on. I do nto know how to proceed from there. Can any one tell me or suggest me the link where I can find details on it.

I want to read data from weighting scales to my linux machine in C program using serial port communication. Do you think I can use minicom for the same . if yes how?

please do suggest me , i need it to be done.

Thanks

Cadd

Hi Tech guru's
rewrite rules for http://subdomain.maindomain.com/path/ to http://path.maindomain.com

is there way to do this with rewrite?