Installed Ubuntu 8.04 on an old unused white box. Install was uneventful, but resulting screen resolution cannot be increased beyond 800x600 (sometimes only 640x480). Am using a 17" LCD panel with 1280x1024 native resolution. 800x600 is just unacceptable. Have Googled problem and spent an entire day on this to no avail. Video card is Nvidia Geforce2 MX-400 with 64MB. Have tried all drivers mentioned in posts: nvidia, nv, nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-legacy. No change, resolutions above 800x600 do not appear in Screen Resolution list. Editted xorg.conf many different ways adding Modes lines to Monitor and Device sections. Added vert/horiz sync range lines. No help. Tried running nvidia-settings, but it won't run complaining "Not using Nvidia X driver". Says to edit xorg.conf or run nvidia-xconfig. Installed and ran nvidia-xconfig, but no change. One suggestion was to rerun X configuration and chose screen resolution there. Tried that, but all it asked was questions about the keyboard and nothing about the video adapter or screen.

I am curious if anyone out there has had trouble trying to install the new Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on-line. I have tried a download to a DVD install and got a message stating " no root partition installed". At that point the screen froze-could not go forward or backwards. Then I tried an on-line upgrade to 8.04 from 7.10 and wound up with the screen sticking at a terminal command prompt.I am wondering if this condition is more of a hardware issue than a software issue.Any information will be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I am looking for an application that would do some sort of stock control. Something web based with a db backend not too complicated jus to do stock control and perhaps send out a monthly report or two. Anyone know of free app software like this ?Thanks

A couple of weeks ago I decided that I would finally take the plunge and try out a Linux distro. I finally settled with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, during the instalation (not knowing any better) formatted the entire disk completely removing windeows from my laptop.I've using ubuntu and really enjoy it except a couple of programs (like lightwave) only work on windows due to a security dongle. So I've tried reinstalling ubuntu this time ensuring that I create a fat32 partition as well as an ext3 for my root file system and swap with a /windows system however during the formatting part of the installation process I get an error saying that this couldn't be done.I'm extremely new at this kind of thing and have no idea what's wrong.

I need any advise or info regarding installing Ubuntu 7.10 on my acer laptop 5710G. Will there be a sufficient video drivers for ATI HD2300 on such a machine?

Helo Ubuntu friends! Ijust spent haf an hour to write and describe my problem and my text just wanished, soooooooooo frustrating. so here I go again Upon installing the Ubuntu I tried to configure the internet connection where I (thought) was doing well. But, in the end when hitting connect I got error: somehow when i tred to edit the text, I could not get out the *More Formating Options* I blame that on my buggy Firefox though. ......... conection refused..........................Was the error I got, Again, the same modem works flawlessly in my soon to be gone Vista !!!!!!! My service provider is: ....Okanagan.net Dial up access number 717-8201 (the area code prefix not used as it is considered local cal) Incomong mail server: mail.okanagan.net Outgoing mail server: mail.okanagan.net (although I never did see fields for thouse in Ubuntu) web site:www.okanagan net Passweord: ******** Username ******* Please people, I am an oldie and a newbie to boot, so I need steps on this.

I want to re-install windows xp again in my pc, bcoz it's slow or going to corrupt, will its re-installation effect the Operating System selection menu for XP and Linux Ubuntu or not?If ur answer is YES, than how to prevent it from happening?Because i want xp and ubunt run as dual os in my pc.

Hi,I've recently been tasked to set up CUPS and Kyota on an ubuntu based machine to manage our networked printers.  I am however a complete novice to linux (covered some real basic stuff like navigation etc in college...but that was nearly 10 years ago...so naturally I forget most of it).  I read some instructions, but none of the sites I can find put it in plain step-by-step English.  I gather I need to have SAMBA running...how do I check that this is the case?  If it's not, how do i install it?  Many sites seem to explain things by mentioning more and more applications that i have no idea about.  Surely this can't be too much of a chore?Could anybody please point me in the direction of a useful guide for beginners, or please explain the steps from a fresh install of ubuntu to configuring CUPs?Thanks in advance for your time!Ian

I am new to Ubantu, I am trying to install VLC media player. First I tried looking that in synaptic but I couldn't locate that, My synaptic is showing 1132 listed packages and 1099 installed. then I tried with command line drizzle@drizzle-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc [sudo] password for drizzle: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? drizzle@drizzle-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information .. Done E: Couldn't find package vlc Can some one tell what the problem is? I am able to access internet through my mozilla. Thanks in advance

Installation of Ubuntu 7.10 is just smooth enough for even a newbie like me to do without any help but the problem that pops up after installation is to get your devices to work up. Is there any common resource website where I can get all the drivers I will ever need for all of my hardware to work? During installation, there is an option to load from a driver cd, so is there any such driver cd ISO image available which I can download, burn n use?  The main problem with my hardware is that i don't have drivers for my ethernet as well as WLan so i cannot connect to internet in any way and update my system or get drivers. I am using my friends computer for posting in this forum! Please help me with my drivers! I am using a Broadcom mini Wlan card. I will post my whole specification soon!

Webcam Tech Mobility with Ubuntu 7.10 is it possible?Can you explain me please?

cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@f4l.cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/f4l co f4l-0.2cd f4l-0.2makeU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_33.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_34.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_35.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_36.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_37.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_38.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_39.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_4.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_40.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_41.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_42.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_43.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_44.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_45.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_46.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_47.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_48.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_49.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_5.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_50.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_51.xpmU f4l-0.2/src/cursor/Cursor_55.xpm

It fails partitioning at 33%...oddly enough it automatically starts at 33% as well. I had to fix the MBR...it must have been successful...prior to now the 160gb drive was being read as 1803.8 TB....now it is read at the correct specs.The attempt to mount a filesystem with type ext3 in scsi2 (0,0,0) partition #1 (sda) at / failedHow can i get this up and running...I am out of ideas. I havn't ran into this issue before. New Linux user. Tried 5.01, tried 7.1Amd athalon, Averatec c3500 completely empty drive...no OS.I don't know what the other installation methods are wich is why I haven't tried them.

Hi,I'm trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my PC, its an INTEL CORE 2 DUO 1GB 160 HD. I start the system by the boot CD and click install on desktop. It starts the installation but it get to the partition step shows only the manual optionAfter that, on the screen that should show all the partition, it shows nothing and I can't go on.Can anybody help me?ThanksEvandro

I have installed Ubantu Linux in New Compaq Celeron LapTOP-- Dual Boot XP and Ubantu. All seemas to be ok. But MP3 file not working. Tried to pwn load some MP3 player from we. I am not sure --ways to install packages. Please Help. G.Krishna Prasad. 091-9444956419 prasadthiru2002@gmail.com