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5.1 surround sound does not work

Posted Sun, 2010-05-09 14:09 by pcstunner

It seems 5.1 surround sound on Ubuntu 9.10 either does work or it doesn't end of story. Mine doesn't! I have trawled the universe for help and nothing works. I have an external usb 5.1 sound card made by Trust (thats what it says in the base speaker) I have no other info on this. So far I have followed some instructions and changed a command in somewhere to read default-sample-channels =6. Then rebooted and met with silence when I tried to do a speaker test. My 9.10 doesn't have the screen many instructions refer to. When I left click on the speaker at the top of the screen I get a thin volume slide bar, if I right click on the speaker I get a small box offering me Mute or sound Preferences. This and its sub screens just don't match the instructions. I don't seem to have a Volume Manager or Volume Control screen.I think this external sound card is possibly pants but I cant be sure.

Any help most welcome.

Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't boot after upgrade from 9.10

Posted Sun, 2010-05-09 07:57 by jafurcha

I just upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 and immediately had some problems with booting after a restart.

Here is a video but I will explain it anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEr7glFLf48

The font changed suddenly during startup, and then the screen flashed, and the logo appeared but then became what I would call pixelated. Then all I got was a black screen and it just hung there.

Did a hard restart and entered the GRUB loader and chose Ubuntu 10.04 kernel 2.6.31-21 instead of Ubuntu 10.04 kernel 2.6.32-22 and it came up with this message which hung there long enough for me to snap a photo:

mount: mounting none on /dev failed: No such device092b3250a
chroot: cannot execute /etc/apparmor/initramfs: No such file or directory.

Kompozer installation user failure

Posted Sat, 2010-05-08 16:25 by pcstunner

Forgive me everyone as I am new to Ubuntu coming from that other place and installing something that works properly. I know a bit about PCs but I just don't understand what I am doing now.
I want to install Kompozer onto Ubuntu 9.10. Somewhere in this forum are some very good links and instructions that explain how installation works and what has to be done. I have blundered my way through these and have now "hit the Wall".

Some how upgraded 9.10 beta to 10.04LTS

Posted Fri, 2010-05-07 09:05 by sweetwater

I just noticed that I had upgraded 9.10 beta to 10.04 LTS. [Too many installs to keep track of for this dementia bird] I did get a message about something not being able to connect to a repository part during install and have been getting the same message occasionally during updates. Everything else seems to work fine except default Firefox and Thunderbird 3.0.4 were unable to connect to internet. TBird using gmail still cannot send or receive. Even Hotmail has the same prob. if I still have an account. Settings checked many times. I solved Firefox problem by disabling ivp6.
Just wondering if the Mozilla connection problem may be related to Beta being upgraded or something else. I saw other posts that had same or similar send receive problem but no definitive result from them. In fact I cannot find them any more.

Google search results appearing incorrectly

Posted Fri, 2010-05-07 06:19 by ksawka

Yesterday everything was working fine in Chromium and Firefox, and on Chrome I passed the acid3 test with 99 percent. Today google search results are displaying garbage and the same in firefox. Acid3 only passes at 97 percent. What is wrong? This is what it looks like: http://i42.tinypic.com/ak8i0g.png

Any help would be great! Thanks!

-Ken

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Screenshots Gallery

Posted Wed, 2010-05-05 16:46 by gg234

The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer.Our newest release, the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , brings a host of exciting new features for users.This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process,Desktop,applications screeshots

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How to Upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Desktop

Posted Wed, 2010-05-05 16:45 by gg234

The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer.Our newest release, the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , brings a host of exciting new features for users.This tutorial will explain How to Upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) released on the 29th April 2010.

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Spam bot?

Posted Tue, 2010-05-04 19:08 by erniebob36

What is spam bot? I seem to be only person to answer no to the question. Do I need to change my answer? Ernbobbie

Updated to 10.04, Lost wireless

Posted Tue, 2010-05-04 18:20 by erniebob36

Updated to 10.04 on Friday. Saturday, signed in and found no wireless icon in taskbar and no connection to internet What happened, and how do I fix. All other computers on LAN are fine. Thanks Erniebob

winff ffmpeg: unrecognized option '--ar' Lucid Lynx

Posted Tue, 2010-05-04 03:12 by red

following error message appear if i try to convert a mp3 file:

Duration: 00:07:40.04, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 187 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
/usr/bin/ffmpeg: unrecognized option '--ar'

please help

I can't find SUDU when in terminal

Posted Mon, 2010-05-03 11:29 by tazzman48

Hello, I am fairly new at this. I am using 9.10 (karmic) and I am trying to install java .
I have downloaded the latest java6u20.i586.bin package and when I open up a terminal window and type sudu I get response command not found as shown below:

simon@simon-desktop:~$ sudu
No command 'sudu' found, did you mean:
Command 'tudu' from package 'tudu' (universe)
Command 'sudo' from package 'sudo' (main)
Command 'sudo' from package 'sudo-ldap' (universe)
sudu: command not found
simon@simon-desktop:~$
I am dual booting with XP and did install ubuntu inside windows. If I install Lucid Lynx will that fix my problem? Or is there an easier way for me to install 'sudu'?

I am still very much at the beginner level, so any help please would be most welcome.
Many thanks

backup thunderbird email

Posted Fri, 2010-04-30 20:21 by sweetwater

Anybody got some excellent easy ideas [meaning programs] for backing up things like emails and documents and other perishable data for restoring after bad update or wipe drive with zeros reinstall? Looking for ease of use because of dementia and inability to stay focused while remembering and doing!!! Thanx #:)SW

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) is out now!

Posted Thu, 2010-04-29 19:36 by Friedrich

Finally Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) is out!!

You can download it here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/10.04/

aTunes - Full-featured audio player and manager

Posted Wed, 2010-04-28 10:59 by gg234

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

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Problems with installing Softwares

Posted Mon, 2010-04-26 16:29 by linuxnewbie

Thanks very much alanrochester for your help, I now have a better understanding of the ways SW are installed in Linux environment. However when I tried to have the SW XVidcap from http://linuxappfinder.com/ installed using the default GDebi package installer, I got the error message:" Dependency is not satisfiable", and when I tried another version of XVidcap, I got the error message: "A later version is available in a software channel. You are strongly advised to install the version from the software channel, since it is usually better supported." My question is where can I find this software channel? and what can I do with the dependency problem? Thanks again.