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I've tried using the stock modules without success. I've gone up to installing the package linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic but without success (I'm sticking with the LTS releases for...

To answer my own question:

It turns out that (at the time of this writing) two Python packages were keeping apport from running, giving the

python-lazr.batchnavigator - bug report bug #696075...

I'm not entirely sure where this bug might be coming from. I suspect that my Python installation is somehow mucked up but many other things are functional.

I first identified it when I attempted...

You did that on a 32-bit or on a 64-bit kernel?
If you do

uname -m
on a gnome-terminal console, do you get "x86_64" or "i386" ?

Because it seems that Netgear bundles its driver only for...

To answer my own question, here goes:

Refer to: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7033/1/
Here, the author describes that starting from Lucid Lynx the Upstart startup manager...

Hi everyone,

Until Karmic Koala I could enable/disable services at startup (such as ssh or mysql) by issuing a update-rc.d -f someservice remove. On reboot, it would no longer run, and I could...

That's great, thanks. It helped me quite a bit.

Instead of having to boot from CD, you may want to just start a guest session and take note of the keys to be changed, as described above.
I...

Floppyjoe, thanks for the precious walkthrough!



On Ubuntu Lucid (10.04), the file above no longer exists. However, a similar file with the two affected entries is instead...

Leave /etc/grub.d/00_header and /etc/grub.d/10_linux alone. Instead, work with the file /etc/default/grub . There is a commented line there for GRUB_GFXMODE, I recommend you leave the commented line...

I did a fresh install of Lucid, amd64, this weekend on a new desktop (Intel i7 920, 8GB RAM, ASUS GeForge GT220 with HDMI).
I installed the NVidia controller and it seems to have solved a couple of...

Dear all,

I've tried to install the IBM Informix Client Software Development Kit (CSDK) in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) this week. Since this is not a package bundled with Ubuntu, a bug report on its...

After booting Windows (blech!) and googling around, I did exactly as vijay described: a symbolic link to the actual /dev/sda# (mine was #=4, therefore /boot/grub/grub.cfg said set root=(hd0,4) ).
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Following the steps described here:
http://blogs.srijan.in/2008/01/19/bluetooth-gps-devices-with-linux
I managed to get NMEA sentences from the GPS unit. :) It turns out I had to unbind the...

Anyone? :confused:

Dear all,

I'm managing to get (mostly) everything in my EeePC 1000H with Intrepid (8.10). One of the things I'm attempting is using a GPS receiver (Holux GPSlim240) running in Linux.
* The...