I needed to have gcc 4.6+ on my laptop to compile some c++11 code, which my gcc 4.4.4 from synaptic wasn’t able to handle. Yes, yes ‘update your ubuntu’ is the default warcry in such situations, but I didn’t want that to happen, not yet. So I needed a second gcc in my system. This [...]
Several ways found so far, the suggested ‘through the nautilus’ webdav connection approach never worked for me on both 10.10 and 10.04. Maybe it works with a later version, I don’t know. But here is an easy way to set it up. * Open terminal * sudo vim /etc/fstab * append this line to the [...]
Usually I look after this over and over again, each time I set up ubutntu 10.04 or 10.10. So, this time I will post the link to the quick solution: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10324779&postcount=8 Just in case the link is unavailable, here is what it says: Re: Disable nouveau Quote: Originally Posted by bmeakings View Post You can [...]
The system was missing my partition E, or my Storage partition. It was wiped out. Storage manager denoted it as unallocated space. A quick reboot into Ubuntu ended up with same knowledge: Unallocated space.
No space for panic. Google comes, google helps. I found a marvelous little command line tool which was able to revamp my Storage NTFS partition in about 10 seconds. It’s called testdisk.
You have Ubuntu 9.10. You own M-Audio Audiophile 2496 audio interface. And you can’t hear a thing? I had to deal with this twice. First time it was when I upgraded my Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. Everything was fine, except: my 2496 Audiophile stopped playing any sound at all. Daemon.log didn’t show any errors coming [...]