Chris Carter's questions

Ubuntu 13.04 x64

I have recently set up my PC with multiple users (my own account and 3 additional standard accounts)

As I have a habit of doing a fresh install every 6 months I always like to ensure my backup is up-to date (I am using the Deja-Dup backup tool)

Having never restored from a backup with multiple users before I would just like some clarity on how it will work or if indeed I am doing it correctly.

The folder I have backed up is /home as it contains the home folders of each user, so the question is when I do a fresh install (probably in October when 13.10 is released) and restore from backup will it create the additional user accounts, or will I first have to create the user accounts then restore. Or should I do a separate backup for each account or something completely different?

I apologise if this is a stupid question

I installed an App called Love Wallpaper HD from here using the .deb download

As you can see it's Chinese. I can't seem to find an English language version.

Is there a way to translate so it displays in English. Although it's not essential to make the programme usable as it's fairly self explanatory, it would be nice as it's a wonderful programme.

Running Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit

I have an old wireless adaptor that I used to use in Ubuntu until it seemed like it was no longer supported, I can't remember exactly when, but think it was around 10.10 Maverick.

I have just dug it out as my children's laptop wireless card has gone kaput.

My old usb wireless card is not seen by Network-Manager.

Doing lsusb it shows:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1435:0427 Wistron NeWeb UR054g 802.11g Wireless Adapter [Intersil ISL3887]

This link would suggest that the device is still supported by the Linux kernel

This link provides instructions for enabling the device in Debian systems

Is there a way I can get it to work in Ubuntu 12.04 32bit?

P.S. I have tried sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-precise-genericwithout luck

result of dmesg|grep p54

[   22.706862] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_free_hw
[   22.706870] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_free_hw (err -22)
[   22.706876] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_alloc_hw
[   22.706879] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_alloc_hw (err -22)
[   22.706887] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_beacon_loss
[   22.706890] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_loss (err -22)
[   22.706909] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol regulatory_hint
[   22.706912] p54common: Unknown symbol regulatory_hint (err -22)
[   22.706921] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_register_hw
[   22.706923] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_register_hw (err -22)
[   22.706938] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb
[   22.706941] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb (err -22)
[   22.706950] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol __ieee80211_get_radio_led_name
[   22.706953] p54common: Unknown symbol __ieee80211_get_radio_led_name (err -22)
[   22.706964] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wake_queue
[   22.706967] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wake_queue (err -22)
[   22.706977] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol __ieee80211_get_tx_led_name
[   22.706980] p54common: Unknown symbol __ieee80211_get_tx_led_name (err -22)
[   22.706992] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe
[   22.706994] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe (err -22)
[   22.707005] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state
[   22.707008] p54common: Unknown symbol wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state (err -22)
[   22.707020] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol __ieee80211_get_rx_led_name
[   22.707023] p54common: Unknown symbol __ieee80211_get_rx_led_name (err -22)
[   22.707034] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_queue_delayed_work
[   22.707037] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_queue_delayed_work (err -22)
[   22.707064] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_stop_queue
[   22.707067] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_stop_queue (err -22)
[   22.707074] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol __ieee80211_get_assoc_led_name
[   22.707077] p54common: Unknown symbol __ieee80211_get_assoc_led_name (err -22)
[   22.707090] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_unregister_hw
[   22.707093] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_unregister_hw (err -22)
[   22.707098] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_beacon_get_tim
[   22.707101] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get_tim (err -22)
[   22.707118] p54common: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_irqsafe
[   22.707121] p54common: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_irqsafe (err -22)

Is it possible to automatically 'select all' when I left click in a browser address/search bar.

I know it's only one more click by right clicking and then choosing 'select all' and I probably sound a bit fussy but it's feature I like.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 64bit, Chrome and Firefox

Thanks in advance.

As an update, Chrome now does this automatically

Since installing Ubuntu 12.10 I have been playing around trying to get my Radeon HD 5450 gpu to work with the proprietary driver, as from the start installing the driver meant losing unity.

I won't list the steps I took as it is not a requirement to answering this question.

After taking one measure and then installing fglrx-updates, upon reboot the system hung at the purple screen. So I decided to boot using nomodeset

I edited

quiet splash $vt_handoff

to look like this

quiet splash nomodeset

Making this change I am then able to log in with Unity and the proprietary driver installed and performing well. I would go as far as to say it performs better than it did in 12.04

fglrxinfo reads

display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11903 Compatibility Profile Context

Please note the way I have added nomodeset It had been a while since I have had to do this so it was done from memory. When looking for an answer to this question I came across this and discovered that my edit was supposed to go from

quiet splash $vt_handoff

to

nomodeset $vt_handoff

What has my nomodeset edit done? The only thing wrong that I have noticed is that I don't get the plymouth Ubuntu logo screen when booting.

If that is the only trade-off I am happy to make the edit permanant.

I have tried to install Ubuntu Accomplishments on my clean 12.10 install.

Following the installation instructions as outlined here After entering the final command

sudo apt-get install accomplishments-daemon accomplishments-viewer ubuntu-community-accomplishments ubuntu-desktop-accomplishments accomplishments-lens

I get the following unable to locate package

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package accomplishments-lens

I checked Software sources and the ppa: was successfully added and no problems were shown after sudo apt-get update

Thanks in advance for any help

After having bought the latest Humble Bundle, I am finding Limbo not to perform greatly.

The advice on the F&Q site is

Q: Limbo does not perform as well as I hoped for

A: In the settings.txt file you can set the resolution and the target framerate lower. Firstly delete everything below the ———identifers——- marker and then try “use30hz = true” and a backbufferheight lower than 720.

This file can be found here /opt/limbo/support/limbo/drive_c/program files/limbo/settings.txt

So to edit I assumed the command to be

gksudo gedit /opt/limbo/support/limbo/drive_c/program files/limbo/settings.txt

This however opens a blank file as below

Where am I going wrong?

   carter@carter-desktop:~$ ls -l "/opt/limbo/support/limbo/drive_c/program files/limbo/settings.txt"
ls: cannot access /opt/limbo/support/limbo/drive_c/program files/limbo/settings.txt: No such file or directory
carter@carter-desktop:~$ 

The file is there and looks like this

A few months back I installed 12.04 on a separate hard drive just to keep track of developments. during that time I noticed that the resolution was not great, everything seemed just a little blurry. Not by huge amounts but just enough to notice it especially after switching from my main 11.10 install.

I didn't take a lot of notice as 12.04 was still in its development stage, however now that I have upgraded my primary hard drive to 12.04 final I now have the issue permanently.

My graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 9300 GE. I have tried both drivers available to me (no change)

Something that does work however is if I change the refresh rate via Nvidia settings. It defaults to 75Hz which I can change to auto or 60Hz, if I make the change to either of those the problem is solved. Even though I am saving the settings to /etc/X11/xorg.conf if I log out or reboot it defaults back to 75Hz. How can I make this change permanent or should I be looking at changing something else?

Thanks for your help

Even my main monitor is shown as unknown. I have tried setting up dual monitors using Nvidia settings with no joy however it does recognize that I have 2 monitors.

This was not an issue in 11.04. My problem with the Nvidia settings appears to be that my 2 monitors require different resolutions but even when I set them to a resolution that they both can handle, it is then only appearing in cloned mode. I really hope someone can help or I will have to roll back to 11.04.

Why won't Ubuntu 11.10 recognize that I have 2 Monitors?

Here is the contents of my xorg.conf:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 280.13  (buildd@rothera)  Thu Aug 11 17:28:49 UTC 2011

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "CRT-0"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 76.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +1024+0, DFP: 1024x768 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection"

ok I have tried disper -e. Problem is that Nvidia settings appear to be treating both monitors as the same one. so changing the settings to one has no effect, but change the other and it affects both screens identically.

Results of disper -l as follows:

    carter@carter-desktop:~$ disper -l
display DFP-0: HP vs17
 resolutions: 320x240, 400x300, 416x312, 512x384, 576x432, 680x384, 640x480, 720x450, 640x512, 800x512, 840x525, 800x600, 960x540, 832x624, 960x600, 896x672, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x960, 1280x1024
display CRT-0: CRT-0
 resolutions: 320x240, 400x300, 416x312, 512x384, 576x432, 680x384, 640x480, 720x450, 640x512, 800x512, 840x525, 800x600, 960x540, 832x624, 960x600, 896x672, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1360x768, 1280x960, 1440x900, 1280x1024, 1400x1050, 1600x1024, 1680x1050, 1600x1200, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 1792x1344
carter@carter-desktop:~$