user49523's questions

There aren't any drivers for the video card on my computer or for SiS in Ubuntu repositories and I know that it is poorly supported or one of least supported. I also have Windows installed and on Windows the drivers are installed and available.

Can I use wine or PlayOnLinux to install those drivers from Windows so that I have the drivers installed on Ubuntu?

Is that possible?

I have Ubuntu 12.04 beta so far and Ubuntu 11.10 installed

My video card is:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)

From a previous question that I asked How to use Unity 3d and Gnome Shell without any drivers?

i have ubuntu 11.10 installed and ubuntu 12.04 beta also installed in the same machine.

is there a difference between:

upgrading from ubuntu 11.10 to ubuntu 12.04

and

updating from ubuntu 12.04 beta to ubuntu 12.04?

i have ubuntu 12.04 beta and ubuntu 11.10 installed.

Is it possible to login simultaneous as the same user with 3 different environments kde, gnome and unity? Or even more with xfce and lxde?

How can I do that?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 beta, but also have have Ubuntu 11.10 installed.

I ask this question cause I have 3 different users and I would prefer to only have 1.

and i think it would be more easy to handle if i decide to launch the 3 at same time.

I read a tutorial about how to compile and install a Wikipedia lens, but it didn't work.

The tutorial sounds easy - i just copied and pasted to the file that was suppose to edit.

I have tried some times and here are 2 edits

edit 1:

import logging
import optparse

import gettext
from gettext import gettext as _
gettext.textdomain('wikipedia')

from singlet.lens import SingleScopeLens, IconViewCategory, ListViewCategory

from wikipedia import wikipediaconfig
import urllib2
import simplejson

class WikipediaLens(SingleScopeLens):

wiki = "http://en.wikipedia.org"
def wikipedia_query(self,search):
    try:
        search = search.replace(" ", "|")
        url = ("%s/w/api.php?action=opensearch&limit=25&format=json&search=%s" % (self.wiki, search))
        results = simplejson.loads(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())
        print "Searching Wikipedia"
        return results[1]
    except (IOError, KeyError, urllib2.URLError, urllib2.HTTPError, simplejson.JSONDecodeError):
        print "Error : Unable to search Wikipedia"
        return []

   class Meta:
    name = 'Wikipedia'
    description = 'Wikipedia Lens'
    search_hint = 'Search Wikipedia'
    icon = 'wikipedia.svg'
    search_on_blank=True

    # TODO: Add your categories
   articles_category = ListViewCategory("Articles", "dialog-information-symbolic")

  def search(self, search, results):
    for article in self.wikipedia_query(search):
        results.append("%s/wiki/%s" % (self.wiki, article),
                    "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Wikipedia-logo.png",
                    self.articles_category,
                    "text/html",
                    article,
                    "Wikipedia Article",
                    "%s/wiki/%s" % (self.wiki, article))
    pass

edit 2:

import urllib2
import simplejson


import logging
import optparse

import gettext
from gettext import gettext as _
gettext.textdomain('wikipediaa')

from singlet.lens import SingleScopeLens, IconViewCategory, ListViewCategory

from wikipediaa import wikipediaaconfig

class WikipediaaLens(SingleScopeLens):

wiki = "http://en.wikipedia.org"

def wikipedia_query(self,search):
    try:
        search = search.replace(" ", "|")
        url = ("%s/w/api.php?action=opensearch&limit=25&format=json&search=%s" % (self.wiki, search))
        results = simplejson.loads(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())
        print "Searching Wikipedia"
        return results[1]

    except (IOError, KeyError, urllib2.URLError, urllib2.HTTPError, simplejson.JSONDecodeError):
        print "Error : Unable to search Wikipedia"
        return []
def search(self, search, results):
    for article in self.wikipedia_query(search):
        results.append("%s/wiki/%s" % (self.wiki, article),
                    "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Wikipedia-logo.png",
                    self.articles_category,
                    "text/html",
                    article,
                    "Wikipedia Article",
                    "%s/wiki/%s" % (self.wiki, article))
    pass

    class Meta:
    name = 'Wikipedia'
    description = 'Wikipedia Lens'
    search_hint = 'Search Wikipedia'
    icon = 'wikipedia.svg'
    search_on_blank=True

    # TODO: Add your categories
   articles_category = ListViewCategory("Articles", "dialog-information-symbolic")

    def search(self, search, results):
    # TODO: Add your search results
    results.append('https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Lenses/Singlet',
                'ubuntu-logo',
                self.example_category,
                "text/html",
                'Learn More',
                'Find out how to write your Unity Lens',
                'https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Lenses/Singlet')
    pass

so .. what can i change in the edit ? (if anybody give me the entire edit file edited i will appreciate)

I don't know if this is possible and already done automatically when logging in with Ubuntu One, but can I synchronise bookmarks from Firefox to Ubuntu One automatically?

So that I can add bookmarks on the same computer from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.10 or even from a newer installation of Ubuntu.

If it is possible, how can I do that?

i use to have when i have the computer turn on and was idle having more than 2 tasks running at same time.. but now this is not happens and it is enable at maximum of 2 tasks at same time, i don know why.

also i was able 2 do that on ubuntu 11.10 not sure if is the same using boinc on ubuntu 11.10.

so why this happens?

and how can i set up boinc 2 run more than just 2 tasks at same time in ubuntu 12.04 beta?

Currently I don't have any driver available for the laptop that I use , and because of this I only can use Unity 2d and Gnome Panel.

I have Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 installed and no drivers for both.

I would like to use Unity 3d and Gnome Shell..instead of Unity and Gnome Panel or at least have that option even if computer became a little slower.

Is there a way of enabling Unity 3d and gnome without any driver had been installed?

(my video card is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10) )

Some video files from another partition or volume does not display in some video displays but display on another and crashes on others.

Seem to play on these video players:

• vlc
• smplayer
• gnome-mplayer

Seem to have some issues in these video players:

totem -some videos are play while others not banshee -some videos are play while others not bangarang -few videos are play while others not and it crashes and happens also in home folder of filesystem dragon player -crashes and seem not to display any video and happens also in home folder of filesystem

Why this happens? Is this a bug?

This error occurs on ubuntu 12.04 beta 2.

On ubuntu 11.10, every video display play all the video from another partition or from home filesystem.

i have installed owncloud on ubuntu but i can find it on the menu dash, i even try to run own terminal by typing owncloud, but nothing start

i also have an ubuntu 1 account but i also would like to use owncloud

can i use owncloud on ubuntu?

our do i have to be with kde to use owncloud?

or do i have to install another package? i have install owncloud from synaptic

i am using ubuntu 12.04 beta

if you open some applications in kde and log out or shutdown your computer or device you can when log in again it automatically open the last open applications.

is that possible on unity 2d and 3d ?

jamendo is open music platform for artists and listers, i know that debian was on jamendo on the stores on rhythmbox by default, and also ubuntu use to have

so why is not been there anymore on ubuntu ? is it because of ubuntu one ?

and how can i add jamendo to the music players like rhythmbox and banshee ?

magnatune store is on rhytmbox plugins bu t not on banshee ?

can we expect jamendo to be include on next release , that i am using beta version, of ubuntu 12.04?

Can I change the video options on the new dash menu?

To be more precise, on the video file find menu filters, can I Add, Remove or Change what URLs can be include? If so how can I do?

For example if I want to change in the filters youtube shows to YouTube comedy, how you do it?

(I just installed MyUnity but from what I read and tested it won't fully work on Unity 2D, however I can change video filters using that)

I have install many applications and cheese was one of those but I can not open

I have tried cheese on debian 6.04 and cheese works fine but not on Ubuntu.

Maybe, I do not any drivers installed on the system? Because they are available. Do I have to install them?

If this is the cause of that, what can I do ,or when a driver it will be available? (I send a report 2 launchpad of the system)

and because of that I can not use neither Ubuntu 3d or gnome shell or play 3d games.

my hardware display on terminal using command lspci was:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)

(..just about every hardware is from Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] on my laptop)

using cheese on terminal give me this error:

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". (cheese:4163):
Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: 
The OpenGL version could not be determined

but after a new installation of ubuntu and update (did here a reboot)and new instalations of applications give me a different error before reboot on terminal that was:

(cheese:506): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter:
Unable to find suitable fbconfig for the GLX context: 
Unable to find fbconfig with rgba visual

but them after rebooting after installing aplication give the same error

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". (cheese:4163):
Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: 
The OpenGL version could not be determined

i have also installed ubuntu 12.04 and cheese works fine like for example stellarium even without a driver installed

so should i try to upgrade ubuntu 11.04 to ubuntu 12.04 beta? or wait for ubuntu 12.04 ?

i have upgrade ubuntu from 11.10 2 ubuntu 12.04 beta but still didn't work..

so i try to install ubuntu 12.04 beta from the start make a update and them install cheese it works like it did but them i also use synaptic and install all packages or applications from the markings on my ubuntu 11.10 .. and it seen all is working on the graphics better not fast but working like for exemple supertuxkart or stellarium