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I tried that. The icons in the side task bar changed to the defaults, but the top status bar did not.

If I leave my session idle long enough so that the screen saver kicks in, the login screen...

I have the same problem. That is, no gear icon in the status bar. In fact the status bar is completely blank except for the network manager and Dropbox icons. But when I try 'killall...

My system got compromised and I'm trying to find out how. The log files show a brute force attack on user bin. Since remote ssh login attempts are spaced 3 seconds apart, I am having difficulty...

The problem is fixed.

I edited the status file with vim and found a configuration problem with xmind. Blank lines in text should be accomplished with a space and a period: " .", as indicated...

I had an upgrade failure from 11.10 to 12.04. The system comes up with a login screen. The splash screen says 11.10. When I try to login, it looks like it accepts my password and then immediately...

(Ed. Moved my question to a new thread)

I don't know if it's appropriate to piggyback on this thread or start a new one. I too had an upgrade failure from 11.10 to 12.04, but it wasn't due to a...

Awesome analysis. That totally explained why it worked for everybody but me. I looked in the ffmpeg directory in my home account and, sure enough, there were a bunch of files dated from 2010. I...

Here goes. The command from the first post in this thread under "Using FFmpeg and x264" for "One Pass CRF" appears first with screencast.ogv as the input.

Then the same command with '-preset slow'...

'which x264' returns /usr/local/bin/x264

So, it's there. But ffmpeg is clearly not finding it.

Not sure what to do.

Not having any luck with the installation. I'm running 11.10. The goal is to use recordmydesktop to create ogv videos and then post them to the web as mp4's. This was working fine under a previous...

Thanks. I'll give that a try next time it happens. What did you switch to, if you don't use unity?

I'm sorry. The answer is probably somewhere in some forum but I have no idea what keywords to search for.

I've been using ubuntu since 7.04 and this problem I think began with 11.04.

Somehow...

It looks like the most recent (April 17th) update to 10.10 might have broken the libraries used by ffmpeg. I only suggest this because I had a script for creating desktop videos that was working just...

You might want to check out this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10516577#post10516577

I have a Toshiba Satellite C655 and ACPI wasn't working. I upgraded the BIOS and changed...

Yes!!! Finally! I found some time to work on the ACPI problem with my C655, found this thread, and changing to acpi=copy_dsdt did the trick. Not sure if acpi=ht would work also, but I'm not about to...

I just bought a Toshiba C655 laptop and installed ubuntu 10.10 64 bit on it. Shut down does not complete. I disabled the splash screen to get the text display on shutdown. The display announces that...

I'm trying to access a VMware server via Lab Manager using Firefox 3.6.12 from Ubuntu 10.10. Lab Manager comes up but when I double click on a VM console to open it up I get:

VMware Remote MKS...

I just bought a Toshiba C655 laptop and installed ubuntu 10.10 64 bit on it. Shut down does not complete. I get the ubuntu splash screen with the five dots under it and it just hangs. A quick click...

I don't have an answer for you. But I'm experiencing a similar problem in reverse. I had nfs4 set up on a server running 10.04 per the directions at...

Somebody somewhere in this thread suggested changing the settings in the update manager to include pre-releases. I tried this on my Dell laptop D600, but it did not fix the suspend problem. However,...

Good news/bad news. I had the same problem with my Dell D600 laptop, which uses ATI graphics. With Linux, getting the video right can be tricky. There are open source video drivers for the major chip...

I'm glad it worked for you. But it doesn't work for me. The default upgrade on my Dell D600 would not allow selection of the "Extra" or "Normal" drivers. I finally got the ATI driver thing resolved,...

I think therein lies the problem. Lucid did away with HAL, if I'm not mistaken. I think, too, that it might be related to upgrading. There seems to be a major shift in handling video, in addition to...

Here's what I have in menu.lst:

title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic...

Here's where it gets really frustrating. I've seen mention in lots of posts about nomodeset. I'd love to try it. But try and find information about how to set it!? This page doesn't mention it at all...