Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-13 Thread Lane Lester
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Goh Lip g@gmx.com wrote: Glad you have your Lubuntu back. That was a neat trick (remove nvidia-current) and may I refer your method to some guys at ubuntu having the same problem, (gpl v2 licence ? :) ) Of course. Without lists and forums, I think I would

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-12 Thread Lane Lester
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Goh Lip g@gmx.com wrote: I think, but I am not quite sure, startx for lxde is startlxde Well, I didn't get a chance to find out. I did another apt-get update/upgrade, like I did yesterday, and this time I also ran: aptitude remove nvidia-current (after

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Lane Lester
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: But but but.. sputter, fume.. I *did* follow the warnings. :-) I thought. Live and learn. The only warnings I saw were, Your system may break. So you either didn't do the upgrades and your system didn't break,

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Lane Lester
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Goh Lip g@gmx.com wrote: Lane, latest update of X11-xkb-utils solved this. But of course, it would be no help if one cannot boot in, even to the recovery console, to do the upgrade. So, if you are still having the same problem booting up, append

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-10 Thread Lane Lester
Thanks, Bob. Regretfully, that didn't do it for me, but I'm not sure if my problem was nvidia-related. I let Synaptic do the update (90+ packages!), but it errored out with problems updating python packages. I rebooted normally, and it hung after starting cupsd. A repeat did the same. I

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-09 Thread Lane Lester
-- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) Thanks for the warning, Steve! I think I better quit my daily updates for a while to 64-bit Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu. Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can have your own website for just $10+10+10! Click here to visit one of my

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to Get Informative Boot/Install

2010-08-03 Thread Lane Lester
/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extensionFailed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lubuntu/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can have your own website for just $10+10+10! On Tue, Aug 3

[Lubuntu-desktop] How to Get Informative Boot/Install

2010-08-02 Thread Lane Lester
I downloaded, burned, and booted the new Alpha2, but it died along the way with a black screen. No error messages preceded its death. Is there a boot/install option that will spew those progress messages across the screen so I may have a clue about the cause of death? Lane *Lane Lester

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to Get Informative Boot/Install

2010-08-02 Thread Lane Lester
/how-to-fix-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup.html On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Lane Lester lles...@info-fast.com wrote: I downloaded, burned, and booted the new Alpha2, but it died along the way with a black screen. No error messages preceded its death. Is there a boot/install

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to Get Informative Boot/Install

2010-08-02 Thread Lane Lester
that? Have you tested your RAM for errors? No, because I often install new distros, and I recently installed the Ubuntu Minimal CD Alpha 2 without difficulty. OTOH, my fairly new motherboard has an nVidia chipset, which sometimes causes problems. Lane On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Lane Lester lles

[Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: How to Get Informative Boot/Install

2010-08-02 Thread Lane Lester
I hate the way this list messages default to the sender, rather than the group! -- Forwarded message -- From: Lane Lester lles...@info-fast.com Date: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to Get Informative Boot/Install To: Phillip Whiteside phi

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to Get Informative Boot/Install

2010-08-02 Thread Lane Lester
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Lane Lester lles...@info-fast.com wrote: I'll try another and see how it goes. Lane A fresh CD did the trick! I'm typing this in Lubuntu 10.10. I didn't have to add anything to the command line to do the install. Now to see about installing the nVidia video

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 2.6.35-8 kernel won't start X?

2010-07-15 Thread Lane Lester
35-7 is acting up as well. The joys of pre-beta. :-) Kernel 35-8 is working OK for me with nvidia-current, but this is on an install of Ubuntu Minimal CD. I'll download Lubuntu and see how that installs... if I can find the link for the latest. Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the

[Lubuntu-desktop] Server Download Available?

2010-07-15 Thread Lane Lester
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Server Download Available?

2010-07-15 Thread Lane Lester
, Phill. I'm interested in 10.10, and it looks like someone goofed and linked the torrent for the Server link as well as the Torrent link. Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can have your own website for just $10+10+10! Click here to visit one of my sites.http

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 2.6.35-8 kernel won't start X?

2010-07-15 Thread Lane Lester
#Minimal+Install https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp#Minimal+Install Regards, Phill. That sounds good! Those commands are for 10.04; if I use my Ubuntu Minimal CD 64-bit Maverick CD, will the commands give me a 10.10 Lubuntu? Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Changing PDF viewer by default

2010-06-22 Thread Lane Lester
points! I'm installing epdfview right now to see if its functionality makes it a useful substitute for evince. Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can have your own website for just $10+10+10! ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Changing PDF viewer by default

2010-06-21 Thread Lane Lester
. OTOH, I find I prefer slim distros that let me add the tools I actually need, rather than having some anonymous developer decide that for me. My main distro right now is Ubuntu Minimal CD. I made a script to apt-get my favorite apps after the distro is installed. Lane *Lane Lester* The Web

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Changing PDF viewer by default

2010-06-20 Thread Lane Lester
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: So, for now I'll prefer to use evince. I've certainly been pleased with evince, and I read a lot of PDFs. Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can have your own website for just $10+10+10

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Maverick Alpha 1

2010-06-15 Thread Lane Lester
. I thought about it for a while and then gave it the go-ahead. After rebooting, nothing is broken. Whew! Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can have your own website for just $10+10+10! Click here to visit one of my sites.http://pageswirl.com/rotate.php?user

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Maverick Alpha 1

2010-06-14 Thread Lane Lester
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: It works fine here with that one exception of having to use nomodeset to get it to boot. Exactly how do you use that? Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can have your own website

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Maverick Alpha 1

2010-06-14 Thread Lane Lester
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Maverick Alpha 1

2010-06-14 Thread Lane Lester
strange I didn't run into it with installs of Ubuntu Maverick (full), Ubuntu Maverick 32-bit Minimal CD, and Ubuntu Maverick 64-bit Minimal CD. Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can have your own website for just $10+10+10! Click here to visit one of my

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Maverick Alpha 1

2010-06-14 Thread Lane Lester
threatened to remove xorg at the same time. Then I added the xorg-edgers PPA repository, and I was able to add the driver. Plus, the latest xorg upgrades have not caused any problems. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Alpha 1?

2010-06-11 Thread Lane Lester
referring to, but one has cropped up in Maverick regarding xorg. For example, in a Ubuntu Minimal CD install I was playing with, I could have either xorg or nvidia drivers, but not both. Which basically meant I couldn't have X! I read this morning that a new xorg is going to be released soon. Lane *Lane

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [Discussion] Minitube in Lubuntu Maverick?

2010-05-29 Thread Lane Lester
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Leszek Lesner leszek.les...@web.de wrote: Youtube has HTML5 Video support. It works flawlessly on my eeepc 701 with 633 MHZ and 512 MB RAM with chromium. Although I often have Flash capability in *buntu, sometimes it quits on me. I appreciate learning about

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu application discussion for maverick

2010-05-14 Thread Lane Lester
not. Since most indy distros use old forks from Firefox which don't run the latest plugins, I found it interesting that Chromium is the default here. The plugins are coming fast for Chromium, but so far no InfoEnter, the FF plugin I rely on for storing oft-used information. Lane *Lane Lester

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu and high memory consumption

2010-05-13 Thread Lane Lester
conky with parameter ownwindow yes and I prefer conky's behavior when embedded in the desktop. EmelFM2 is my file manager of choice, so I didn't lose that function by disabling pcmanfm. Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com You can have your own website for just $10+10

[Lubuntu-desktop] A Newbie Question about Autostarting

2010-05-12 Thread Lane Lester
thing is the number of autostart folders and files. I managed to edit enough of them to get most things the way I want, but I still can't get alarmclock to start even though it runs fine from the menu. Is there an official Lubuntu way to autostart programs? Lane *Lane Lester* The Web Doctor

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu and high memory consumption

2010-05-12 Thread Lane Lester
That certainly got my attention, since I just switched from U Lucid to L Lucid in hopes of getting a slimmer system. But I can confirm your observations to some extent: Ubuntu Lucid: 157 MB Lubuntu Lucid: 138 MB... but I have pcmanfm disabled so I can run conky, and I have lxpanel disabled so I