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Karmic install cannot login (gdm freezes) Nvidia
On a fresh install of karmic, using an Nvidia 7800 GT. When I went to click on my username to log in, some artifacts would appear on the screen, then the system would freeze. hard. Couldnt even ctrl+alt to another console. Installing the Nvidia drivers fixed the issue. To fix it:
Do a hard reset on [...]
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Tethered Blackberry Modem on Ubuntu Karmic
Using your blackberry as a 3G (in my case) modem proved to be Incredibly simple. There are five million different methods to do this and many have you compiling stuff and editing text files. I love those sorts of things, but this is much easier. I Wish that I had tried this sooner.
**Confirmed using Blackberry [...]
Compiz desktop in Debian Squeeze
Getting compiz running on squeeze is surprising easy. Debian has included a document to help set it up, but there are a few little things necessary to get it to be usable.
1. Get the packages installed.
apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-main
2.Follow the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz to customize your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
3. restart gdm
/etc/init.d/gdm restart
4. open up a [...]
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Vmware – Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error.
Ran into this while running Vmware Workstation under Ubuntu Jaunty. I got an error while shutting down the machine through an NX session.
This is a result of a zombie ‘vmware-vmx’ process running. All you need to do is kill the process. This command sends ’signal 9′ to the process. When sent to a program, SIGKILL [...]
Debian eth0, eth1, eth2, in Virtualbox or VMware Virtual machines when copying