Many things don't work on Ubuntu 10

Asked by Eugene MacCaslin

Why am I constantly having a problem with bacula

My monitor isn't detected
Youtube won't play songs
there are ads on a lot of sites that irritatingly flash
and the list goes on.
If it wasn't broken why did someone try to fix it.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Can you please give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

This will help us diagnose your flash issue.

Can you also give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

and we can diagnose your display issue.

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Eugene MacCaslin (ambhandyman-comcast) said :
#2

On 08/26/2010 04:13 PM, actionparsnip wrote:
> sudo lshw -C display
>
*-display UNCLAIMED
        description: VGA compatible controller
        product: K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro]
        vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
        physical id: 0
        bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
        version: 01
        width: 32 bits
        clock: 66MHz
        capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 bus_master cap_list
        configuration: latency=32 mingnt=2
        resources: memory:e8000000-ebffffff(prefetchable)
memory:ec000000-ecffffff memory:ed000000-ed00ffff(prefetchable)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

and the first command? Those S3 chrome things don't do 3D under Linux (no desktop effects) but you can at least get a decent resolution.

if you run:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

(the file will be blank) You can paste in this code:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter"
 Driver "openchrome"
 Option "DisableIRQ"
 Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
 Option "XaaNoImageWriteRect"
 Option "SWcursor"
 Option "DRI" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Generic Monitor"
 Option "DPMS"
 HorizSync 28-51
 VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Device "VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter"
 Monitor "Generic Monitor"
 DefaultDepth 24
 SubSection "Display"
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "Default Layout"
 Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
 Mode 0666
EndSection

Save the new file and close gedit, When you reboot you should have a better display. If its bad then boot to root recovery mode and rename the file (accessible by holding shift at boot, selecting recovery mode, then root)

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Eugene MacCaslin (ambhandyman-comcast) said :
#4

Thank You That got my display back where it was before I upgraded to 10

On 08/26/2010 04:44 PM, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #122907 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/122907
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> and the first command? Those S3 chrome things don't do 3D under Linux
> (no desktop effects) but you can at least get a decent resolution.
>
> if you run:
>
> gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> (the file will be blank) You can paste in this code:
>
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter"
> Driver "openchrome"
> Option "DisableIRQ"
> Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
> Option "XaaNoImageWriteRect"
> Option "SWcursor"
> Option "DRI" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Generic Monitor"
> Option "DPMS"
> HorizSync 28-51
> VertRefresh 43-60
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter"
> Monitor "Generic Monitor"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
>
>
> Save the new file and close gedit, When you reboot you should have a
> better display. If its bad then boot to root recovery mode and rename
> the file (accessible by holding shift at boot, selecting recovery mode,
> then root)
>
>

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#5

Is this now solved??

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