| BigLebowski | ortega10: Then how is the free codec less illegal, it'd have to be reverse engineered to find out how the codec works |
| sakobatoneko | the account that im using doesnt have sudo how can activate it |
| hasahotrod | poul^laptop: "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop" |
| Daem | For some reason, the Nvidia Xserver settings is not saving the resolution for the next time I login, can anyone point me in the right direction? |
| sakobatoneko | can someone help me |
| bayziders | can some one help me? |
| erUSUL | BigLebowski: but 'You distributed patented algorithms that decompress wma and you didn't pay us any royalties will hold up in court' |
| BigLebowski | sakobatoneko, add the username/group to the sudoers file. |
| foutrelis | Sakarias: By editing /etc/sudoers I think. |
| hasahotrod | does anyone know how to make gnome-power-manager use acpi instead of apm? |
| odat | can anyone help me get the java firefox plugin working |
| BigLebowski | erUSUL, if it was bundled with ubuntu, maybe, but thats a different story |
| Pollywog | sakobatoneko: I think you have to use the visudo command to do it |
| shadowhywind | hay all just installed nvidia for the 20th time, and it actraulyl is semi-working.. it takes 15-20 mins for KDE to start.. any ideas? |
| erUSUL | BigLebowski: see what happened with m$ and thomsom. m$ was condened to pay thomsom royalties for distributing mp3 codec |
| bayziders | no one knows what is wrong??? |
| IndyGunFreak | 15-20min?.. damn... use Gnome.. ;) |
| Dumahen | how can i get back my ubuntu ? it has some problem after update plzz help me ... |
| hasahotrod | erUSL: that's current;y being appealed |
| BigLebowski | erUSUL, as i said, thats bundling it with the distribution, thats different. |
| foutrelis | shadowhywind: Do you use the ones provided at nvidia.com? |
| shadowhywind | its a nvidia problem.. if i change xorg back to nv everything works fine |
| BigLebowski | Plenty of chinese device manufacturers seem to get away with it fine. |
| shadowhywind | foutrelis yes |
| msgmikeh | Hi, I am getting gibberish trying to install U 6.10. The CD boots up, I get to the orange background, with would looks like bad pixels all over the screen. Any one have any ideas? |
| shadowhywind | along with the ones in the repo's and the ones from the envy script all do the same thing |
| msgmikeh | with what rather.. not would |
| BigLebowski | I'd personally just convert to flac, but as with dvd and swf, i need nonfree stuff aswell. |
| bayziders | not a single one of you knows what is wrong O_O |
| shadowhywind | if i connect an external monitor up, everything works peftect, expect of course the laptop monitor just turns off |
| Pollywog | msgmikeh: have you tried the alternate install CD? |
| FireCat | jrib: Thanks, that worked beautifully, now I can run a chooser on another vt and don't need a kvm switch :) |
| BigLebowski | bayziders, whats up? |
| eilker | where is kept *.deb files ? in etc/apt ? |
| foutrelis | shadowhywind: I suggest you removed those drivers and use only the ones provided by nvidia.com |
| jrib | FireCat: great |
| Pollywog | eilker: /var/cache/apt/archive |
| IndyGunFreak | msgmikeh: i agree with Pollywog try the altnerate install cd |
| shadowhywind | the ones from nvidia.com do the same issues |