sudo chvt 1 && sudo chvt 7 = screen wakey wakey from CLI - useful for a screen shot while away from home, for example.

NetworkManager to work without a UI open, you need a global connection and you do it like this:



Note permissions need to be:



And you start it like this:



References:

http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManage ... ec-08.html
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings

I constructed the above file line for line from a user connection which is in a totally different format. I couldn't find an automatic way to translate them, either, but this was the source:



As you can see, each file corresponds to a section in the flat file. Some entries are somehow empty/null, you don't need to include those for it to work.

And yes, I'm fully aware that these are real security details, good luck to whoever finds the router that they belong to! :-p

Fred.

If by "partially" you mean, as it looks, to add the minimum Nvidia support to a default xorg.conf file, you can run nvidia-xconfig (part of the nvidia-current package) on the command line as root or via sudo. Restart the greeter or computer and X will launch with the proprietary module and 3D support loaded.

If anyone uses an older Ubuntu, such as Lucid for its current LTS status, be warned that there's a race condition where the greeter may try to load before the nvidia kernel module and result in a series of "low graphics" prompts as it drops into failsafe. This has been especially temperamental on Macs at cold start for some reason. A number kludges exist which call for delaying the greeter (kdm, gdm, etc.) by a matter of seconds, though it appears they refused to correct the issue until later Ubuntu releases.

Bug report conclusion: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/491483/comments/102.


-Jeff

No, I meant more generally, as in, just adjust one module for some reason, such as mouse or driver or whatever, without affecting the other auto stuff. Dropping a full config in place destroys the auto stuff, and isn't a nice approach. I just never looked for it until I got to this :-)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586751

upowerd author you are a CUNT, you have wasted THREE days of my time now. I am now going to email you about this and abuse you. Not happy. Preston just suffered from this FUCKING BULLSHIT again tonight.

http://issues.freeems.org/view.php?id=521

Prestons time wasted. Wear and tear on vehicle. Logs worthless. Silently fucking everything up. You cock!

Recorded here for others to find, keywords:

ftdi usb serial corruption hogs hogging hog detect detected watts up pro udev rule rules ubuntu debian ARSEHOLE UNBELIEVABLE STUPIDITY

Fred.

Closed, resolved, fixed. Send future complaints to Richard Hughes using this address: hughsient@gmail.com

Finally, I'd like to emphasize how this was listed on my Deb system with apt-cache show:


And in living colour:


Preston was on skype with me while I was diagnosing and dealing with this for him and can vouch for the level of my rage and the quantity of lost time. Hung drawn and quartered is how that dude would be if he were here right now.

Fred.

Two things:

Removing it seems to break Gnome in Ubuntu 11.?

It didn't solve the issue, it was a driver issue in Ubuntu, though it could have been two issues.


Fred.

Got a lot of these:


Every ten seconds! Did this:

I installed bootchart2, and found some huge obvious issues, but didn't fix anything yet. Some links, doing a browser clean up...

https://github.com/mmeeks/bootchart
http://lgallardo.com/en/2009/07/08/arra ... an-14-sec/
http://www.debian-administration.org/ar ... 14_seconds
http://maketecheasier.com/linux-startup ... 2011/03/03