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Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS released

2010-08-18T10:54:00.000+05:30

The Ubuntu team has announced the release of Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, the first maintenance update to Ubuntu's 10.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.
Numerous updates have been integrated, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

To Get Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
-------------------------

To download Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, or obtain CDs, visit:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are available at:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004

About Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
------------------------

This is the first maintenance release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which continues to be supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until April 2013 on desktops and April 2015 on servers.

Numerous post-release updates have been integrated, and a number of bugs

in the installation system have been corrected. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

See http://www.ubuntu.com/usn for a full list of Ubuntu security updates.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu for specific information about a particular bug number. A complete list of post-release updates will be made available tomorrow at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/10.04.1

The official guide to Slackware Linux

2010-08-09T19:50:00.000+05:30

Slackware Linux Essentials

Slackware Linux Essentials is an indispensible resource that you will want to have by your side at all times. It contains the most complete and up-to-date information available on the Slackware Linux Operating System. A must-have reference guide you have been waiting for, it delivers everything you need to get started with Slackware Linux, including straightforward explanations of important programs and step-by-step instructions to guide you through the Slackware installation process. You too can become an expert on this powerful OS by reading about its history and capabilities.

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Build custom Linux systems from Scratch

2010-07-28T16:52:00.000+05:30

Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need.

This 318 page eBook provides readers with the background and instruction to design and build custom Linux systems. This eBook highlights the Linux from Scratch project and the benefits of using this system. Users can dictate all aspects of their system, including directory layout, script setup, and security. The resulting system will be compiled completely from the source code, and the user will be able to specify where, why, and how programs are installed. This eBook allows readers to fully customize Linux systems to their own needs and allows users more control over their system.

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Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

2010-07-23T10:50:00.000+05:30

An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting.

This guide assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little nuggets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts. This book is also suitable for classroom use as a general introduction to programming concepts.

The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of 974 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 364 profusely commented illustrative examples, a number of tables, and a cross-linked index/glossary. Not just a shell scripting tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic programming techniques, such as sorting and recursion. It is well suited for either individual study or classroom use. It covers Bash, up to and including version 4.0.

Reveal or find (view) your invisible friends in your Gtalk(gmail chat) buddy list

2010-07-16T20:05:00.003+05:30

Every time when you have logged into your gtalk you would have thought of seeing the friends who are invisible. Here is a small trick. The bellow peace of python code get the list of invisible users from your GTalk buddy list. It uses XMPP module for python. You can install this module in Ubuntu/Debian via apt. It also requires python dns module.

So , Next time do not let anyone fool you , rather catch him Invisibly .

Click here to get the procedure and code.

VIM: Search the Current File

2010-07-08T22:47:00.006+05:30

Even though your file might not be that long, it can still be a pain to find something you are looking for. Vim has several ways to help you find what you are looking for.

Find next occurrence of a word

Search for a word by executing the following command in normal mode:

?someWord

The command searches backwards in the file for the first occurrence of the word after the question mark. If you are at the end of the file, this is the perfect way to search for a word, but if you were at the beginning of the file it would make more sense to search forward in the file. This is done by exchanging the question mark for a slash:

/someWord

The word might be in the file several times, and maybe the first place you found wasn't the place you were looking for. No worries, you simply need to press n to go to the next occurrence of the word in the direction of the search. If you would rather change direction, then simply press N instead, and it will instead find the preceding occurrence of the word.

If you want to do the same search again, simply use ?? or // instead of writing the entire word again.

Search for word under cursor

If you are already near one occurrence of the word you are looking for, but it is just not the right one, or maybe you want to look through all places where a certain word is used, and the word is already written, why use extra key presses on writing the word again? Vim has just the right commands for you. Place the cursor on or just in front of the word you want to search for and press either one of the following two keys in normal mode:

The first one searches for the previous occurrence of the word under the cursor, and the second one searches for the next occurrence of the word. Pressing the key multiple times jumps to the next/previous occurrence of the word, over and over again. This makes it really fast to jump through all occurrences of the word.

Maybe your word isn't actually a complete word, but just a part of a word. Vim also has a command for this. Simply press the following key combination in normal mode:

Now Vim does not just jump to the next occurrence of the word, but also to any occurrences where the word is part of another word. For example, placing the cursor on the word "foo" and pressing g# will make Vim jump to the next "foo", in both "foobar" and "food."

credit: http://core-tips.com/2010/07/09/vim-search-the-current-file/

MediaInfo: Get extended information about media files

2010-07-08T12:58:00.008+05:30

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
What information can I get from MediaInfo?

General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
Text: language of subtitle
Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters

What format (container) does MediaInfo support?

Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...
(Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...)
Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...

What can I do with it?

Read many video and audio file formats
Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
You can customise these views
Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...
Graphical Interface, Command Line, or DLL
Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)
Internationalisation: Any language display on any version of your operating system
Localisation capability (but volunteers needed)

Installation
In ubuntu (9.10 and 10.04)
you can install it from the MediaInfo PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shiki/mediainfo
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mediainfo

Others see http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download

VIM: Faster navigation in a file

2010-07-08T00:07:00.000+05:30

Sometimes even the simplest of tasks like navigating through a single file can be optimized. Vim offers several methods of navigation within a file, which can adapt to the contents of the file and how it is organized. Some of these methods are obvious, while others are more complex.

Mostly, the files we are editing are well structured. If our files are text, then this structure can be in the form of paragraphs, sentences, and words, or at other times code with functions, blocks, and code lines.

Vim supports jumping around the file, according to the structure in the file, and has key bindings that make it easy to go to the exact place in the file where you want to go.

Moving within a text file

You are working on a normal text file and in the middle of a sentence you realize that you have forgotten to make the first letter in the paragraphs uppercase. You could of course, use the arrow-keys or the h/j/k/l navigation keys to move to the beginning of the paragraph to correct this. It would, however, be faster to just press the following in normal mode:

{

You are now placed at the beginning of the paragraph—or in the empty line just above it (if one exists). Now, you go into normal mode by pressing the Esc key and then use the movement command { to go to the beginning of the paragraph. The same can be applied if you want to go back to the end of the paragraph—you simply have to use the counterpart of {, namely:

}

Again, Vim helps you move faster and offers you a pair of commands to move to the beginning and end of the current sentence. The commands are as follows:

( : Move to the beginning of the sentence.

) : Move to the end of the sentence.

w : Move to the beginning of the next word.

b : Move to the beginning of the previous word.

e : Move to the end of the word.

These commands can be combined such that if you want to go to the end of the next word you simply press:

Moving in a Code file
Compared to text files, code does not have any paragraphs or sentences to navigate through. It does, however, frequently contain a lot of structures and blocks, each of which has a very specific contextual meaning within the code. An example could be the simple code block:
If( a == b) {
print "a and b are the same";
}
Here the line with print is within the context of the if block surrounding it.
Because Vim is the favorite editor of many programmers, it offers a lot of movement commands to use when you are working with code. Common for all of them is that the parts of the code you want to jump between need to have a contextual connection to each other.
A simple example could be a construction like the #if-#else-#endif construction from the C programming language. Here we have a beginning (#if), an end (#endif) and a midpoint (#else).
So if you are in the line with #if and press the following command:
%
you will go to the #else part. Pressing it again, will take you to the #endif, and yet another execution of the command will get you back to the #if.
Vim does not know all programming language constructs, but by default it knows most of the contextual constructs of the C programming language. Besides this, it knows the normal block construction methods from most programming languages—the use of parentheses and brackets (for example, '{' is block start and '}' is block end).

So for Vim to find the beginning of the function, it simply has to find the outermost bracket pair and then go to the
opening bracket.
function myExample() {
...many lines of code...
/* cursor is placed at the beginning of this line */
...many lines of code...
}
In the above example, the % command would take us to the closing bracket and pressing it again would take us to the opening bracket. But what if the cursor was actually placed inside another pair of brackets? In that case, the % command would only move the cursor to them, and not the beginning of the function.
Again Vim has some handy commands for you:

[[ and ][ : Move backwards/forward to the next section beginning (e.g., start of a function)
[] and ]] : Move backwards/forward to the next section end (e.g., end of a function)

Executing these commands multiple times in a row takes you to the beginning/end of the next/previous section, and therefore gives you a convenient way of cycling through the functions in a file.

[{ : Move to the beginning of the block
]} : Move to the end of the block

[/ : Move to the beginning of the comment block
]/ : Move to the end of the comment block

How to speed up boot of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

2010-07-04T09:55:00.006+05:30

Use profiling to speed up boot.
By using profile, a profile of your boot is kept to make your next boot faster.
After a couple of boots, a better profile would be ready for your machine.

Follow the steps below for that:
1. Edit your grub

$ sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
You can find the lines



GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release  -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet profile"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
 
add profile to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" as shown above.

2. Now Update your grub2.

Type this in your terminal



sudo update-grub2

3. Reboot.

4. Now edit the grub once again and remove the word profile that we added. Update grub(sudo update-grub2) and then reboot.

Boot up ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx faster (speed up boot)

2010-06-30T12:54:00.002+05:30

Ubuntu reached the 10 second boot time with Lucid Lynx. what if your system isn’t quite reaching that point?

You can speed it up using profiling option. To do this follow these steps:

At your boot screen press “e” (for edit).
Use your arrow key and move down to the entry beginning with “kernel”.
Press “e” again.
Add “profile” (no quotes) at the end of this line.
Hit Enter.
Click “b” (for boot).

The firs time you boot with profile it will take a little longer. What this is doing is profiling your boot process so it knows what files are accessed and then sorts them according to how they are stored on your drive. Your next boot should be considerably faster.

Extra Tip:- By disabling Floppy disk in Bios will improve your boot time considerably.

src: http://www.aroundtheweb.info/2010/04/how-tospeed-up-ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx.html

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2010-06-25T08:22:00.000+05:30

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Linux Email – Free Sample Chapter, Free Packt Enterprise eBook Excerpt

2010-06-24T23:41:00.000+05:30

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Set up, maintain, and secure a small office email server.

Many businesses want to run their email servers on Linux for greater control and flexibility of corporate communications, but getting started can be complicated. The attractiveness of a free-to-use and robust email service running on Linux can be undermined by the apparent technical challenges involved.

Insider's Guide to Internet Marketing: Get. Convert. Measure

2010-06-23T21:33:00.004+05:30

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2010-06-18T15:48:00.003+05:30

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How to disable the gnome shutdown notification in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

2010-06-10T11:38:00.001+05:30

Command line

Simply enter the command below in your terminal window

sudo gconftool-2 -s '/apps/indicator-session/suppress_logout_restart_shutdown' --type bool true

Graphical
Press Alt-F2, enter gconf-editor,
navigate to apps-->indicator-session and check the box next to suppress_logout_restart_shutdown

Install Skype in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx from official partner repository

2010-05-26T16:21:00.007+05:30

Skype has just been uploaded to the "partner" official Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx repository.

So you can now install skype in your ubuntu 10.04 without downloading the setup files from skype.

So to install Skype in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx from the partner repository, go to System > Administration > Software Sources and on the "Other software" tab, enable (check the box next to it) the "http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner" repository.
Now type

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install skype

Enjoy using skype.

See http://linux.dipin.info/2010/03/resolve-skype-video-chat-web-cam-issue.html to solve your webcam issues.

How to Install Adobe PDF Reader 9.3 in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-14T13:10:00.015+05:30

Adobe Reader is a famous pdf reader.
Command line way:


$ wget http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.3.2/enu/AdbeRdr9.3.2-1_i386linux_enu.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.3.2-1_i386linux_enu.deb

Non Command Line:


Download the deb file for 32-bit linux os from here.
Just double click the .deb file you just downloaded to install adobe reader.

Enjoy!

Upgrade To Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: No internet, no problem

2010-05-06T07:21:00.003+05:30

Upgrade To Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Without An Internet Connection

Well, if you don't have an Internet connection, you can still upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, but you'll need to download the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx alternate CD somehow. You can download the Ubuntu Alternate ISO from HERE.

Then, you can then either write the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alternate ISO onto a CD or simply mount the ISO image using the following command:

$ sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso /media/cdrom0

Give exact path to "ubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso" if your are not in the directory where you have saved the alternate cd image.
Once you insert the CD or mount the ISO image, a dialog should pop up offering you the option to upgrade using that CD / ISO image.

If of any reason the pop up doesn't come, you can start the upgrade manually by typing the command below.

$ gksu "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"

UNP: Now extract any archives without any worries

2010-05-06T06:41:00.006+05:30

Many of us may know how to extract a .Tar.gz file. But how many of us know how to extract a .bz2, .lz, etc files. Some extra option to tar will do the needfull, but we will need to know the options for each type of archive.

But no worries any more. You can now use 'unp', a script that extract any type of archive by itself.
To extract any archive just type:

$ unp archive_file
where "archive_file" can be a rar, zip, tar.gz, deb,
tar.gz2, rpm or any other archive.

The best thing is that you can use unp to extract multiple types of archives at the same time.
example:

$ unp *.tar *.tar.gz *.tar.bz *.rpm *.deb *.zip *.rar

To extract all the archive files in the current directory:

$ unp *

Install unp

$ sudo apt-get install unp

Multimedia codes (libdvdcss2 , w32codecs, w64codecs), vlc, mplayer, audacity for ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx

2010-05-05T08:05:00.008+05:30

To setup your ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx for multimedia see my post:
How to make Ubnutu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Multimedia Ready

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2010-05-05T07:27:00.001+05:30

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apt-rdepends: How to know the dependencies of a package in Ubuntu

2010-05-03T01:06:00.004+05:30

I am sure that this might have happened to you also, when you tried to install a package, and then a message showed "Failed dependencies".

Now use apt-rdepends to know the dependencies and their dependencies of a package.
When we make a query for dependencies of a package, apt-rdepends searches the APt and return the list of dependencies and the dependencies of each dependent package. insatll

Install apt-rdepends

$ sudo apt-get install apt-rdepends

Lets see the dependencies of vlc

$ sudo apt-rdepends vlc
vlc
  Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5)
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8)
  Depends: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2)
  Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1)
  Depends: libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2)
  Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1)
  Depends: libgl1
  Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx
  Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0)
  Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0)
  Depends: libnotify1 (>= 0.4.5)
  Depends: libnotify1-gtk2.10
  Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.6.1)
  Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1)
  Depends: libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.5)
  Depends: libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1)
  Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1)
  Depends: libtar
  Depends: libvlccore2 (>= 1.0.0~rc1)
  Depends: libx11-6 (0)
  Depends: libx264-85
  Depends: libxcb-keysyms1 (>= 0.3.6)
  Depends: libxcb1 (0)
  Depends: libxext6 (0)
  Depends: libxinerama1
  Depends: libxv1
  Depends: libxxf86vm1
  Depends: ttf-dejavu-core
  Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.0.6-1ubuntu1)
  Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg)
libaa1
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11)
  Depends: libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4)
  Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3)
  Depends: libslang2 (>= 2.0.7-1)
  Depends: libx11-6 (0)
libc6
  Depends: debconf (>= 0.5)
  Depends: debconf-2.0
  Depends: findutils (>= 4.4.0-2ubuntu2)
  Depends: libc-bin (= 2.11.1-0ubuntu7)
  Depends: libgcc1
  Depends: tzdata
debconf
  Depends: debconf-english
  Depends: debconf-i18n
  PreDepends: perl-base (>= 5.6.1-4)
debconf-english
  Depends: debconf
debconf-i18n
  Depends: debconf
  Depends: liblocale-gettext-perl
  Depends: libtext-charwidth-perl
  Depends: libtext-iconv-perl
  Depends: libtext-wrapi18n-perl
liblocale-gettext-perl
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2)
  PreDepends: perl-base (>= 5.10.0-24ubuntu4)
  PreDepends: perlapi-5.10.0
perl-base
  PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.14.20)
  PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.11)
dpkg
  PreDepends: coreutils (>= 5.93-1)
  PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.11)
  PreDepends: lzma
coreutils
  PreDepends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1)
  PreDepends: libattr1 (>= 2.4.41-1)
  PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.11)
  PreDepends: libselinux1 (>= 1.32)
libacl1
  Depends: libattr1 (>= 2.4.41-1)
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
libattr1
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
libselinux1
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8)
lzma
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
  Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1)
  Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0)
libgcc1
  Depends: gcc-4.4-base (= 4.4.3-4ubuntu5)
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4)
gcc-4.4-base
libstdc++6
  Depends: gcc-4.4-base (= 4.4.3-4ubuntu5)
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
  Depends: libgcc1
perlapi-5.10.0
libtext-charwidth-perl
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3)
  Depends: perl-base (>= 5.10.0-24ubuntu4)
  Depends: perlapi-5.10.0
libtext-iconv-perl
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3)
  Depends: perl-base (>= 5.10.0-24ubuntu4)
  Depends: perlapi-5.10.0
libtext-wrapi18n-perl
  Depends: libtext-charwidth-perl
debconf-2.0
findutils
  PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
libc-bin
tzdata
  Depends: debconf (>= 0.5)
  Depends: debconf-2.0
libgpm2
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
libncurses5
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
libslang2
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
libx11-6
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
  Depends: libx11-data
  Depends: libxcb1 (>= 1.2)
libx11-data
libxcb1
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
  Depends: libxau6
  Depends: libxdmcp6
libxau6
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
libxdmcp6
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
libdbus-1-3
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
libfreetype6
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
  Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
zlib1g
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
libfribidi0
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
libgl1
libgl1-mesa-glx
  Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4)
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
  Depends: libdrm2 (>= 2.3.1)
  Depends: libx11-6 (0)
  Depends: libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1)
  Depends: libxext6 (0)
  Depends: libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1)
  Depends: libxxf86vm1
libdrm2
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
libxdamage1
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3)
  Depends: libx11-6
  Depends: libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1)
libxfixes3
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Enjoy Linux.

Fix ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx black screen on bootup issue

2010-05-01T09:19:00.003+05:30

You can face this issue in two conditions.

1. Those who have installed ubuntu 10.04 might encountered this problem. The screen goes blank just after grub (may be after bios startup, if grub timeout early).

Please follow the steps below to fix it.
Press e on getting the GRUB bootloader(if not getting grub, press and hold shift key to get grub).
Go to the line which says 'quiet and splash', delete these words and type in one of the option from below in their place.

The suggested options that I have found are hardware specific.
Here is a list:

Older Intel video card: i915.modeset=1 or i915.modeset=0

nVidia: nomodeset

Generic: xforcevesa

Now press Ctrl + X to boot
Now login to your Ubuntu as usual.
If you have a Nvidia graphics card, this may be the issue with it,
Now goto System->Administration->Hardware drivers, and select and activate the nvidia current driver if you have an nvidia card. The driver will be downloaded and activated automatically, and you will be prompted for a reboot.

2. Blank screen on bootup after Upgrade from 9.10 -> 10.4,

A solution for this is not found, i am on it. Maybe upgrading to a new kernel will do it.

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2010-05-01T09:00:00.002+05:30

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How to play video dvd in Ubnutu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

2010-05-01T01:31:00.005+05:30

Install the libdvdcss library.

# sudo su -
# apt-get install  libdvdcss2
# apt-get install libdvdread4
# cd /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/
# ./install-css.sh

If it says that the package is not found then try them again after executing the below lines:
add medibuntu repositories in your sources list

$ sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list
$ sudo apt-get --quiet update

$ sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
$ sudo apt-get --quiet update

Enjoy!