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["David Tremblay" <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

If you have installed ubuntu with a USB stick instead of a CD you must edit
your fstab because there's two entry for your cd-rom, please provide it here
so we can check


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Theresa <rockprinzess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hello! i've now freshly installed ubuntu hardy, and everything seems to
> work better than ever before, even wi-fi. wow.
>
> the only thing that still bothers me a lot is, when i plug in my usb
> device, it's not automatically mounted, like on my kubuntu machine, and this
> hasnt got anything to do with /etc/fstab, because on my kubuntu machine i
> havent edited the fstab file either and it still recognizes and mounts my
> usb stick automatically. hmmm
>
> when i plug it in, it says it cant mount it because it requires root
> rights. so eventually i have to mount it manually through the terminal. pain
> in the arse. :(
>
> do you have any advice for that to make my life with my eeepc more
> pleasurable :D
>
> thanks a lot :)
>
> theresa
>
> 2008/11/4 Dimitris Symeonidis <azimout@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> hi theresa,
>> which version of the eee do you have?
>> what you could try is log into a terminal and remove compiz and
>> compiz-core
>> tell us if this worked for you
>> good luck
>>
>> Dimitris Symeonidis
>> "If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with
>> a mosquito!" - Amnesty International
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 22:09, Theresa <rockprinzess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hello friends,
>> >
>> > I couldn't resist and thought i'd go for an upgrade to Ibex, as maybe it
>> > would solve my wi-fi issues. The upgrade finished and then i clicked to
>> > restart the system, after the restart everything worked fine until all
>> of
>> > the sudden the eeepc would restart once again, without me doing
>> anything.
>> > From then on I can't start it anymore. I can log in via tty2 and
>> tty3...for
>> > example i log in and then start GDM via
>> > sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
>> >
>> > then the GDM login screen appears, but I can't type anything or use the
>> > touchpad at all....the cursor just wouldn't move :(
>> >
>> > I then restart the whole machine, and it's a vicious cylce, the machine
>> > wouldn't start GDM by itself, and when i start it over sudo /etc/....
>> i'm
>> > not able to type anything.
>> >
>> > Please tell me this is not the end of the world, and that it's a known
>> issue
>> > :((((((
>> >
>> > I really really really shouldn't have upgraded, but everything seemed to
>> > work fine, so I don't know what the problem is. :(
>> >
>> > damn my curiosity.
>> >
>> > I'll appreciate any help! many thanks in advance!
>> >
>> > Theresa
>> >
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