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[Ilya Haykinson <haykinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

I also recommend searching online to see what problems people tend to
experience with Ubuntu, and looking at other books/articles on the topic.
For example, see the list at

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=667418

(it's from a copyrighted book, so please don't copy anything out of there)

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-fix-most-common-linux-problems

I'm sure that there are other forums, FAQs, and lists that show what
problems people commonly experience.

>From personal experience, I would recommend we cover:

 - wrong video resolution
 - no sound
 - printing problem
 - can't get online

-ilya

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Gidday,
>
> Cheers Jamin for answering :)
>
> Yeah basically Elan the aim for Chapter 9 is to pretty much answer a lot of
> the commonly asked questions that you find floating around the Absolute
> Beginner forum on UF. These are things like "how do I enable flash" "I can't
> play .wmv or .mp3s" etc etc
>
> I've just created a wiki page for you to act as your "sandpit"
>
> Go nuts, think of some questions - trawl the absolute beginner forum, ask
> on IRC, post a bug on our project page and ask the other team members to
> suggest questions on that wiki page. Email the mailing list.
>
> Do whatever you need to do to get a good 10 to 20 questions that you think
> would be suitable for the manual. You're in charge of this chapter! Once
> you've got some questions, ask one of us to check it and then you can start
> sticking them in the manual and writing solutions.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Troubleshooting
>
> Cheers,
> Benjamin Humphrey
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Jamin Day <jaminday+ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx<jaminday%2Bubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Elan,
>>
>> The aim for this section is to build the chapter around providing some
>> tips/solutions to common problems that new Ubuntu users often run into. We
>> are not talking mega-complex things here, it will be more like "why can't I
>> dual-boot anymore after reinstalling windows (ie restoring GRUB)", or "why
>> can't I write to folder XYZ (ie setting permissions)" etc (just examples).
>>
>> As far as I know, some research is currently being done into what the most
>> useful topics will be, although I'm not sure where this is up to. Benjamin
>> will have some more info on this I'm sure.
>>
>> We definitely do need someone to head up the writing of this chapter. I
>> think for now, clarification on exactly what topics will be included in it
>> is the main priority, so to begin with any ideas/assistance you can offer
>> would be great.
>>
>> JaminDay
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Elan Kugelmass <functionofxy@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm interested in helping get the manual done, and even in taking the
>>> lead on chapter 9, but I don't know exactly what the dream is for this
>>> chapter.
>>> The blueprint specification is devoid of information.
>>>
>>> Can someone give me some pointers? Thanks
>>>
>>> Elan
>>>
>>>
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