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"HWCursor False" did actually turn off the mouse cursor in X for me and
introduced a lot of artifacts when the (invisible) cursor highlighted
menu's in ubuntu.
If you can handle a visible cursor I'd keep it "True"
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2009-08-21, 19:53
(This post was last modified: 2009-08-21, 19:59 by akmofo.)
I followed this set of instructions, and had pretty successful results. Some things I'd add:
1.)I didn't realize you were doing everything through SSH, but this makes a lot more sense now when you did killed GDM, and I lost access to the GUI.
2.)I set the power management screen-off setting to "Never" rather than the default of 40 mins.
3.)I disabled the lock setting in gconf-editor so that when I resume from standby/hibernate it doesn't ask for a password.
Open gconf-editor
Go to apps / gnome-power-manager
Uncheck "lock_on_suspend" and "lock on hibernate"
4.)I'd recommend using the SVN at this point rather than the "stable version", because the stable version has the bug where you can't access the Audio settings OSD, or hit the "o" key without crashing the program.
5.)Still haven't gotten my wireless USB dongle to work properly yet. It's a Netgear WNDA3300. The ar9170 seems to work but I can only find an older-build of it, and signal strength is terrible. The updated driver is supposed to be included in the next Kernel, so hopefully that will fix it. Luckily I have a Ethernet to Wireless-N bridge to use in the interim.
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akmofo
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I saw where you installed SSH, but it didn't dawn on me how much easier it is to use when copying and pasting into it from another computer.
I was using VNC most the time, and it was admittedly, kind of a pain in the ass.
If I did it again, I would definitely use SSH over VNC.
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does anyone know how I can install the latest Nvidia drivers for the Asrock such as nvidia-glx-190 - the version I have now is nvidia-glx-185
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Thanks a lot for this guide! I installed XBMC using my computer monitor and everything seemed perfect. The only problem I have now is that Ubuntu will not seem to recognize my TV when connected with VGA. My Panasonic PV-70 only support 1:1 pixel mapping on VGA (HDMI results in serious overscan). In NVIDIA control panel the screen is set to 'CRT-0 (CRT 0 on GPU 0)', and the screen resolution is set to 640x480. I have no options to change these settings. The NVIDIA driver version is 185.18.31. Any proposals ?
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Problem is that I haven't done any troubleshooting at all with NVIDIA. With my old (very) TV and htpc with ATI it was hell to get to work over TV out. Now with the ASROCK and brand new full HD TV (? well brand new anyway) I have no problem.
It sounds like it should be possible to fix this with NVIDIA setting from the desktop. Did you try to re-run the nvidia config command?
BTW, I do know one thing. Don't have the VGA connected when trying HDMI. It screws up the resolution.
Connect only one cable and screen and re-run the config.
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You have downloaded from NVIDIA?
You need to remove the PPA installation first then you just follow the instruction from the NVIDIA website.
to remove
sudo apt-get purge xxxxxxx-185
sudo reboot
You can also try the 180 version from PPA. I am running that my self for the moment
sudo apt-get install xxxxx-180
(xxxx-190 for that matter)