Posted by TechFiz on July 29, 2010
Okay, without discussing much of the technicalities behind this hack, I shall give you the steps to go ahead and get photon+ working on your machines. Step 1: Insert Photo+ onto your USB slot Step 2: Check for the product and vendor id using lsusb and keep a note # lsusb Bus 006 Device 007: [...]
Posted by TechFiz on July 4, 2010
Found a Broadcom wifi card facing problems after 2.6.31-20-generic-pae kernel upgrade on Ubuntu 10.04 (Dell Inspiron with a i3 processor) Trying to activate the driver via the System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers -> enable the Broadcom STA proprietary wireless driver route failed with an error in /var/log/jockey.log WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: [...]
Posted by TechFiz on March 17, 2010
For security reasons root login has been disabled in Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Here are the quick steps to enable root access to KDE 1. Edit kdmrc file in /etc/kde4/kdm and change AllowRootLogin=false to AllowRootLogin=true Use the following command line option to achieve this: #sudo sed -i ‘s/AllowRootLogin=false/AllowRootLogin=true/g’ 2. Set password for root account and enable it. To [...]
Posted by TechFiz on March 14, 2010
Long back I had changed my theme to MacOS theme on my Ubuntu. Since then, my metacity theme retained the windows controls on left hand side and it never changed for any theme since then. I did try looking for an easy option to revert that change but found none in appearance windows. You got [...]
Posted by TechFiz on November 10, 2009
Looking for a video editor on your linux box? Here is the best one. OpenShotVideoEditor is just awesome!, stable and does all that you need. Installing OpenShot is quite simple as it comes with a custom PPA: Here are the details of this PPA (Detailed Instructions): deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonoomph/openshot-edge/ubuntu karmic main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonoomph/openshot-edge/ubuntu karmic main Signing [...]
Posted by TechFiz on November 6, 2009
You might have been searching for instructions to reinstall grub after upgrading or reinstalling Windows on your systems to get your Ubuntu booting once again. Here are the steps. Boot to the 9.10 Karmic LiveCD Desktop. Open a terminal - Applications, Accessories, Terminal. Determine your normal system partition – (the switch is a lowercase “L”) sudo fdisk [...]