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  4. Install ATI drivers for Radeon X800XL under Ubuntu 9.10

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted · Edited by Falcon1986

    I was recently able to successfully install Ubuntu 9.10 onto my desktop. This is the first version to work properly with it. Previous versions probably had problems with the ATI Radeon X800XL PCI-e graphics card. Unfortunately, I cannot select a screen resolution above 1024x768. My monitor can support a maximum of 1280x1024 within Windows XP and it would be great to have that in Ubuntu as well.

    The first thing I did upon booting into Ubuntu was to visit 'Hardware Drivers' to see if there were any driver suggestions. However, there were absolutely none available.

    Do you know of a guide out there that will walk me through the manual installation of the drivers? Or perhaps you know of another solution to the problem. I would greatly appreciate the feedback. Thanks.

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    ADDENDUM

    Linux kernel: 2.6.31-17

    OS: Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit)

    $ lspci -nn | grep VGA
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc R430 [Radeon X800 XL] (PCIe) [1002:554d]

  8. Where to place the Ubuntu 9.10 bootloader

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    Thanks for the reply, 'iccaros'. I got it sorted out. Wow, am I relieved!

    Yes, I have 3 physical disks on the desktop. I was attempting to install Ubuntu 9.10 via UNetBootin on the same disk as Windows XP, such that Windows occupied 120GB and Ubuntu occupied the remaining 40GB. At the 'Advanced Options' screen just before finalizing the installation, I saw that I could change the installation location of the bootloader, but I left it at /dev/sda. In retrospect, I should have probably changed that to the Ubuntu /boot partition because I remember doing so on my Vista laptop so as to avoid tampering with the Vista bootloader. On that occasion I just used EasyBCD from within Windows to point the Vista menu entry to the relevant Linux boot partition. Unfortunately, I can't get EasyBCD to run in XP; perhaps an older version will.

    Anyway, after no success with the Windows Recovery Console, I booted UBCD > Seagate DiskWizard and used 'Update MBR' to fix the Seagate disk. And it worked! Rebooting took me into Windows XP! :D

    This was quite a learning experience. I was looking into the Super Grub Disk tool, but that seemed a little too complicated for me, still being new to Linux. Also discovered that one of my disks needs error-checking thanks to a background disk utility found in Ubuntu 9.10.

  9. Where to place the Ubuntu 9.10 bootloader

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted · Edited by Falcon1986

    [Original question edited out.]

    After installing Ubuntu 9.10 the desktop rebooted, but always loads Memtest. I cannot even boot into Windows XP, which is installed on the same disk as Ubuntu, just on a different partition.

    How do I fix this? I have tried using my Windows XP CD's Recovery Console to do fixmbr and fixboot to no avail. I do not mind losing Ubuntu, but I do not want to have to lose XP.

    Thanks in advance for your help.

  11. I Need A Website To Host A Lot Of Videos

    in Website Design & SEO Help

    Posted

    I recommend using a web host that allows unlimited bandwidth and storage such as HostMonster or BlueHost and then installing a video-sharing CMS (Content Management System) such as this one: http://plone.org/products/plumi

    I am a HostMonster customer myself, and I can say that using their web hosting service for video storage and streaming on such a large scale may be considered a violation of their TOS.

    Secondly, when running such a multimedia-rich website, you may find out that "unlimited" does not mean what you think it does. Look at some of the threads on the forum for user comments.

  13. Graphic Glitch Problem

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    Since you seem to be able to run the games fine under Linux but not on Windows, I would think something was wrong with your drivers. Did you properly uninstall ALL traces of the old drivers before installing another version? Driver Sweeper works great for this.

    While you are at it, you may also want to reinstall your motherboard's chipset drivers.

    Games that require 3D acceleration will trigger graphics cards to work harder. Therefore, strange glitches as a result of overheating are usually only seen when the GPU is put under stress. Is the graphics card cooling unit free of dust? Does the fan spin without too much loud noise, especially when playing games?

    In the photograph of your monitor, I notice that you have vertical black bars on the screen. Do these appear when you encounter the problem or is that how your screen is normally set? The reason I ask is because my old CRT monitor would resize frequently before it died and I would get some weird lines showing up on the screen. After switching to an LCD, I no longer have that problem.

  18. 301 Redirect And Nofollow Links

    in Website Design & SEO Help

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    As I understand it, I should move the files on my site from http://mydomain.com to http://www.mydomain.com for SEO puporses? Would I have to move all the links there? Right now my site is at http://mydomain.com and I've used it for linking quite a bit, so should I set up a 301 redirect or just keep it like it is? How exactly should I do it?

    The reason that many SEO articles recommend using either non-www or www is usually because they are considering that http://mydomain.com can be interpreted as being completely different from http://www.mydomain.com from a search engine's perspective. Stick to one convention and use it in all the links you provide. Since you have been using http://mydomain.com for quite some time now, you should not try to change anything now. What you can do for those visitors who come to your website via http://www.mydomain.com is to use a permanent 301 redirect to the non-www version. That way, things remain consistent with your non-www.

    A permanent 301 redirect from the www version to the non-www version can be done by some .htaccess statements. Ensure that this is the .htaccess file that resides in the root web directory. Replace 'mydomain' and '.com' with your domain name's details.

    RewriteEngine on
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    With the nofollow issue, I see a lot of sites tell you how to remove your nofollow links with plugins and stuff, but I don't quite understand how to add nofollow links in. Pretty much everyone says that Wordpress is set up to automatically make links (specifically comments) nofollow, but mine wasn't set up like that for some reason (maybe because I used GoDaddy to install it?) and I don't want all the comments to be dofollow links like they are now. Is there any code I can insert to make the comment links nofollow?

    This has nothing to do with your web hosting provider. For what you are talking about I use the WordPress Tweaks plugin and the Platinum SEO plugin. These plugins will also help you with a host of other SEO tweaks. Although nofollow/noindex/etc. can be set for general things through the plugin's "Settings" panel, these options are also added to individual posts/pages so you can have more control.

  20. Setting Up A Ubuntu Webserver To Test Wordpress

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted · Edited by Falcon1986

    EDIT - Please disregard. Seems as though the default files contained within the www folder are locked but can be deleted. I can create and edit new files. ^_^

    It's me again!

    So I got Apache2, MySQL and PHP5 installed successfully using the guide I found here specifically for Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop.

    However, I can't seem to assign my username to the www-data group that the tutorial instructs me to make. I believe something is wrong with the command...

    useradd falcon1986 www-data

    ...because I always get a list of possible options that the command should contain. I also came across an alternative using usermod...

    usermod -a -G www-data falcon1986

    ...but that does not help at all. It returns saying that I am already a member of that group. If it matters any, I noticed the same thing through GUI of System > Administration > Users and Groups. I have logged out and logged back in on every attempt, but whenever I try to edit files in /home/falcon1986/www I get the warning...

    Could not save the file /home/falcon1986/www/index.html.

    You do not have the permissions necessary to save the file. Please check that you typed the location correctly and try again.

    ...and the file icons themselves have a padlock emblem on them.

    How do I get around this? Thanks for your input.

  23. Setting Up A Ubuntu Webserver To Test Wordpress

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    Hello all!

    I have a Ubuntu 8.10 32-bit desktop installation on my laptop that I would like to use for testing some WordPress stuff before transferring to my Linux-based web host. I found a guide on how to set up a LAMP server. Although this will be a "testing" environment, I don't want the server to start every time I log into Ubuntu.

    I have never run virtualization software before, but do you think that would be the best way to go with this? I am thinking about using VirtualBox within Ubuntu then installing the server flavour of the OS to run the server.

    What are your thoughts and recommendations? Do you know of a better way of doing this?

    Thanks in advance for any input you can provide.