I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop about a week ago and have a few questions and problems that hopefully someone here can help me with. I've also posted this at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4220693#post4220693 - some other info on my laptop is there if it'd help. (And the numbered items are numbered to be the same as the unanswered problems on the link if you're wondering why there's no #2, #3...)
1. Whenever I'm playing certain full screen games like quake3, the volume controls on my laptop don't do anything. Pressing mute won't mute, etc. If I exit the game, they'll work immediately afterward, but not while I'm in the game. Can I fix this? (I've only had this problem with q3-based games, and ioquake3. Some other games, I have the problem that the volume control makes the game lose focus and I have to click to make it come back up.)
4. I've been using ThunderbirdPortable with Enigmail plugin for my email on windows, so when I got linux, I figured out if I put the standard linux version of thunderbird on my flashdrive, and managed to set it up to use the same profile directory as the windows portable version on the flashdrive. It loaded all my email and the enigmail plugin.
But the enigmail plugin is still set up to try to use the windows version of gpg. I can change it, but then it will want to use the linux version when I try to use it on windows. Is there a way around this?
10. If I switch users (leaving first profile logged in), then log out of the second one, it goes back to the enter password window because its locked, but the screen is completely blank except for a mouse. I have to move the mouse until it becomes the symbol when its being held over a text box, click, and enter my password, press enter, and then log back in, which things work fine afterward. This is pretty annoying as I'd like to be able to use this feature without blanking the screen. Anyone have some ideas to fix this?
Last edited by Agent ME on Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:18 am; edited 1 time in total
1. Whenever I'm playing certain full screen games like quake3, the volume controls on my laptop don't do anything. Pressing mute won't mute, etc. If I exit the game, they'll work immediately afterward, but not while I'm in the game. Can I fix this? (I've only had this problem with q3-based games, and ioquake3. Some other games, I have the problem that the volume control makes the game lose focus and I have to click to make it come back up.)
4. I've been using ThunderbirdPortable with Enigmail plugin for my email on windows, so when I got linux, I figured out if I put the standard linux version of thunderbird on my flashdrive, and managed to set it up to use the same profile directory as the windows portable version on the flashdrive. It loaded all my email and the enigmail plugin.
But the enigmail plugin is still set up to try to use the windows version of gpg. I can change it, but then it will want to use the linux version when I try to use it on windows. Is there a way around this?
10. If I switch users (leaving first profile logged in), then log out of the second one, it goes back to the enter password window because its locked, but the screen is completely blank except for a mouse. I have to move the mouse until it becomes the symbol when its being held over a text box, click, and enter my password, press enter, and then log back in, which things work fine afterward. This is pretty annoying as I'd like to be able to use this feature without blanking the screen. Anyone have some ideas to fix this?
Last edited by Agent ME on Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:18 am; edited 1 time in total
