Computers: Ubuntu Linux problems

When you click on the clock you get an option for Time & Date settings just below the calendar. Click on that. Making system-wide changes like this requires an admin account to unlock the settings. You can either make manual changes to the time or let Ubuntu synchronise with Internet time-servers. If the clock is out by a whole number of hours then the problem is likely to be the time-zone setting.

That's not a problem I've seen. I suspect a hardware fault in the mouse. It's unlikely to be in the computer but I could be wrong.

Some computers expect you to make your own recovery discs rather than supplying them for you. For instance, a Dell desktop computer that a friend has and an Acer laptop that a different friend has, both had the option to do this from the Start > All Programs > Dell (Acer) menu. Some computers only give you a one-time opportunity to do this and once done, I think that program uninstalls itself.

Other computers, like an HP desktop that another friend has, give you the option to do a factory reset at boot time, eg, Press Del for BIOS, Press F10 for boot options, Press F12 for recovery.

Are you sure you haven't got any of those options?

Top RHS of screen (on standard set up) is the date and time box. Right click om it and play away.

No problem here. Have you checked and degunged your mouse's internals?

Did you keep the Windows installation ?

I would advise anyone trying Linux out to do it on a dual-boot PC. That way you can eliminate hardware issues. IME, raising issues like yours would just result in a "Linux is perfect, it's *your* hardware"

- dual boot can shut them up.

Which box would that be?

Should be on NNTP anway.

Thats the gnome way, for sure.

Since by the time the signal gets to Ubuntu, its doesn't know the difference between up/down/left/right that is a mouse, not a ubuntu, problem..................

Linux ain't perfect, but if the mouse driver sees vertical signals but not horizontal, you can be sure that's because no horizontal signals are being sent.

Unless you are on weird wifi chipsets or some custom laptop mouse, linux does just work with almost all hardware.

That doesn't mean the installation process is quite as seamless as the actual code, however.

NTP.

NNTP is something quite different.

Just tried it on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine, works fine. Left click brings up calendar, right click brings up other options.

Agree that this issue is highly *unlikely* to be an OS problem, and more likely a faulty mouse.

Would be better on NTP...

Muy bad :-)

Only just woken up after an all nighter..

All the main OSes work on nearly 100% of hardware, but not 100%. Far more likely is errors on teh installation CD, Ubuntu is certainly a very capable OS. I'd recommend Linux Mint though, its Ubuntu with its main shortcoings sorted. Mint 7 beats later versions.

NT

Troll or some one with only half a plank?

Two semi off topic posts, both complaining about failures that no one here can do much about rather than getting off their arse and getting the people who can do something, to do it.

From the tone of that, I'd suggest you visit a computer shop and simply buy a PC that has the operating system already installed, or just *pay* someone to find the PCs original windows software (or Linux if you are keen) and install properly it for you. Wasting your time otherwise.

Distributions of Linux are made for technical fiddlers who enjoy and share their experiences of experimenting at the (b)leading edge of tech. Ubuntu 11.04 has a new desktop to it and unavoidably new bugs. It is not an out of the box experience that can be compared to switching on a computer that has been bought from a shop. Maybe Ubuntu 10.04 LTS could be for you but the coders of that work for free, calling them "incompetant" from your perspective of a spoilt spoon fed windows consumer is not nice ...

Last line of Dirty Harry,

A man's got to know his limitations....

I'm not risking 11.04 and the Unity phone interface which almost everyone hates, i'm sticking to 10.04 LTS.

FWIW..

Older daughters notebook developed a nasty virus botnet thing and nothing it seem shifted it so decided to wipe the hard drive and do a re-install. Couldn't find the original Windows 7 installer might have been via the USB as its not got a CD drive;!

She managed to download Ubuntu onto a USB stick and did the install after flatting the hard drive. No problems at all apart from the wireless driver which was noted and fixed on the Ubuntu website support.

Libre office suite installed c/w Firefox and Thunderbird and some odd media player and she reckons its fine, and does everything that Windows did and in a way she seems to like better;!..

Except that the Ubuntu installer is so dumb it will quite happily let you install itself on a different disk to the existing windows and make no changes whatsover to the boot process so that when you reboot the PC all you get is Windows.

MBQ

ux 11.04, because Windows kept crashing,

Seems to depend on the hardware you install it on, and it's easy enough to get rid of.

MBQ

Doesn't help if the HDD is trashed. You still need to make backup media.

MBQ

I've got Unity and Gnome on this machine. I swapped backwards and forwards a few times but now I use Unity full-time.