Second monitor stuck sideways in 14.04.1 Unity topic

Second monitor stuck sideways in 14.04.1 Unity

Tried fixing this through System Settings > Displays

But the only options available for the Rotation option are “Counterclockwise” and “Clockwise.” No “Normal” option is available.

This second monitor is a SHARP X Flat TV.

The Displays setting utility names this second monitor as “Unknown Display.”

Clicking the “Detect Displays” button in the Displays setting utility changes nothing.

The signal for this second monitor is routed through a home theater receiver/amp before it reaches the TV.

The first monitor is a TOSHIBA TV/VGA Monitor thing and the Display settings utility names it specifically and correctly.

The computer is an HP Media Center PC m7250n desktop – dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 14.04.1. (Of course the dual monitor setup works perfectly in Windows XP.)

The video output is via a PCI video card.

So here is my lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 81)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 81)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV370 [Radeon X300]
01:00.1 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV370 [Radeon X300 SE]
02:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
02:03.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) Video Decoder (rev 01)
02:04.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02)
02:05.0 Communication controller: LSI Corporation 56k WinModem (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family LAN Controller (rev 01)

So, is there a way to get my second monitor normalized?

[P.S. Why did the Ubuntu folk design the second monitor function to output sideways only for unknown monitors? Like, wouldn't “Normal” have been a better default for that? Geeeeez.]

change physical disks, stuck topic

I am running 12.04 64bit, on 512gig drive. I have upgraded the system hardware (processor and memory) so why not the disk..
have a spare 1.5t drive, slightly faster than 512g drive

added 1.5t as second physical

used dd -f /dev/sda /dev/sdb

to clone
shut down, removed old drive
put new drive data cable in same sata port
powered on, booted fine...

gparted says the drive has ~1t free, as expected
won't let me resize it into the free space

I used lvm lvdisplay to display the lvms..

had 2. /dev/servername/root, mounted at /
and /dev/servername/swap_1

I turned off swap swapoff -a
then deleted the second lvm
lvdelete /dev/servername/swap_1

then gparted would allow me to expand the partition, so I did to full volume.
the LVM overlay (type 83) also expanded.

however, none of the free space when to the lvm labeled /dev/servername/root

I 'know' that this is inside the extended partition on the drive and inside the type 83 partition.

I just don't know how to resolve this.

vgextend fails, no free space
lvextend wants a physical volume

sam@buildserver:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930277168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007232d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 501758 2930276351 1464887297 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 501760 2930276351 1464887296 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/buildserver-root: 497.7 GB, 497658363904 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60503 cylinders, total 971988992 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/buildserver-root doesn't contain a valid partition table

sam@buildserver:~$ sudo lvm

lvm> vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name buildserver
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 4
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 465.52 GiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 119173
Alloc PE / Size 118651 / 463.48 GiB
Free PE / Size 522 / 2.04 GiB
VG UUID Ni929b-IYXj-FkUU-wvYJ-q0RD-FeTJ-lV5PSF

lvm> lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/buildserver/root
VG Name buildserver
LV UUID Jgsm3I-1sfz-M3ce-f3a7-oxCc-xmPY-95rRai
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 463.48 GiB
Current LE 118651
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:0

lvm> pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda5
VG Name buildserver
PV Size 465.52 GiB / not usable 1.00 MiB
Allocatable yes
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 119173
Free PE 522
Allocated PE 118651
PV UUID KcUCtV-Ay12-U0bK-A2tP-TCci-oSoQ-gDVysz

lvm> pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda5 buildserver lvm2 a- 465.52g 2.04g

lvm> pvscan
PV /dev/sda5 VG buildserver lvm2 [465.52 GiB / 2.04 GiB free]
Total: 1 [465.52 GiB] / in use: 1 [465.52 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]

lvm> lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/buildserver/root' [463.48 GiB] inherit

lvm> lvmdiskscan
/dev/ram0 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/dm-0 [ 463.48 GiB]
/dev/ram1 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/sda1 [ 243.00 MiB]
/dev/ram2 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram3 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram4 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram5 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/sda5 [ 1.36 TiB] LVM physical volume
/dev/ram6 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram7 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram8 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram9 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram10 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram11 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram12 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram13 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram14 [ 64.00 MiB]
/dev/ram15 [ 64.00 MiB]
0 disks
18 partitions
0 LVM physical volume whole disks
1 LVM physical volume
lvm>

I've attached a scren shot of the gparted screen
the disk utility for both physical and the vm

I didn't want to split the vg across volumes as I eventually want to add back the old drive as a second storage facility.

any guidance for this newbie welcomed.

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[ubuntu] Ubuntu 14.04 fglrx-updates hd 6450 stuck on wrong resolution topic

Believe me I know there enough threads out there on this very subject. I've gone through every single one of them.

Here's my issue. I've got a vga passthrough thing going on with kvm so I've got an nvidia gtx 560 just passing through, if that matters, and an ATI radeon hd 6450 on the host machine. I've had this card for a couple of weeks now and it has yet to make it past 1600x1200. I need it to be 1680x1050. I tried the open source radeon driver and it doesn't seem to even want to load. 640x480 is pretty tought to work with. I tried to modprobe it and it couldn't find the radeon driver at all. The package I installed for it was xserver-xorg-video-ati, and nothing. I don't know why it wouldn't load on boot. I've checked and rechecked all my blacklistings and radeon is not being blacklisted. So i went back to the fglrx driver. I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't here. I've litteraly gone through about two or three pages of google searches trying to find a solution. I've run out of solutions to try. The only thing I really havent tried yet is xrandr, but I have no idea how to use it. I've edited the xorg.conf file. Tried amdcccle, with sudo.....I don't know why this thing won't just use the right resolution. I don't know if this makes any difference or not, but the monitor is connected via VGA cable, since the DVI source is being used by the Nvidia card being passed through.

Here's xrandr's output

Code:

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ben@KVM-Host:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384
DFP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DFP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
CRT1 connected primary 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
  1600x1200      60.0*+
  1400x1050      60.0 
  1600x900      60.0 
  1360x1024      60.0 
  1280x1024      60.0 
  1440x900      59.9 
  1280x960      60.0 
  1366x768      59.8 
  1360x768      60.0 
  1280x800      59.8 
  1152x864      60.0 
  1280x768      59.9 
  1280x720      60.0 
  1024x768      60.0 
  800x600        60.3 
  720x480        60.0 
  640x480        59.9

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Here's the xorg.conf file that aticonfig -initial made

Code:

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Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier    "amdcccle Layout"
        Screen      0  "amdcccle-Screen[1]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier  "0-CRT1"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
        Option      "PreferredMode" "1600x1200"
        Option      "TargetRefresh" "60"
        Option      "Position" "0 0"
        Option      "Rotate" "normal"
        Option      "Disable" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "amdcccle-Device[1]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "Monitor-CRT1" "0-CRT1"
        BusID      "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[1]-0"
        Device    "amdcccle-Device[1]-0"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport  0 0
                Depth    24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

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I really would appreciate some help on this one, my eyes are straining to write this because of it being so blurry.

Thanks.

Stuck in App Store Deployment: "dpkg-shlibdeps -l option" fails at canonical topic

Sorry If I sound a little frustrated but I'm already waiting for over 4 month for an app-store review of my game and it just won't happen:

The last response I got was that my application could not be build from source (debsrc package) because the execution of dh_shlibdeps failed:

dh_shlibdeps --dpkg-shlibdeps-params="--ignore-missing-info -ldebian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets"
dpkg-shlibdeps: unknown option `-ldebian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets'

which I think is funny because this option is described in the manual:

Code:

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yousry@Blasphemy:~/Documents/deploy/Feb15/memorytheminorplanets-1.1$ man dpkg-shlibdeps


Options:
...
-ldirectory
Add directory to the list of directories to search for private shared libraries (since dpkg 1.17.0). This option can be used multiple times.
...

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and it is also working for me:

Code:

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yousry@Blasphemy:~/Documents/deploy/Feb15/memorytheminorplanets-1.1$ dh_shlibdeps --dpkg-shlibdeps-params="--ignore-missing-info -ldebian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets"
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libobjcxx.so.4.6 contains an unresolvable reference to symbol object_getClass: it's probably a plugin
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: 2 other similar warnings have been skipped (use -v to see them all)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libcurl.so.4 contains an unresolvable reference to symbol SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations: it's probably a plugin
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: 150 other similar warnings have been skipped (use -v to see them all)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/memoryTheMinorPlanets contains an unresolvable reference to symbol BIO_push: it's probably a plugin
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: 14 other similar warnings have been skipped (use -v to see them all)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libssh2.so.1 contains an unresolvable reference to symbol EVP_des_ede3_cbc: it's probably a plugin
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: 62 other similar warnings have been skipped (use -v to see them all)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libcurl.so.4 debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/memoryTheMinorPlanets debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libssh2.so.1 were not linked against libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (they use none of the library's symbols)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libcurl.so.4 was not linked against libkrb5.so.3 (it uses none of the library's symbols)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libcurl.so.4 was not linked against libk5crypto.so.3 (it uses none of the library's symbols)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/memoryTheMinorPlanets was not linked against libIexMath-2_1.so.11 (it uses none of the library's symbols)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/memoryTheMinorPlanets was not linked against libmsgpack.so.4 (it uses none of the library's symbols)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libcurl.so.4 debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libssh2.so.1 were not linked against libssl.so.1.0.0 (they use none of the library's symbols)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libIlmImf-Imf_2_1.so.21 debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/memoryTheMinorPlanets were not linked against libImath-2_1.so.11 (they use none of the library's symbols)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if debian/memorytheminorplanets/opt/memorytheminorplanets/libcurl.so.4 was not linked against libcom_err.so.2 (it uses none of the library's symbols)

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I'im using utopic as build system:

Code:

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yousry@Blasphemy:~/Documents/deploy/Feb15/memorytheminorplanets-1.1$ uname -a
Linux Blasphemy 3.16.0-28-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 12 17:37:40 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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I also checked the resulting deb on the same system:

http://virtualhorde.com/BIN/memoryth...ntu1_amd64.deb

So what could be the difference between my and the reviewers system?

[ubuntu] Ubuntu 14.04 stuck at 640x480 dell s2009wb monitor topic

I plugged my Dell s2009wb monitor into a Linux Ubuntu 14.04 computer and it says it failed all resolution tests and told me it will be set at 640x480. the monitor is capable of 1600x900 and all the resolutions that failed, worked on all Windows versions that monitor has been hooked up to, everything from Windows 98, XP, & 7. XP even included it's native 1600x900 resolution but Ubuntu doesn't like my monitor for some reason

How can I remedy this?

from Google:

Quote:

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Your search - ubuntu stuck 640x480 dell s2009wb - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:

• Make sure all words are spelled correctly.[/*]
• Try different keywords.[/*]
• Try more general keywords.[/*]
• Try fewer keywords.[/*]

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I searched the software center for both "dell monitor" and "s2009wb" and both got "no results" I go into software updates and additional drivers, it says "no proprietary drives are in use" and "No additional drivers are available"

setting/display only shows 640x480 or the other 480p 16:9 & 16:10 variants

Ubuntu worked fine with 1280x1024 on an older monitor that this replaced.

[ubuntu] Can't access BIOS options on MSI Wind U100 stuck in Grub Rescue topic

My main problem: I can't access BIOS boot options on my MSI Wind U100. I get the main BIOS screen, but it's conspicuously missing the "hit del for options" that used to be there--and when I try hitting various F keys and/or del, nothing ever brings up any option. Instead, I just go straight to Grub Rescue, and I can't get out.

Why I want to get to boot options: because I have a Windows XP bootable USB that I want to use to get into recovery mode and fix my MBR. But I can't figure out how to get that USB to boot when BIOS won't cooperate and when my only other option is Grub Rescue.

How I got in this mess: I was dumb. I had a dual-boot Ubuntu/Windows XP system that I wanted to restore to factory default, with Windows only. So in Windows I deleted the Ubuntu partitions and rebooted without fixing MBR first. Ugh.

To fix the problem, on another computer, I made my XP bootable USB, but as I said, I can't get my Wind to boot into it (or anything else, or give me any BIOS options at all). Any suggestions? (I've read a lot about Grub Rescue, but it seems that it doesn't have USB drivers...?)

[ubuntu] Chrome description stuck despite efforts to fix it topic

Hello everybody,

I have a quick question about something that has been slowly driving me insane for a while.

So, when I use the google chrome web browser, every time I hover the mouse over it, it shows this: http://i.imgur.com/laiHHC2.jpg , regardless of what page is actually loaded. I have tried the following to get this to go away:

Restart computer
Purge
Remove configuration files ( the ones in ~/.config/google-chrome)
restart again just to be safe
then reinstalling

This problem just keeps on persisting. To be clear, my problem is that it shows some reddit thread as the description regardless of what is actually in the browser.

Thanks in advance for the help,
f41lurizer