Flash sound crashes

Michael Haney thezorch at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 14:19:14 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Leonard Chatagnier
<lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Michael Haney wrote:
>> I have essentially the same problem.  It happened once so far and all
>> I had to do was restart Firefox and it was ok.  I am having a new
>> issue though.  When I shutdown Firefox it leaves an orphaned process
>> behind and prevents me from starting a new instance of the browser
>> until I manually kill the process left behind.
>>
>> Other than these two strange quirks I haven't had much trouble with Ubuntu.
>>
>> Well, there is one.  I can't get Ubuntu to stay in 1024x768.  It boots
>> into 800x600 spanning the desktop to 1024x768 and I have to use the
>> Nvidia Control Panel to change the resolution and it won't write the
>> settings to xorg.conf even if I run the Nvidia CP as root.
>>
>> I'm hoping in 10.04 a lot of these issues will be resolved because
>> stuff like this should have been found during the beta test phase.
>> Perhaps if Ubuntu went to a once a year update cycle there would be
>> more beta test time available.
>>
> Have you tried nvidia-settings and/or nvidia-xconfig from the cli and
> using sudo?
>

That is the nvidia-setings application I am using.  When I run it
using sudo or gksudo I get the message that it can't parse xorg.conf
when I try to get it to save settings.

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