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Change font color in Firefox toolbar to suit your theme (Ubuntu) January 3, 2008

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O.K., so you have chosen a new theme for firefox and now you can’t see the toolbar font at all.

Well what has happened is the system font color is the same color as your firefox theme color ( let’s say your font is black and the toolbar is also black)

To correct this you will need to create the userChrome.css file

Open Places>Home Folder

In the toolbar click view and then show hidden files

open .mozilla>firefox>(the default folder)>chrome

right-click userChrome-example.css and select open with “text editor”

add this code to the bottom of the page

menubar, menubutton, menu, menuitem, menupopup, popup > * {
color: white !important;
}

Save this file as userChrome.css in the chrome folder

The next time you open Firefox your font will be white

( if you want the text black just add this code:)

menubar, menubutton, menu, menuitem, menupopup, popup > * {
color: black !important;
}

No sound with a HDA Intel ICH8 Family (rev 03) sound card (GStreamer error message) December 29, 2007

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In order to correct HDA Intel ICH8 sound card issues with the ALSA drivers you will need to open up gutsy-backports.

This is accomplished by:

System>Administration>Software Sources

Click on the Updates tab and check Unsupported-updates (gutsy-backports)

Click Close

Click Reload in the new window that opens (The information about available software is out-of-date)

Your computer will download the new updates and close the Software Sources window

Open up a terminal:

Applications>Accessories>Terminal

Enter this code in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-generic

This installs the newest ALSA Drivers

Reboot and your sound should be restored

How to reinstall Windows after you installed Ubuntu and Windows no longer detects the hard drive December 23, 2007

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1. First things first: Gather all of your software discs (drivers, software including the Windows installation disc)

2. Double check that all your important data is BACKED UP!! (this should have really been done prior to any hard drive changes)

3. Reboot, and enter the BIOS . Go to the System Configuration page and set “SATA Native Support” to Disable. This is CRUCIAL!! (Your system may be worded a little different but whatever system you have disable SATA support.)

4. Boot the Windows XP CD, and enter Windows setup.

5. Hit Enter (continue). press F8 to agree with the legal stuff. Hit ESC (don’t repair).

6. If you used Gparted to partition the hard drive located the portion you formatted for Windows.

7. Select the “Unpartitioned space” and hit “C” to create.

8. The size will be whatever you want, if you have this formatted as FAT 32 or NTFS already some of this may be done for you.

8. Select desired partition and hit Enter.

9. Format NTFS. A full format is recommended if it’s your first time formatting this drive. (I always do a full format)

10. Windows will copy files to the HD after format.

11. Reboot (it will auto reboot). XP install continues, this time in a slightly more graphical interface. Answer all questions it asks .

12. Windows will reboot again.

13. Go through the brief setup process.. then Windows will log you in.

How to reinstall the Grub loader in Ubuntu when Windows overwrites it. December 23, 2007

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If you run a dual-boot system with Linux and Windows, I am sure this has happened to you. You had to do your quarterly reinstall of Windows, and now you don’t see the Grub bootloader anymore, so you can’t boot into Ubuntu.

Here’s the quick and easy way to re-enable Grub.

1) Boot off the LiveCD

2) Open a Terminal and type in the following commands, noting that the first command will put you into the grub “prompt”, and the next 3 commands will be executed there. Also note that hd0,0 implies the first hard drive and the first partition on that drive, which is where you probably installed grub to during installation. If not, then adjust accordingly.
sudo grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
exit

Reboot (removing the livecd), and your boot menu should be back.

Windows is no longer an option in Grub (Ubuntu 7.10) December 23, 2007

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If you did a clean install on your hard drive and installed Ubuntu before you installed Windows, then Ubuntu will not have anything in the grub configuration for Windows. This is where you’ll have to do a bit of manual editing to the grub boot menu file.

Open the file /boot/grub/menu.lst with the following command in the terminal:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Copy this code and insert it at the bottom of this open document (In the windows portion you can call windows whatever you like):
title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Look at the top of this document where it annotates that the grub loader is hidden by default. If you want the selection to be visible instead of having to hit (esc) when booting place a (#) sign in front of this line.

Save this document and reboot your system

Note: You should also verify that hd0,0 is the correct location for Windows. If you had installed Windows on the 4th partition on the drive, then you should change it to (hd0,3)

Repairing and Installing Flash plugin for Firefox in Ubuntu 7.10 December 19, 2007

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version. Now you’ll need to remove all vestiges of the flashplugin-nonfree package from your system.

  1. Close all instances of Firefox .

  2. Open a Terminal Applications>Accessories>Terminal and enter: 
    sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
  3. To navigate to where you saved the new Flash installer: 
    cd ~/Desktop
  4. Extract the installer: 
    tar xzf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
  5. The extracted file will be on your desktop, open this new folder and double click the install file: install_flash_player_9_linux
  6. Follow the onscreen prompts ( in a new termianl window that opens up) until you are asked where to install the player. The default is “y” :
  7. Answer “y” to proceed with the installation, then “n” for another installation.
  8. Close the Terminal by entering: 
    exit

Congratulations! You have the latest and greatest Flash Player running on your system.