Summary This page has a brief explanation of a possible way to increase the resolution of your unsupported / poorly supported video card under linux by using the generic vesa driver. A sign of this is only getting 800×600 or 640×480 pixels when your monitor can handle a greater resolution. Background Trying to install Linux…
Summary Here is my recommendation. If you have trouble with an Acer or Gateway laptop that has a black screen on boot, and won’t boot into the CD ROM device, then try plugging an ethernet cable into the laptop from a working router. It worked both times for two different laptops with different operating systems….
Updated 2015-08, Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS. Apache 2.4.7, PHP 5.5.9, MySQL 5.5.14 Summary I wanted a local copy of Joomla to experiment with. It is not a simple thing. You need to have Apache, PHP, and MySQL installed first. Here is the offical list of Joomla Requirements. One shortcut might be to use Xampp. If you don’t want…
Created 2015-08. Xubuntu 14.04.2. Update 2023 I think this page is deprecated, at least for anyone using a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution. Sometime in the last few years, the automatic software updater started to add a second round of updates after the kernel files were updated. It appears after the restart and shows a window of…
Created 2014-10. This currently works in Joomla 3. Summary I was researching using Joomla to manage my existing website. I was wondering how you managed having both the Joomla-created pages and my existing pages side-by-side during the transition. Like many things in a program that does almost everything for you, the solution is very easy…
NOTE: Publish Date = 2008. PROBABLY DEPRECATED. I think this is included with the Ubuntu Linux installation now as long as you check the “Include extra software” box, for access to non-free Windows drivers. Summary: Support for wireless networking is rapidly improving for all linux distributions. This is a description of how you may be able to…