The built in speakers on the compaq desktop pro, while they work with WIN XP, don’t work with Ubuntu 10.04. However, if you plugin a set of speakers or earphones into the sound output jack on the back (green) works perfectly.

After installing the LIVECD onto the Compaq Desktop Pro, when I rebooted, everything looked okay. I run the updates. Then rebooted AFTER the updates, and then ran into trouble.

Nothing I tried worked! Then I found the secret! You need to create at LEAST 2 admin accounts Before doing the updates. One that you will do the updates after installing the LIVECD, and one that you will use AFTER you do the updates.

Here’s what’s going on. After installing the LIVED CD the monitor resolution is set to 800×600.

However, after installing the updates, the resolution switches to 1024×760. So that account you did the updates with: worthless!

If you logon after the updates with the second account, your good to go. But you need the snippet from here

I created the following file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf RIGHT AFTER DOING THE UPDATES!

DO NOT TRY TO CHANGE THE RESOLUTION TO ANYTHING BUT 1024×768. IT JUST WON’T WORK!


#
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf
#
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
#
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 31.5-48.5
VertRefresh 40-70
EndSection
#
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection


If you hose the resolution you can try this.


xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768


For those of us who need to take breaks from our computer (mine for medical reasons), the gnome-typing-monitor is indispensable.

However, it does NOT work in Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). Which for me, was a show stopper. I have Deep Vein Thrombosis and so I can’t sit for extended periods of time.

Ubuntu 10.04 Bug #565757 (gnome-typing-monitor)

This solution, fixes the problem. You will need to obtain the gnome-typing monitor from version 9.10. You can find 32 and 64 bit versions here.

Note that you will need to change the permissions (chmod) and ownership (chown) once you have downloaded and moved the file.

it needs to look like:

ls -l gnome-typing-monitor
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34920 2010-07-07 23:53 gnome-typing-monitor


note that in the following example ‘#’ is the comment character.
You don’t code that or anything that follows: