Ubuntu 9.10 + Nvidia Driver = Black Screen of Death

I got this howto from brainyautomation.com last year. This is what i used whenever i reinstall Ubuntu on my Dell laptop. This still works even for Ubuntu 9.10 (for my laptop that is).

reboot and select the "recovery mode" kernel and then do this or if your like me i removed my boot screen so a recovery mode is out of the question. What you do is start ubuntu up to the blank screen. press ctrl + shift F4 or any F keys except F7. you will be prompted to enter your login and password and once logged in do the steps below:

nano -w /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc


# add this to the end of the file options nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 NVreg_Mobile=0

save file and then reboot and your done. hope this helps

Remind Myself Edition: Remember Authentication Mounted Drive in Ubuntu 9.10

It seems authentication for mounted drive isn't the same as before. Old version let you save the authentication for a mounted  drive. In Karmic there is none, dunno why they removed it. Anyhoot  luckily somebody posted a howto on the said topic.

Open terminal and type the following:

sudo gedit /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy

Look for the action id:

org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount-system-internal

Within that action id look for the line:

<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>


and replace it with:

<allow_active>yes</allow_active>

save file and your done.

Remind Myself Edition: Disable Ubuntu's Annoying Update Manager Popup

I just installed the latest version of Ubuntu which is 9.10 Karmic Koala. Everything installed correctly but there is this one big annoyance and that is the update manager which continously popup even though i minimize it and stuff. I have to google for the answer on how to stop it. This post is just basically to remind me on how to disable the popup.

Open gconf-editor via Terminal, browse down to Apps -> Update Notifier, and uncheck the auto_launch option to stop Update Manager from popping-up.

Testing Offline Blogging in Linux

This post is done by using a offline blogging tool name BloGTK. I have tested a couple of this blogging tool for 2 weeks now and it's seems BloGTK is the right tool for my need.