Projector / External Monitor display problem on Ubuntu 11.10? [ SOLVED ]

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Written by Baibhav Rajbhandari Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:18

I usually do not use projector or external monitor. But there are times when any body needs it usually in presentations and meetings. I realized, for some reason, my VGA port was not working, in my HP Pavillion with Ubuntu 11.10.

Since, I've to use VGA port more often for presentations now. I decided to make it work.

So this is how I made it work.

For nvidia, add new drivers -

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

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How to restore Unity Ubuntu 11.04 messed up with Compiz? [ SOLVED ]

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Written by Baibhav Wednesday, 04 May 2011 20:50

OK, first of all, I think everyone is aware of the fact that Ubuntu (especially the Unity desktop) heavily depends on Compiz (one of the best window-manager that uses 3D hardware accelerations). So configuring Compiz in Ubuntu can be pretty handy, only if you know what you're doing, no disrespect intended.

Although you can easily do this by installing a well known front-end but still, even without having to install anything at all, you can change a lot of Compiz related settings in Ubuntu 11.04 using the Gnome configuration manager called "Gconfig-editor".

1. Open your Terminal and issue the below command.

gconf-editor

Broadcom wireless card is not working in Ubuntu 11.04 [SOLVED]

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Written by baibhav Tuesday, 03 May 2011 23:21

I have network card "Broadcom Corporation BCM4311". And its been working fine out of the box in all previous versions until now in Ubuntu 11.04.

To know your netword card, type below in console.Then look for Network Controller: and the card's name right behind it.

lspci

For me this worked,

Ubuntu 11.04 Problem Unknown keyword in configuration file[SOLVED]

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Written by Baibhav Tuesday, 03 May 2011 23:05

Right when I tried to boot from the Ubuntu 11.04 startup pen drive,  I got this error

SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian - 2008-07-15 EBIOS Copyright (c) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin

Unknown Keyword in configuration file.

boot :

And I stuck right there until I got this solution.

In your bootable pen drive, find this file in syslinux/syslinux.cfg and edit it this way -

# D-I config version 2.0
include menu.cfg
default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 50
ui gfxboot bootlogo

How to setup Zend Framework without editing php.ini?

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Written by Baibhav Rajbhandari Tuesday, 29 March 2011 11:26

There are lots of tutorials to setup Zend Framework by editing php.ini in server. But the easiest way I found out is to use the init_set() function to set the value on the php configuration option.

To illustrate -

Suppose my server tree is like

Server Root

• Zend
• application
• library
• data
• public
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How to find the Facebook API Key of the application?

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Written by Baibhav Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:06

Facebook API key is vary useful tool to create any Facebook application or connect your site/blog to Facebook Connect. If you don’t have a Facebook Platform API key, below are simple steps to follow.