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How to Mount Your Windows Partitons; read,writable using Ubuntu

November 13th, 2006
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This is very simple tutorial how to mount your NTFS and FAT partitions under Ubuntu with read and write access.

Note: The Ubuntu installer will mount NTFS and DOS partitions as read only by default, under /media/
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  1. Brian K.
    November 26th, 2006 at 08:39 | #1
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    Hi Apeman,

    I have a question for you. Did you ever get your synaptics touchpad to work with ubuntu? Around 25% of taps don’t actually click. Do you experience this?

  2. apeman
    November 27th, 2006 at 14:03 | #2
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    Hi Brian -

    I havn’t noticed any problems, but now that you mention it, I will keep an eye out for it. So far this morning, I’m getting 100% taps working.

    What model of notebook do you have?

    Cheers! – Chris

  3. Brian K.
    November 28th, 2006 at 04:45 | #3
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    Chris,

    I have a toshiba A100 Sk9, it’s very similar to your notebook. Is there a way you can copy/paste the synaptics section in your xorg.conf file so that I can try out your settings?

    I sometimes tap hard and sometimes very light and not all the taps are converted to clicks. In windows, they are always converted to clicks. This is driving me crazy, I don’t want to go back to Windows, not after I installed beryl. I just can’t go back.

    Thank you so much! :)

  4. apeman
    November 29th, 2006 at 21:45 | #4
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    Hi Brian -

    Here is the config from my xorg.conf, there isn’t much there, and I cannot find anything that is specific to the touchpad.

    – xorg.conf –

    Section “InputDevice”
    Identifier “Configured Mouse”
    Driver “mouse”
    Option “CorePointer”
    Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
    Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″
    Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
    Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
    EndSection

    – xorg.conf –

    If you want to see the rest of the file let me know.

    btw, what graphics card is in your laptop? mine has a crappy ati radeon xpress 200M that appears to not work with Beyrl.

  5. Brian K.
    November 29th, 2006 at 22:48 | #5
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    Thanks Chris.

    I’ve started using a mouse when I’m in Ubuntu. The part you pasted indeed did not have anything special in terms of configuration options for the touchpad. I guess i’m used to tapping softly in windows.

    The graphics card I have is an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600. There are a couple of things I don’t like about this notebook.

    1) The keys on the keyboard are very flimsy.
    2) No built-in microphone.
    3) The audio out port is in the front of the notebook and not on the sides. When I insert plug a set of headphones to the notebook, it kind of gets in the way of my belly.
    4) There is lots of bleeding light from the bottom of the screen.

    I think I can live with the above issues… because I bought the notebook for $1200 CAD at Staples last month.

  6. apeman
    November 30th, 2006 at 10:53 | #6
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    I probably have not noticed the tapping issue that you mention, mostly because I haven’t tried it under windows, so I would not know if there is a difference.

    This is my first non-IBM notebook, so I am still getting used to the touchpad instead of the little eraser head, so I might just be tapping hard. :)

    My notebook was only $800ish from cdw.ca, so I cannot complain too much. But I have noticed the same things that you mention above.

    Cheers! -Chris

  7. Cody Harris
    December 10th, 2006 at 21:10 | #7
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    I also have the A100 SK9. I agree with the audio jack being in such a horrible place. The rest of the laptop I’m very pleased with.

    I don’t have the tap problems you encounter under Ubuntu.

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