Re: [Hampshire] "Little black book of fixes"?

Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> As anyone watching this list over the last few days may have seen,
> I've been having trouble with a few separate things. I've got around
> all of them (Firefox mouse wheel not working, Firefox not handling
> alt+d for address bar, sound only working in first app not multiple
> apps, nvidia 8400 X config) before on different distros but forgotten
> how I did it.
>
> This begs the question: What do others use in this situation? Is
> there a "little black book of Linux fixes" somewhere? ISTR a website
> called perfectfedora, perfectsetup or something similar which takes
> users through the hassles faced by various users post install but to
> be of any use, you have to have a setup identical to that of the
> author's. There are of course various wikis too for each distro but,
> short of us all using our own webspace as an aide memoire - is there
> anything else?
>
> I'm thinking along the lines of a document either on my webspace or on
> my NAS somewhere - just wondered if there's something web 2.0 out
> there for just such a task.
>
> Cheers
> Rob

Hi Rob,

Typically I do the following when I hit a sticky patch:
1. the accompanying docs, man pages, etc.
2. online docs/wiki/forums for the application in question
3. Ubuntu forums (since I am pretty much 100% Ubuntu here)
4. less specific google searches if all of the above fail
5. HantsLUG mailing list

I have found the HantsLUG Wiki to be pretty useful too, but not so much
with up-to-the-minute stuff like your nvidia driver issue. I am terrible
at looking here first, and even worse at updating it <shame>. I guess
that now we have a google-facing mailing list it is not so important to
do this, but there are some things I go back to it regularly for, so if
you are looking to summarise the problem and the fix anywhere, this is
probably a good place to start.

Sean

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