Recent content by bingobango

thanks so much for all of the info , i will try this tonight and keep tinkering with it. I did type the path in as you suggested , and it seemed to do what ever it was going to do with that file , i didn't get any errors , but i used some of the cammands above to purge , because cheese , and a...

https://www.linux.org/threads/installing-linux-on-an-imac.26009/ I was attempting to follow the instructions at the link above , he lists the specs of his machine there , it looks to be an older imac he is working with when sharing the zip file at the end , it may not even be the file i need...

I guess i answered part of my own question here, as it is definatly lower case bigj@bigj-MacBookAir:~$ ls -l /home/bigj/Downloads total 299232 -rw-r--r-- 1 bigj bigj 87252 Aug 1 2009 AppleUSBVideoSupport -rw-rw-r-- 1 bigj bigj 25629 Mar 21 15:35 AppleUSBVideoSupport.zip -rw-rw-r-- 1...

I have a 2015 macbook air i5 with 8gb of ram. I installed ubuntu linux and got everything working except for the webcam. I got a zipfile that contained the Isight camera drivers and am trying to get them installed. When i simply open the laptop , my user name is displayed with the capital...

Thanks so much for the reply, I didn't use perentheses when i actually typed it into the terminal , but i see what you mean. Does this mean I can use the ls commnad to verify that the file is actually in the folder? I am guessing i should also use capital letters that i have used in my username...

Thank you for this information, i know this is an older post but i am stuck, and new to all of this. I have a mid 2015 macbook air I5 with 8gb of ram. I installed the latest ubuntu 22.04 and all is seeming to work fine , i even got the wifi and bluetooth working.. i downloaded the zip file and...