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Go HP, over 2000 hp printers are supported on Linux regardless of distro see http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

the LinuxTV wiki may answer your questions http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

It would seem that the assumption so far has been that your connection will be eth0, it could be eth1 etc do a dmesg | grep eth that will show all eth devices the kernel sees then do as previously mentioned with ifconfig and dhclient

if you've formatted your linux partition, then what you've done is get rid of the files in /boot that grub reads to show you the boot menu and allow you to choose your os, reinstalling linux will reinstall grub so the error will go away, alternatively you need to use fixmbr in windows to reset...

what make and model of bluetooth dongle have you got?

this will tell you http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Is your loopback interface running? check with ifconfig, you're looking for lo

So no one is aware of ntfs 3g then? Intructions for dapper drake here: http://lunapark6.com/?p=1710 more info here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=23836054&forum_id=2697

I don't think that will be perminate. /etc/mtab lists what you have mounted, its not where you tell mount where to mount stuff, that would be done in /etc/fstab its the same command just written in /etc/fstab

pressing Ctrl + X will exit from nano. silly mistake about the location of the xorg.conf file, may have had other .conf files on my mind

you could try manually editing you xorg.conf file with sudo nano /etc/xorg.conf this assumes you have nano installed. Find the section related to the graphics card and change the driver to vesa.

Crap, fake root access as you call it is handled in gnome by GKSudo which is a front end to sudo I believe. From the sudo manual: sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser Ubuntu during the install sets up your user as the permitted user in the case of sudo so...

Well to start x and gnome you can type at the prompt sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start this starts the gnome destop manager and lets you login to gnome. You didn't need to type sudo passwd root Ubuntu doesn't use the root password, the root password by default is scrambled and anything...

you should be able to use the debian package seeing as ubuntu is a debian derivative but i could be wrong as ubuntu and debian aren't compatible in which case try the source package and compile with ./configure make then as root make install for ntfs add something like this to...