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[ubuntu] Poor video quality; driver issue?view story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I have been a Windows user all my life but got bored of it. Decided to give Ubuntu a go. Downloaded and installed Ubuntu 13.4 yesterday and so far am loving it. But one thing I've noticed is that graphics quality does not seem to be as good as it was for Windows 7 on the same laptop. (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] gnome-shell-timer Instalationview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I installed gnome-shell-timer via Synaptic Package Manager, but i cant get to use it, from what i read, it should be displayed at the top right of my screen, but it doesnt, and i cant seem to find it via dash either. PS: Im looking for an app for Pomodoro Technique, if you know about a similar product with easier installation, please recommend it to me. (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] Tying to Install Linux on Dell Workstation wit Windows 7view story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I have a Perc H710p hard disk controller, running 2 1 TB drives in RAID 1. When I try to install Ubuntu (and also same now with Red Hat) I get to the partition part of the installation, and the installer tells me that it doesn't see an operating system. I can see various partitions--just nothing identified as a Windows 7 partition. Which makes me nervous to go forward. (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] how to write a c program in ubuntu 10.04 LTSview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – wheh i write vi one.c, the vi editor is opened. But when i write # (for writing #include<stdio.h>)an error is generated.And the whole thing is lost.Please help me from this problem :) (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] Ubuntu and Windows 8 Dual Boot not workingview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi there everyone, My name is Gurinder Hans and this is my first post here. Recently I got into ssh, git and all this server stuff. So I decided to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS because through the terminal you can run all these cool commands. So what I did was create a partition about 40gb and installed Ubuntu on it manually. (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] Help! Messed up installing LAMPview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – So, I tried installing LAMP but messed up on the MySQL bit. Here is the tutorial I used: http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_lamp_for_newbies Here is what Step 3 says: Step 3. This is where things may start to get tricky. Begin by typing the following into Terminal: mysql -u root That's exactly where it gets tricky. (Hardware)

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[lubuntu] 13.04 installation - No GRUB, or Windows boot entry.view story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I'm trying to install Lubuntu 13.04 on my Windows 8 machine. Specifically, the machine is an HP 2000 bf-69WM. This model came with a 64-bit installation of Windows 8, running with the UEFI boot system. I installed Lubuntu for what I assume is fully, however when installing GRUB, the installer crashed. Using my LiveUSB, I managed to find that necessary files and folders were there. (Hardware)

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[all variants] setting nomodeset with Grubview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I have a machine that has a dual boot configuration with Ubuntu and Slackware and I need nomodeset for both. For Ubuntu, I can specify nomodeset in /etc/default/grub, but how can I set it for slackware ? Per my undestanding, modifying /boot/grub/grub.cfg isn't a good idea as it gets overridden everytime Grub gets updated, and one option I can think of is modifying 30_os_prober in a way that au (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] ndiswrapper dependancy error on ubuntu 12.04 preciseview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I have a fresh, unupdated installation of ubuntu 12.04 precise. I did a bit of digging to try and get ubuntu to use my Belkin N600 DB so it can connect to the internet so it can update. I came across the idea of using ndiswrapper. I got an installation of it and tried to install it when the error 'dependency is not satisfiable: dkms (>=2.1.0.0), and now i'm stuck. (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] VMware Server Console Installationview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I'm following this tutorial to install VMware server console, to connect to remote vmware server: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VM...nstall_Only.29 But when I do gksudo vmware, I get asked for my sudo password and nothing happens after that. Any idea how to solve this? or how to determine what is causing it (as I don't even have an error message)? Thanks! Mauricio (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] Ubuntu 13.04 install gives flickering screen and stops ...view story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 on a Award Bios (v1.0A) desktop with 512 mb ram. I am trying to boot off the DVD Drive... I get the message "Boot from ATAPI CD Rom : No Emulation" The the screen shows Ubuntu 13.04 a few times (and blanks out in between) and then continues to flicker with the purple color and blank screen alternately.. If I try to move the mouse, its shows the mou (Hardware)

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[ubuntu] HDD mount fails on boot, but runs fine from terminalview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Upon boot, error message shows up: After going into recovery I find that wd6400aaks mounts fine, but wd10eads and wd10eads.bck fail. Manually mounting them works perfectly, so I can't find any error there. (Hardware)