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I was hoping for a simple "no additional drivers ever needed", but I see now I need to be more specific.

What I was wanting, but appears not likely is a 6 port SATA to replace the 6 on my...

My older motherboard had a problem with a SATA port, So I'm looking to add an add-in SATA card with 6 ports (like the motherboard - Intel DZ77BH-55K). The particular one I'm looking at is 10Gtek...

Do you mean Ubuntu account, or browser (Firefox) account?

Do you mean Ubuntu account, or browser (Firefox) account?

How do I do that?

-> Check if one of your enabled GNOME extensions is misbehaving?
How do I do that?
-> Create a new user account, login with that and see if the problem is fixed. By doing this, you'll know if it...

After a few hours use, this message, among several others, repeats rapidly, hard drive continually seeks, system unusable. Reboot, runs ok for a while (couple hours or so), then it starts again....

- I have changed batteries on both mice - no help.
- The wheel feels normal (not mushy) on both of them.
- These do utilize the Unifying Receiver, but the chances of two of two, 50 miles apart,...

- Logitech mouse M705 usually doesn't fully load at boot, also often reverts to "half there" after time out to blank screen

- Cursor works ok, but wheel is hit and miss, with erratic movement,...

I don't suppose it could be so simple to change the actual text color as to change "color: white;" to " color: black; " ?

At startup, the startup sound is >MUCH<, >MUCH<, >MUCH< too loud. Once started and logged in, sound level is good.

This began after a recent update.

How do I adjust the startup sound level to...

Software updater won't update google earth, gives "failed to download repository information".

Also, sudo apt-get update doesn't work, giving "NO_PUBKEY 78BD65473CB3BD13".

Google Earth runs...

By way of background, what I'm trying to do it select DNS by advice of Namebench DNS check.

Version = Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

roger@roger-desktop:~$ sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved
[sudo] password for roger:
roger@roger-desktop:~$

/etc/systemd/resolved.conf. apparently does...

Can't find /etc/resolv.conf .

I don't think it exists, or is VERY well hidden.

There is a folder called /etc/resolvconf, containing resolv.conf.d, which contains base, head, tail.

roger@roger-desktop:~$ nslookup google.com
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 172.217.5.206
Name: google.com
Address:...

Nameserver always comes up 127.0.0.53, and will not change, even though it is changed in system network settings.

How do I fix this ?!?

Shift seems to only work if done while BIOS is in progress. If you miss that, I think it was ALT+F2 to get to the login, which I also got to work finally .

SOLVED !

SUCCESS - Apparently the fool's routine of doing the same thing over and over is a good one !!!

I got logged into a big terminal screen about the 50th time of entering what I was (SURE???) was my...

I tried both Shift and Esc, and for good measure, both. No luck.

I'm getting better at getting to where it asks me for user name, but I don't know it and don't know how to get it.

The hard...

I've tried Esc, I'll try shift now... will take a few minutes...

Also, what's the magic answer when it asks for "desktop-login:" ?

I can't get to recovery mode - don't know how. Is this the "roger-desktop login" that I can't find the right answer for? This is followed by password - no problem I can only get to this about one...

roger@roger-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
[sudo] password for roger:
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: gdm is broken or not fully installed
roger@roger-desktop:~$
===
roger@roger-desktop:~$...

I rebooted, and got big problems. It begins to boot, gets to purple screen and then just rotates the dots. Depending on what keys I beat on, I get Ubuntu with dots, stops at "created slice system...