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My Wifi card is using way too much power.

Wifi disabled powertop reports 4.5W total system draw at basically idle.
Wifi enabled powertop reports ~32W system draw at basically idle.

lsmod...

DigiKam is showing the most promise right now! Exports to everything. And I can run my large DB on one drive (SSD) even using MySQL as a backend, while keeping pictures anywhere (removable media,...

I used to use gallery remotely 1.x variety. I hadn't considered using it locally. That's a thought.

Shotwell has become very unreliable as my photo collection has grown. I take a lot of shots of my kids an also do some amateur photography. To the tune of about 300 GB of photos now, and the pace of...

This maybe too simple, but have you tried booting back into mac and editing which partition is booted from in rEFIt/rEFInd?
For me after a reinstall, I realized that I kept telling refit to boot my...

I was going to update to 13.04 anyway so I just went ahead and fresh installed everything. Well almost, kept my home and am going to restore my /etc selectively.

I suspect, if I had been really...

From dmesg:

Running 13.04 but issue existed with 12.04

After 5 or so minutes booted up, Ubuntu has trouble writing to the Journal and the drive converts to read only. Hard to post dmesg since dmesg sometimes...

I did manage to get the system back online, but only via installing 13.04. This right in line with MrSteve's observation. 13.04 had the latest Grub EFI bootloader. If you do install 13.04.0 please...

I'm running 12.04 on a mac mini server, and all was well until an update in the pat few days. Ran a regular kernel update (whatever came out this week 6/3) and restarted the computer. Now Ubuntu...

Also an update on the peculiarity of the SD Card!

The SD card seems to only work if the Ethernet port is the active connection. Very strange. 100% reproducible.

12.10 has (had?) that bug. It was a kernel bug in how HDMI was handled. I ended up sticking with Precise, but there were 2 workarounds I remember: 1) Suspend then Resume, the issue goes away...

So this saga continues and I still dont have a box to my liking. Writing from MacOS to Ext4 Drives via Paragons' software was causing my drives to be checked on every ubuntu run, usually resulting in...

WiFi turned out to be a Hardware issue, which led to an AppleCare nightmare. Either way, I'm back online and have some updated observations

WiFi:
Didn't work out of box, but used a USB network...

Thanks for the hint with mbp 9,1

I did get networking to work with these directions
http://www.frozenindustries.com/2012/11/04/ubuntu-12-04-lts-on-an-apple-mac-mini-late-2012/

Video was an...

Further progress:

The grub issue was solved by
installing refit -- making sure its working, and then running the install.

This maybe specific to the server version (6,3) I had it take over...

Progress:
This link helped --
MacTel Instructions -- Boot from USB -- Manual Approach

I can now boot the USB drive and get up to the install procedure.

However, the grub install fails. That...

Based on a number of posts that seem to deal mostly with the issue of compiling a wifi driver for the late 2012 mac mini -- I expected install to be a breeze. Quite the contrary -- I can't get ubuntu...

MastaBlasta -- It was a driver issue! I switched the nvidia driver to the backported version and =wham= much better performance. glx gears for example went from ~500 fps to 2600 fps. Compiz is...

Oh I agree, I thought my current card should have been be plenty fast! That's why I didn't upgrade it.

Unity3d runs great on my wife's laptop and it's puny built in intel graphics. ON my desktop,...

Thanks for the links the recommender looks great.

However, I'm wondering what people's experience has been, wondering if anyone has finds a $30-100 video card doesn't stutter on unity3d stuff?
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I run a machine that hardware wise should be a speed demon (SSD, 2.8ghz Hexacore, 16gb ram) even my broadband should be plenty fast (50-60mbs). The one piece that is out of place is my video card --...

I did try from the terminal and the same result would happen.

I ended up downloading the beta of Precise and foudn that the issue was gone in Precise Pangolin.

I installed the beta, and the...

Thanks. Tried adding "acpi=force lapic" and no improvement so far.

Shutdown leads right to the login screen, and never past it.

As above. My wife's HP G7-1150 works great except when she chooses shut down, it logs out instead. Even when there are no programs running, she still has to hold down the power button to get the...