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Well, for those who may read this and ponder the same issue, let me tell you it was the easiest thing to do.

First up, my on board sound chip a Realtek ALC889.

I set it to active in bios and...

I have a Xonar DG sound card working great in Ubuntu 12.10. It has a built in headphone amp and it sounds amazing.

However the microphone does not work.

I have poked around online and it...

In the end I did a clean install (again). Seems my 'backup' wasn't.

I just don't get what it is with these so called 'updates' that leave my pc unusable.

What I have observed is that this...

You'd think I'd learn by now. Don't do upgrade when Ubuntu 12.10 suggests it.

After the upgrade yesterday other day I rebooted into a desktop with no launcher, no top nav and no right click menu....

So, after an update today I'm on a desktop with no icons, no side menu, nothing. Alt-T got me a terminal and I am able to run Firefox. Here I am.

How do I 'make sure I have Advanced Settings/...

I so agree with the idea of a some warning.. Last night an 'update' (if you can call it that) totally ruined a perfectly good install of 12.10 which was running the AMD 13.1 catalyst drivers.
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Thanks for the tips guys.. Alas when I got the black screen, enough was enough. I was able to back up all my stuff from Live CD. That was pretty easy actually. Right now I am typing this from the...

Well, I can tell you what not to try..

I thought it might be good idea to reinstall my 13.1 ati graphics card drivers.

On reboot I get a black screen.

The system is F#@#%ed.

Ubuntu can...

Tonight Unbuntu 12.10 informed me it had some updates for my system. This has happened in the past so I did not hesitate. I glanced at what was being installed and seemed be a dozen or so 'header'...

Thanks for the tip Spectre.

I downloaded the 3.1 (Final) drivers. When I tried to install them I got an error with a missing fglrx or some such thing..

This I fixed by installing the...

Well that is a great question.. I did not know the 13.1 (Final) drivers came out. To busy wrestling with the 12.11 beta drivers. D'oh!

I just need to decide now do i try the 13.1 drivers OR the...

I have not tried to run a 'Windows' game. Thus far I have installed Trine 2 (native) and Team Fortress. Also a native Linux app.




Aftershot pro from Corel has a native Linux version. Check...

Enough is enough. I have bitten the bullet and opted for a full, hard drive wiping reinstall. I only had it install for a day so I only had on it, Updates, Steam, 1 x 2.5GB game and emails from the...

During the reinstall I was just asked to create my username and password. I am 100% positive I have the correct password.

Or put it this way, the log in box I get tells me that if I enter the...

Well, after the reinstall (where it tried to reinstall over the existing install, keeping you files intact), I still can't get in.
I get the little login option where my user name and password...

After installing the latest Ubuntu yesterday, today it was time to install some proper drivers for the ATI HD6000 type graphics card.

I followed to the letter the instructions on this site..
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