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Kernel 4.10 doesn't play nicely with the Realtek adapter in my HP Stream 11. Wifi connects, then stalls in Firefox. Oddly enough, I'm able to download updates via the terminal. Unfortunately, kernel...

Interesting. If you have time for a quick tutorial, I'll give it a shot.

Worked like a charm and took all of 30 seconds. You're a star.

For reference, I found the mount point by typing mount in the terminal and searching for the volume, which I knew to be sdb1.

Xubuntu, with the XFCE desktop environment can be customised fairly easily to resemble the Windows 7 desktop, so by all means have a play with the live USB/DVD of that. As others have said, Linux is...

Situation:

I have two disk drives inside my system: a 250GB SSD OS boot drive, and a 2TB HDD which I would like to use for storage.

Now, I have full read/write access to the boot drive, but...

Owner of an HP Stream 11 here.

Versions of Ubuntu up to 15.04 won't install on the eMMC drive. The dailys of 15.10 will install if one ignores the warning messages; the only problem I have found...

I erased the HDD using Killdisk so only Vivid is installed.

Vivid, 14.04 and 14.10 have all been installed (at different times) using a UEFI bootable USB dongle. Of these, only Vivid has...

Now my mobo won't initialise a UEFI boot from optical media, so using Rufus on Windows I created a UEFI bootable USB dongle of the latest Vivid daily.

The live boot is fine, and I am able to...

I really feel your pain. I, too, have an AMD system.

The hardware really isn't all that bad, but the whole "offload the donkey work to the GPU" philosophy is only as good as the driver...

This is odd. The only kinds BIOS I have seen which don't allow any tweaking of the memory / CPU performance settings are on laptops, and even they have an option to load default values! At least...

I gave up on using Ubuntu on AMD systems. I have a laptop with a crappy Pentium b950 with integrated Intel graphics and a Phenom II x6 tower with Radeon 7750 and the Pentium tears strips off the...

You state you are using Ubuntu 12.04. Could you run a live USB of 13.04 and report back?

In addition, run the laptop on a hard surface and make sure that all the vents are unobstructed and free...

Hitting 'Delete' on boot will usually get you into the BIOS. You can reset by selecting 'Optimized defaults' or something similar. Make a note of the motherboard so you can download the manual from...

Basically it's a bug: Ubuntu installs the r8169 driver instead of the r8168 driver. And it's an old one, too:


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/252307


The solution is to...

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Ubuntu 11.04 64bit

So I built my first PC around a Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3L AM3+ board:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3828#sp

It has a Realtek 8111E chip...

Creating a bootable USB stick is easy-peasy within Ubuntu itself, which is rather a Catch-22 situation! However, if you can burn a live CD of Ubuntu and then run the live CD on another PC, you can...

The sad fact is that these days, web-pages are so loaded with video ads that even a low-end Core 2 will be maxed out when viewing such pages. The Reuters home page springs to mind, though it's been...

I had Ubuntu up and running on a Compaq Armada E500 (PIII 800 MHz 512 MB RAM). Not exactly lightening fast, but enough for a bit of typing and e-mailing. Your computer will be fine.

AMD offer better bang for your buck. Unless money is no object or speed is of the utmost importance, go for AMD. Besides, bully-boy Intel needs the competition.

My first thought is that you have allocated far too much HDD for swap, and far too little for the boot partition.

As you are not dual booting, why didn't you just let Ubuntu handle the...

OP, checked out your PC and there are BIOS and video firmware updates available. These may sort out your performance issues:
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Looking at your profile, are you still using Breezy?

Perhaps a fresh install of the latest and greatest Ubuntu (10.04 as of writing) is what you need. You should probably bag the 32 bit edition...

Strange... I had a Compaq Armada E500 with a Rage Mobility P/M card and it worked fine out of the box. No compiz, though, which was to be expected. Something is wrong in the Xorg...

Thanks for the reply.

I've already flashed the latest BIOS using FreeDOS, luckily, the computer was never a 'brick' (Windows 7 boots fine), so I'm not going to try such drastic measures.

The...