I agree with sododus. Typically the black screen issues is caused by the graphics not being set correctly by the kernel during boot. You can prevent this by adding the parameter "nomodeset" to grub...
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I agree with sododus. Typically the black screen issues is caused by the graphics not being set correctly by the kernel during boot. You can prevent this by adding the parameter "nomodeset" to grub...
Hi,
Does your laptop have another operating system installed on it (windows)? Or is there any important data stored on the hard drives?
If the answer is NO to both questions, then I would do...
You could try turning off fastboot and secure boot. Then fixing the boot loader, grub, with boot repair (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair).
Amazon kindle formats (kf8 and azw) are DRM protected and proprietary. Your options of viewing those files are Kindle Cloud Reader, the windows version of Kindle reader (using wine) or converting the...
Hi Ned,
It's doubtful you have a virus. Your symptoms (unopenable and dissapearing files) however are typical to a failing hard drive (mechanical failure).
I recommend backing up your precious...
Hi,
Did the failing exteral USB hard drive have 3 partitions on it? (Two of them linux partitions.)
If yes the you have presumably copied over the correct drive.
All you would basically need to...
Hi,
The information you provided is a bit hard to follow. The device names are inconsistent.
In the first post you said you did a file system consistency check for device sdb ("fsck -v -f...
Sometimes UEFI can cause problems with the bootloader (grub).
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
You should check if you have fastboot/quickboot enabled in the "bios" and disable it. You...
In case you do have an intact windows partition you can use the following guides:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/133533/how-to-remove-ubuntu-and-put-windows-back-on
The example is for windows...
Hi,
HP laptops have an option to disable/enable touchpad. On some laptop models this is done by double tapping on the top left-hand corner of the touchpad area, which can easily happen by...
You can automount your hard drives in /etc/fstab, then make symbolic links to you games on those mount points.
For instance as WoW is a windows game it lives in:...
You can list installed packages by size with:
dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n
Yes.
If both appcache and ClientRegistry.blob are missing the you may as well delete everything except:
~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/ and the files and folders within (so you don't have to...
List the hard drive usage with:
df -h
If you have a separate /boot partition that is filled up with old kernel versions from previous updates then that should show up here.
List the installed...
1) Stop using the hard drive. Any new data you write to it reduces your changes of recovering the data.
2) On a different computer or by booting from the ubuntu live dvd /usb download system rescure...
The package your trying to install is presumably called python-pyme in ubuntu. You can install this using the package manager:
sudo apt-get install python-pyme
or
You can manually install the...
As you already know you can install only source packages in any Linux distro. Just remove all binary repos and only use the source repos. The USE-flags are however unique to Gentoo.
Have you tried...
If you want to use the onchip Intel graphics, then no you don't need to install any additional graphics drivers. The nouveau graphics driver is for Nvidia graphics cards, but also that is installed...
You can uninstall steam and remove everything in your steam folder .local/share/Steam except for the SteamApps folder (which contains you installed games) and the clientregistry.blob (which contains...
I don't think this should happen if your running a standard ubuntu installation.
Have you been experimenting with ubuntu touch (for instance by adding ubuntu touch/phone related PPAs or enabling...
print the UUIDs of the drive with:
blkid
for example:
/dev/sda1: UUID="5EC55EA428DEFFD3" TYPE="ntfs"
Make a backup of your fstab
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bk
Then add these entries...
Right click on the black bar and tick navigation Toolbar.
OpenGL is included in the mesa packages, installed by default in basically all linux distributions. If you need specific packages to create openGL stuff, then that's a different thing, but you don't...
A few tips that might help.
First remove the cd image from virtualbox settings:
Storage --> Controller: IDE, CD/DVD Drive: Remove disk from virtual drive
This way the virtualbox will actually...
I use timeshift (http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html) for system backups (backup goes to a separate drive) and rsync for home partition stuff (documents, music, etc. which puts the files to my...