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Hi,

I'm configuring an oldish dual-core AMD laptop with Ubuntu Unity 16.10 (HP Pavilion G6).

The system works fine but about 4 out of 10 times the laptop will boot to a black login screen. I...

Thanks oldfred & ubfan1.

That clarifies things a lot.

Thanks oldfred,

Oops, forgot to mention that:

The external SSD would have been sdb at the time of installation and I did install Grub to the external (sdb) drive MBR via the "Something Else"...

Hi All,

I've recently set-up my Dell Laptop to run Ubuntu 14.04LTS from an SSD fitted in an external USB Case.
Currently, an Internet-isolated instance of Windows XP resides on the internal HD...

Thanks ubfan1 & Bashing-om,

The "rootdelay" helped but didn't entirely fix the problem.
If I hit the escape key to interrupt the BIOS on boot-up (which brings up the boot order menu on my...

Hi ubfan1,
Thanks.
That seems reasonable - I tried the device again just now and it needed three goes to boot up. When it does, it works perfectly.
The usb case gets its power from the usb...

Hi,

I had a 5-year old 2.5" exlaptop spinning SATA Hard Drive kicking about so I bought a cheap (£7) External Enclosure for it to turn it into a USB2 External Drive. The enclosure is a Dynamode...

*Bump* Anyone...?

Hi,

Having moved from Ubuntu 13.04 64bit to 13.10 64bit I can't get my networked (of a PrintServer) to work.

It works on 13.04 (I still have a 13.04 laptop connected to my network) and I'm...

Thanks efflandt, but I think events have overtaken us ... for the better!

A software update notification happened to come in last which I installed and this morning the keyboard issue seems to be...

Hi,

On doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.10 64bit on my Sony laptop I find that the keyboard reverts to US from my chosen UK option every time I reboot.
As a (rather unsatisfactory) workaround...

Hi,

On a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04, Unity I managed to connect to my network Epson Printer and print just fine.
Since then something has gone wrong and when I try to install my network...

Hi,

I'm trying to use GWOffice 0.1 with Ubuntu 12.10 64bit.

GWOffice will open a document previously created directly on Google Docs (Google Drive) but I can't create a new document,...

Hi,

Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, Unity.
Laptop dual-core Intel processor
Evolution 3.2.3 set-up for GMail imap.

Preferring Evolution to Thunderbird, I installed the former on Ubuntu (I left...

Thanks kc1di,

I will try VLC & MPlayer too.

I have had the same Dragon crashing problem on Kubuntu 12.04 also.
It seemed to work fine on 11.10, though, with both 'Buntus.

Strange, and also...

Ubuntu 12.04LTS, Unity, 32bit
Sony VAIO Laptop, Celeron M 1.7Ghz, 1Gb Memory

Have installed libdvdcss2 & ubuntu-restricted-extras.

Dragon player installed from regular repository.
Dragon...

Hmmm.

A bit more research has revealed that the MadWiFi driver ath9k may render a weaker signal from the AR9285 wireless chip. Though it possibly doesn't explain why it shows a moderately weak...

Hi,
Acer Aspire 5733, i3, 4Gb Mem, 500Gb Hard drive.
Ubuntu 11.10 64bit.

I have the following re Wired & Wireless LAN:

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
...

Which version of Kubuntu did you install?

I have an Acer Aspire with Atheros 9285 Wi-Fi chip in it.
It works very slowly in Ubuntu 11.10 64bit and loses the connection regularly.

Thanks.

C.S.Cameron:
Got it sorted, thanks.
Once I disconnected my IDE PATA Hard Drive (2nd Drive) it booted from my main SATA Hard Drive.
I checked my UUID Drive Nos with
sudo blkid and they matched...

Hi sudodus,


Agreed, that is my understanding too. Because of the nature of my PC my main hard drive is SATA and the 2nd is IDE which is linked in with the IDE DVD/ROM drive as there is only one...

sudodus:

Indeed, I'm afraid it won't update the kernel.

C.S.Cameron:
Yup, that's more or less what I did, disconnecting the internal hard drives and all. The Flash Drive install went fine but...

Thanks jerrrys.

I'd seen & a few of the posts before, though - useful site, GoogleUbuntu - hadn't seen that before :D

I managed to create a Flash Drive install that worked perfectly on 3 out of...

Hi,

I'm trying to create an Ubuntu 11.10 32bit Flash Drive that I can carry around from computer to computer i.e. ones with different hardware requirements.

The standard "Try or Install" Ubuntu...

Hey gunterhausfrau

Thanks.

I was getting "AV decoder. Error: -2" also.

Adding myself as a user to the "Audio" group did the trick :-)

Try the same picbits, it should work.