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  1. [SOLVED] Re: How to prevent Ubuntu from modifying UEFI boot order

    Thx for your response.

    Yes both installations are in UEFI mode. It is a HP ProBook 440 G1. Fortunately I have been able to resolve this problem in the meantime by simply deleting the Windows Boot...
  2. [SOLVED] Re: How to prevent Ubuntu from modifying UEFI boot order

    is it possible to achieve this by mounting efivarfs read-only?
  3. [SOLVED] How to prevent Ubuntu from modifying UEFI boot order

    I am used to choosing OS via BIOS boot selection menu, not grub. My laptop has two hard drives: each with their own bootloader. I have set the boot order in UEFI to boot Windows by default. However,...
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    [ubuntu] Files getting lost/not being copied

    I am at a complete loss with this.
    In last one month I had to reinstall Ubuntu more times than I have ever had to reinstall Windows in my life, so please bear with me if I sound frustrated.
    ...
  5. [ubuntu] Re: Can't boot into OS after swapping graphics card

    I tried resetting the BIOS, and now the "....PRAMIN..." message is gone, but the problem remains. Boot stops at "fbcon: nouveaufb(fb0) is primary device "
    However, safe mode boots.
    cdnwolverine,...
  6. [ubuntu] Re: Can't boot into OS after swapping graphics card

    Using old kernel does not work. The owner of the 550 card also runs Ubuntu (10.10) so the card should work with a LiveCD or a new installation.
    I'll try resetting the BIOS.

    Thanks for the...
  7. [ubuntu] Re: Can't boot into OS after swapping graphics card

    I am able to run initctl and dmesg thanks to this: http://blog.tridgell.net/?p=57
    I had temporarily replaced a GTX 560TI with a GTX 550TI. Not sure if that is the reason, but the OS is not booting...
  8. [ubuntu] Can't boot into OS after swapping graphics card

    Hello.

    Here is initctl list:



    avahi-daemon start/running, process 946
    cgroup-lite start/running
    mountall-net stop/waiting
    nmbd start/running, process 1463
  9. [ubuntu] Re: Automatic sleep on inactivity with and without X11

    Bump.
    pm-utils and pmi are not working properly when manually invoked. I can't recover from pm-utils hibernate, can recover but can't get back the $ prompt from pm-suspend, and pmi just gives error:...
  10. [ubuntu] Automatic sleep on inactivity with and without X11

    Hello,
    I am running Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 64bit. There is no Desktop environment but I run Windowmaker occasionally, mostly I work on tty1.
    Can anyone help me setting up automated sleep on...
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    Re: Playing video in terminal

    I have finally found the solution. Today I upgraded to the latest LTS and video playing is a lot more stable in it. The whole system is no more freezing due to a slight mistake with video playback....
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    Re: Playing video in terminal

    Yes I have, freezes the tty.
    Sorry. Update: FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).
    If it helps, my graphics hardware is NVidia and sound hardware is Creative X-Fi...
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    Playing video in terminal

    Please don't ask me why. :-)
    When I run mplayer -vo fbdev , it plays audio but no video, when I run sudo mplayer -vo fbdev, it plays video, but no audio. So I am using named pipe to start audio...
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    [ubuntu] Dansguardian ClamAV dependency

    I normally use Avast free on-demand scanner. Today I installed WebStrict(Dansguardian frontend) in my Intrepid amd64 & ClamAV was installed as a prerequisite. It seems Dansguardian is supposed to...
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    [all variants] Mission Accomplished

    Thank you all for helping me solve the problem.
    For archiving purpose:


    First I followed bbabu84 ´s method but found that it has not copied the contents of sda4 (old /usr) to the new /usr in...
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    [all variants] Re: Moving /usr folder

    Here is the output:


    Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda3 15638836 2594772 12249652 18% /
    tmpfs 963908 0 ...
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    [all variants] Moving /usr folder

    While installing I accidentally allocated a full partition sda4 for /usr instead of /home :(, it is a complete waste of space on sda4. I want to move it to sda3 . Is it possible? I´ve heard that...
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