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Do you believe it will boot off of usb? or anything for that matter in uefi? Again I was experiencing that Black screen where loading the live usb hangs. Here is the same symptoms:...

To start off, I have bought a new Asus K55N laptop with windows 8 pre-installed. I am trying to install dual-boot Ubuntu 13.04 x64 and windows 8. Also secureboot and fastboot are disabled I followed...

To start off, I have bought a new Asus K55N laptop with windows 8 pre-installed. I am trying to install dual-boot Ubuntu 13.04 x64 and windows 8. Also secureboot and fastboot are disabled I followed...

I have freshly installed Ubuntu 13.04 and have installed the fglrx-updates package for the video card driver. My problem is that every time I logout or reboot my overscan setting arent applied. I...

What I did was

Alt + F2
login
sudo apt-get purge gdm
sudo chmod 777 .Xauthority
That allowed me to login in using my regular profile.
Hope this helps

I actually installed ubuntu 11.10 beta 2 which had gnome 3 installed on it. Whats funny is that it works nicely but then when I went to install the gnome shell extensions it started to act up again...

sad day, I tried to upgrade my gnome and it at first worked but I continued to get graphics issues. Then i decided to completely do a dist-upgrade to 11.10 with latest sources. It did work (with a...

I found my self in the same position as the OP. To get my network back on I needed to remove network-manager

sudo apt-get remove network-manager
once I did that I was able to do

sudo iwconfig...

I am writing this finding because I did a lot of searching to find this and hopefully will help others. Also I didn't find a good solution for booting "Hiren's boot cd"(I hope I am allowed to write...

Thank you for pointing this out, very useful guide! although not exactly beginner friendly, but sure is useful!

I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and i will try those Repos :D
This is the Repos that I am using:

ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa

I am getting an error with alsactl, I am using the nightly snapshots of the alsa driver (my gtx 470 doesn't like the stable alsa drivers for hdmi output. I am also using the Nvidia drivers not the...

Well thank you! It worked.

On my system compiz was working fine; until I did an update, It updated a few things like vlc and pidgin, but after I rebooted Compiz didn't want to start. I am not totally sure why.
My Graphics...

Saw that after August 20th my iplist/ipblock gave me that "No instance of iplist found" error. It is corrected if you remove bogon from the lists like jfroebe said.
Alternatively you can extract the...

Thank you very much, and thank you for the quick reply. Great application, It works perfect when you use it through usb, so I will use it that way. Again Thank you! and I was using the 1.5 beta on...

hello,
I've been wondering I have gotten this to work with usb, but with blue-tooth it connects and I get the led's to function properly but it doesn't want to do anything with the buttons, nothing...

Hello ubuntu forums,

I've been having a strange problem with my sixaxis on my ubuntu, Ive noticed that with some emulators I can configure the controler fine, but when i try to play supertux kart...

I'm on ubuntu 10.4 and Cant seem to falsely authenticate myself with my AP. I am trying to break a wep key on one of my older linksys routers; It continues to say this:

...

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forums and was wondering if I could get some help with Aircrack-ng. I have tried this tool befor on a friends laptop but wanted to try it on my own desktop. I will list...

I am having the same issue, It willnot go any farther than busybox

I have installed grub2 onto my usb drive while i have been able to boot ubuntu 9.10 I have tried DSL and Backtrack and neither want to boot (I may want to switch back to grub legacy). Either way I...

I am trying to make a multi boot usb I want to have backtrack and ubuntu 9.10 on my 8 gb usb drive. I dont want to install the actual distro on to it just its live cd (basically so i can boot a live...

You could make it work with out swap, it will just be harder on your physical ram, but swap is similar to the page file in windows

this was a clean install of 9.10... thank you so far.

-Kevin