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There has to be a simple answer to this. When I boot from my flash drive and TRY Ubuntu 20.04 the keyboard brightness controls work perfectly, as does the screen lock which goes to total blackout...

I'm thrilled to discover I actually helped someone for a change. I'm usually the one getting the help.

Glad to be a contributing member of the Ubuntu community!

Going to do this quick and dirty because my brain is toast. 12 hours in and I still have no solution. Am trying to PXE boot using tftp-hpa and get a tftp time out error. I've looked at all the...

I am thrilled to report that the "vga dummy" hardware workaround presented at the links in my previous post really works! I purchased a couple packages of 100 ohm resistors from the local Radio...

I'm having an extremely irritating issue with my Ubuntu 14,04. The left click is not working correctly. I can only get a left click to work with shift+left click, otherwise it turns to a hand and...

I have spent several hours on this now and been unable to find a software solution. Meaning, there is no consistent way to get Ubuntu to start a desktop environment without a monitor attached.
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Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there have been zero responses, because it's plain from all the evidence I could find that there is no other solution than to SSH into the machine and...

So my research has led me to refine my question, because I now understand that the gui is designed NOT to launch if no monitor is detected. I've seen several posts that speak of workarounds, but none...

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 (all updates current) on computer A and anytime I try to remote into computer A using Teamviewer from any other computer it ONLY works if I have a monitor attached to...

It's amazing how the obvious solution sometimes eludes us. I was looking at the app names in the Nautilus gui, duh!! As soon as I looked it up via the command line I got the answer, it's oddly named...

Ubuntu 14.04 with gnome-3 and the Docky app.

I'm fairly new to using Docky, and have found that sometimes it is necessary to add apps manually as the "pin to Dock" feature doesn't always work. In...

Still no joy after reading everything I can find and trying a variety of things. Could really use some additional help here. Is it really that difficult to configure an S-video out port. I really...

I'm cool with an earlier distro, as long as it really is a path to success. The end (a working s-video to TV) will justify any means at this point. Reading your link now...

As usual I'm posting after spending at least 2 hours researching and trying to find the answer on my own. Apparently each situation with display configurations, X, xrandr and the like is unique and...

Anyone have any thoughts on using DD to individually image each disk? Any success stories, or nightmare failures would certainly be educational.

What about LVM? I don't have my current array set...

There seem to be a variety of methods available to image a single standard HDD with Clonezilla leading the way, but when the issue is a RAID 5 Clonezilla is useless, and there is no apparent...

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a system with an Nvidia 9600gtx gpu with 2-dvi and 1-svideo out. I'm using this system as a simple way to view videos and streamed TV shows etc... on a tv through the...

Beuller... Bueller... ?? Anyone??

Well, I guess I can enjoy the fact that I did it all by myself!

The final issue was resolved by putting the complete /path/to/hdparm in the script. That...

Well, it seems I am my own best teacher tonight.

I gave the necessary permissions to the script file and the cronjob attempts to run, but it issues an error, "/root/scripts/disk_spindown.sh: line...

So, I've learned a great deal in the past couple hours. The WD Red NAS drives have the same known issue as the Caviar Green drives with a head parking issue. I've disabled that function and created a...

Ok, the info is coming in fast and furious now. Apparently my 4tb WD RED NAS drives do not support APM (advanced power management) which is needed for this automated spin down according to another...

I just read a post that indicates mdadm monitoring could be the issue? I do have mdadm monitoring enabled and configured to send me emails, so maybe it is "pinging" the disks and keeping them awake....

I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed on a RAID 1 mirror and 4 separate disks in a RAID 5. I cannot get the RAID 5 disks to spin down. I've installed hdparm and edited the /etc/hdparm.conf file and added the...

Yes, very odd and irritating. Since I have not yet found the cause or a solution, I attempted entering some credentials in the login dialog that the one Win7 machine presents, and I was successful...

I have Ubuntu 12.04 running with a Samba share configured that can be seen on all of my other computers, some Ubuntu some Win7. This is a public type share that does not require a password.

The...