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Thanks to help on the Nvidia Developer Forum I was able to get the Performance Mode (NVIDIA-only) working.

The final step was to have no xorg.conf at all and let ubuntu prime-select handle all...

So I still want to get the NVIDIA GPU running, that’s why I have this notebook :)

$ inxi -G


Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915
v:...

For everybody ending up on this post:

I am a big step further and have the drivers and X running.
What I was missing is that for some reason Xorg in current versions is reading-in not only...

Problem Description:
Starting any display manager (tried gdm, lightdm, sddm) while using nvidia drivers (tried 390, 440, 450, 455) after upgrading Ubuntu from 18.04. to 20.04. results in a black...

Dear Forum,

in my company we introduced a couple of CalDAV based calendars based on authorized read/write access.
I am personally using google calendar for years, and am looking for a way to keep...

4 month later and unfortunately I still have not found any solution.
is there somebody with some experience in fan control under linux?

Dear Forum,

I am struggling with loud fan noise since upgrading to 16.04. and can't get it under control.
I've searched google and the forums and tried all suggestions I could find, but am no...

same problem here.
tries all ideas and solutions I could find online.

Anybody with some experience with fan control?

Hello!

I just upgraded to 16.04. Since then I cannot cache passphrases of my ssh-keys anymore.
Before this was handled automatically by the system. I was prompted a GUI-prompt asking me for the...

So for everyone stumbling upon this, here is a workaround until this bug is fixed.

Check that you are suffering from this bug (hanging suspend task) by running

you should see something like

...

Hi kansasnoob,

thank you for your answer :)
Do you know, how I can find out if this bug applies to our situation?
I.e. how does that suspend task look like. Can I see it with ps?

If so, the...

Same problem here.


yields


There seems to be no solution online so far. Any ideas?

does work, but I'd like to be able to shutdown Ubuntu properly and not just cut the power.

Here's a small 9-step HowTo for everyone having trouble setting up Ubuntu to display nice Japanese fonts.

Thanks to lots of great people that helped me put these things together.

1. Activate...

Hey ian,

thanks, I think that's a viable strategy.
Can you tell me a good way to find memory leaking processes?

Yes it was more responsive.
Starting a video or game, my system gets unresponsive within a couple of minutes.
Without video or game, my system gets unresponsive within a couple of hours.

The...

Hi ian-weisser,

thanks for your thoughts, I think we are getting somewhere.


I did the above test this morning directly after starting up my Laptop (HP Compaq 15-h023).
So rebooting isn't...

here's the results, when running a game (System Shock 2).
I played that game a few months ago without any problem, now everything is too slow and laggy to do anything in the game.

$free
...

Dear forum,

since 2-3 weeks ago I noticed my system getting very slow. Especially when watching videos, but also just using firefox and thunderbird.
I used to play games like Wesnoth, this is no...

no ideas?

I recently created a persistent Pendrive Ubuntu (12.04) using usb-creator-gtk.
It works like a charm and I personalized it to suit my needs.

My only complaint is that user 'ubuntu' keeps getting...

Got myself also one of theses headsets and bilmey they work.
But those scurvy buttons made me marooned. So me decided to share some help and scripts with ya bunch of landlubbers. harrr


xmodmap...

In case somebody stumbles across the same issue:

The reason a second instance spawns is the DBUS.


from freedesktop.org

The DBUS sets an enviroment variable called:...

anybody encountered something like that and got an idea how to avoid this behavior?

Hey Forum!

I am trying to get XF86 Multimedia keys running.
I am using xbindkeys to give them meaning:


"/usr/bin/audacious2 -f"
XF86AudioNext

Now when audacious is already running and I...

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