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System76 support: I was downloading the windows drivers from http://knowledge76.com/index.php/DarU4 for my new Daru UlatraThin, and the airplane mode driver is missing ".exe" in the link. I wasn't...

I feel silly. The drivers are on their knowledgebase. http://knowledge76.com/index.php/DarU4. The UEFI partition tables are new to me, but that can be figured out.

Has anyone loaded windows 7 or 8.1 on this model, or know where I'd get any specific drivers? My Serval Performance (serp4) I got a few years back came with some windows cd's for drivers which were...

I think that'll be the way to go. I could take or leave blu-ray for my laptop, so I'll probably just save the money and get a dvd rw without one.

I just got my Darter UltraThin this week, my second System76 laptop. I didn't pay enough attention when I bought it, and didn't realize it didn't come with an optical drive. Does anyone have a...

Thanks for the link. I tried it, and it caused what showed in gnome alsa mixer to be completely blank -- no buttons to click, no options dropdowns. Blank like that it shows I have "Realtek ID 768"....

I followed the steps from this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1471262&page=4

What happened was I lost my soft keys for managing sound (volume, etc.) and it still stuttered. Looks...

Yup. I'd tried disabling it based on some other posts, but all that did was make it so my laptop soft keys for sound didn't work -- sound was still stuttering.

In a new 64 bit install of ubuntu 12.04 I get randomly choppy / stuttered sound in videos like http://watchtheguild.com and with ogg and mp3 sound playback. I only get the stuttering with the...

Oh, I'm happy to give the new UI a try. If there wasn't going to be an easy way to launch programs without memorizing them, though, it was going to get tossed away fast. As is, if I can't get sound...

I'm also seeing the issue in ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) on my serp4. I'd seen it in older ubuntu releases as well. One interesting bit is I only see it in gnome -- if I log into kde instead video/sound...

I was looking for how to search through the applications. Typing in semi-random names to look for apps isn't very user-friendly. It'd be nice if I could open up the right side bar options...

Ah, that will help. It's pretty close to what I was looking for. Thanks.


I'm pretty sure it was that. I think it was 11.10 where there was no going back to the old ubuntu setup. It wasn't a...

I've upgraded my 11.04 System76 laptop to Ubuntu 12.04. How do I find programs with the Dash thing? It feels like I'm guessing to discover what programs are installed.

The old "Start" menu has...

I fixed it on the linux side and didn't use the zip file.

I've found that sound playback is quite jerky in my Ubuntu 10.10 system. For example, when playing an mp3 with Amarok, I may get 15 seconds or so of good quality playback, but then the music will...

Update: KDE does not have the sound issue Gnome has.

I logged into KDE instead of the Gnome desktop, and loaded the same mp3 file I've been testing with into Amarok, which is the program I've been...

Ok, I was finally able to try a 10.10 LiveCD. (What a rotten pain in the neck to set up mp3 playback, and it never quite worked, anyway.) I was able to try some ogg vorbis files, and they also...

How do I verify that, or is Pulseaudio the only choice in 10.10?


It was an upgrade. I've had the same issue on fresh installs of earlier versions, though. I'll try a LiveCD and let you know...

I had it for a while in 10.04, and have seen the behavior on and off through several releases. It's one of those things that "hurt when I did it" so I mostly have avoided sound, I think.

It's...

I've found that sound playback is quite jerky in my Ubuntu 10.10 system. For example, when playing an mp3 with Amarok, I may get 15 seconds or so of good quality playback, but then the music will...

Complete removal worked just fine for me, by the way. A good chunk of the reason I like to have fewer kernels is I dual boot with XP, and XP is way down at the bottom of the list. Yes, I'm that...

I'm trying to prune my ever-growing list of kernels when I boot (ubuntu 10.10). From various articles I see that I should search for "linux-image" and then either choose "removal" or "complete...

An excellent lead. In ubuntu the magic is in /etc/init/rcS. There is a variable called "UTC" that is set to yes by default, and I set it to no. When I rebooted into windows the time was the same. ...

I'm trying to find a way to keep ubuntu from changing my hardware clock to GMT when I set the time. Specifically linux likes to keep the hardware clock on GMT and then apply the time zone offset...