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Hello.
First off, this post is about an linux mint installation.

I have two hard drives on my computer, sda and sdb. sda is old and has windows XP and linux mint 17. sdb is brand new and I...

I'm trying to install Linux mint and I got the Live USB to boot. I installed the Nvidia driver on the live USB and also updated the kernel to 3.19 (without which the driver doesn't seem to work)....

Thanks...that worked. I suppose I forgot to check the windows side of things

(I'm running samba on a raspberry pi)
I've mounted a windows share using samba using the following entry in fstab.

//192.168.1.70/H/windowsShare /media/mountPoint cifs ...

I'm reading up on the linux kernel and I understand that linux kernel driver modules allow the OS to interact with devices on the computer (PC or mobile device, in the case of android). However,...

Thanks for the help guys.

The problem seemed to solve it self. I defragmenteded the hard drive in windows and after one or two reboots, it started showing all the partitions. I also ran the...

Ok.. I will run those commands and post the output. Meanwhile, I found this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525.aspx that explains that all GPT drives also have something...

This post is about Gparted and not about Ubuntu in particular.
Recently, I installed windows 8.1 using UEFI and the GPT partition scheme. However, the hard driver previously had windows 7.

I...

Did you mange to solve this issue? I'm considering buying this laptop.

Does the HP probook 4540s work properly with Ubuntu? I tried searching on the "supported laptops" sticky thread but I didn't find it there.
The model I'm considering has an ATI graphics card. (and...

I'm trying to install the latest version of libreoffice on my Ubuntu PC. (running Ubuntu 10.04)
I've added the following PPA
http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu

However,
when I...

I'm trying to set up an FTP server for home use so that I can download files on my Linux computer to other devices over Wifi. I've read some of the tutorials on the forums and on other websites.
I...

Well I tried purging the Nvidia drivers and it worked .. to an extent. I can now login to Ubuntu without it crashing. However, I only have video on my VGA monitor and there doesn't seem to be any...

Thanks for the quick reply.
So I don't need to worry about purging the current nvidia drivers?

What's the procedure for doing that?

Since yesterday, my Ubuntu system has become completely unusable. It freezes just after log in or just after I open the very first application window. The keyboard and mouse do not respond so I can't...

I have an Nvidia card and because of all the problems with the normal driver in the repos, I installed the 302.17 driver from the Ubuntu-X ppa.

However, Unity 3D seems to be a bit slow:
The...

Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and found out that the 'stock' nvidia driver didn't work with my Nvidia card (Nvidia Geforce 7100/ nforce 630i).

So I added this repository...

Hello everyone:
I recently intalled Ubuntu Using WUBI.
However, all text on the screen appears very small. (Screen resolution is 1920 x 1080).

I tried increasing the font size in firefox but...

thanks mate.. :D

Thanks.. I'll try that. I have to update my verison of Ubuntu first though.

Why should I post in a separate thread? I have exactly the same printer (HP deskjet 1000 j110) and exactly the same issue. I believe it is better to post in an old thread rather than open a new one.....

I have the same problem. Apparently, Ubuntu should already come install with the Linux drivers (search software center for "HPLIP". It should be there). However, printing doesn't work. In my...

Thanks.

thanks for the comments.. and advice. :D I'll try to make some more pics later..