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Well, the problem is resolved in the sense that I have my GUI back, although I don't think I did it in a very smart way. I just took my 14.04 live DVD and reinstalled 14.04 from it. I made sure...

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I had 14.04 up and running for months with no problems. Then, after several weeks of inactivity, I turned on my PC and rebooted (with no problems) and used the update manager to install...

The answer is that one has to use g++ not gcc. The #include <iostream> only makes sense to g++.

I am teaching myself C++ and have been writing some simple programs; compiling them with gcc -o myprog myprog.cc
Yesterday everything was working fine. Today the same programs that use #include...

OK, I found a solution that seems to work. First thing to do is to go to AMD site, http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-linux-beta-driver.aspx, that announces the "AMD Catalyst 14.4...

I just installed 14.04, and I have a graphics card AMD Radeon R7 260X that does not work with the built-in drivers for 14.04. The AMD website claims to have a driver that is a 14.04 "candidate"...

Thank you ajgreeny. Putting everything in john ownership did the trick (at least for libreoffice writer--so I suppose it will work for the other libreoffice programs as well).
I have no idea how or...

After "sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*" takes out the software, I notice now that /home/john/.config still has a libreoffice subdirectory. If I go down further I find...

Actually if I just do ls -la from /home/john, the entry for .gvfs has a lot of question marks and it's ownership cannot be changed (function not implemented). I changed all root-owning directories...

Reply to Buckyball: The ubuntu version is 13.10 (64) and the Libreoffice is whatever comes with that. It came preinstalled and I just clicked on its icon in the Ubiquity GUI (left-hand side). ...

I cannot open Libreoffice because I get the following error message in a pop-up window.

The application cannot be started.
LibreOffice user installation could not be processed due to missing...

Thanks for the link...I found how to edit the grub file and now my system boots up without human intervention. The driver is being recognized but I am not sure it is really being used. Anyway, I...

I was finally able to download, extract a package from the AMD site that seems to be a version of the catalyst software that actually works with 13.10.


Installing Catalyst Manually (from...

I was able to get rid of the earlier fglrx files with sudo apt-get purge fglrx. The proprietary installation proceeded but failed. Here is the output from the install log

Supported adapter...

Running the installer with "sudo" results in a message saying that there is another fglrx installed. The log file says

Supported adapter detected.


[Error]A previous installation of fglrx...

Yes I did, but I forgot to "sudo" and so the script hung. I will be back after I do it correctly.

I have tried pretty much everything that has been suggested. I purged all the fglrx and then after downloading and unpacking the zip files from the AMD site I tried

sudo apt-get install fglrx*
...

Here is a copy-and-’paste of some text in the bug report..."DuplicateSignature: dkms:fglrx:2:13.251-0ubuntu1:/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/13.251/build/2.6.x/kcl_acpi.c:999:5: error: too few arguments to...

OK I will try nomodset and see what happens.

OK I edited the line to substitute nomodeset for splash. The system booted to the GUI...BUT the fglrx213.251-Obuntu1 is a bug report that came up on my...

The build for the .deb files fails (cf earlier posts to this thread), and since that is true and since I am only following a seemingly authoritative source (cf earlier copies-and-paste), I don't...

OK I am at the "Chipsets" category in the BIOS (I'm logged in here on a different computer). There are a few main categories: IOH Configuration, Compatibility RID, Memory Configuration,
DIMM...

Thanks for the Onboard Video tip. Now I should be able to reboot without trembling. I let you know how things turn out.

Thanks for that very detailed reply. I just have one question: At present I am using a graphics driver that is included on the motherboard. It works more-or-less ok but is limited in what it can...

Here is a copy and paste of the relevant parts of the log file:

/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/13.251/build/2.6.x/kcl_acpi.c:999:5: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘(acpi_status (*)(u32, void *, void...

I am just following the step-by-step indicated in the web link. I did run the .run file. After that, according to the step-by-step, one is supposed to issue the follwoing two commands. The first...