I have my laptop set to maximum brightness, but it's not bright enough. Is it possible to somehow make it brighter?
ORIGINAL QUESTION UPDATE 1:
Including Additional Drivers screenshot. I have tried installing both 361.42 and 340.96 and both times, I get a blank screen after restarting.
ORIGINAL QUESTION:
When I install the nvidia driver for ubuntu and then restart, I get a blank screen. I have no tried 2 of the nvidia drivers and both times I get a blank screen.
How do I install the nvidia drivers and not get a blank screen?
Did a google search and it seems I'm the first to encounter this issue since 16.04 has been released:
When installing Ubuntu, you get a Free software only option.
Does that Free software only option mean Free as in beer or Free as in freedom? When I say free as in freedom, I mean FSF type of freedom.
Image source: How do I make Ubuntu use only free software?
Is it possible to decrypt TrueCrypt containers using dm-crypt?
I have some container files created with TrueCrypt and I just wanted to know if it's possible to decrypt them using dm-crypt so I can stop using TrueCrypt and use something more opensource like dm-crypt.
How do I connect to my remote sftp account using ubuntu's "Connect to Server" option? When I have the "Connect to Server" dialog box on my screen, the "Service type" only shows:
- FTP (with login)
- Public FTP
Those are the only FTP options I can see in the dropdown. No SFTP option?
I have a usb stick which is unreadable for some reason. I want to make an image of it for storage purposes so I can try to retrieve the data from the image at a later date.
How would I go about creating such a bit identical image of a usb stick?
This is the error I get when using dd:
oshirowanen@desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdd of=/USB_image
[sudo] password for oshirowanen:
dd: reading `/dev/sdd': Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 1.00783 s, 0.0 kB/s
oshirowanen@desktop:~$
I have about 70 mp4 files, and I want to extract the audio files directly without transcoding further. All the mp4 files have aac audio files.
I understand I can use the following command to extract the audio file from one of the mp4 files:
avconv -i "INPUT FILE" -map 0:1 -c:a copy "OUTPUT FILE"
How do I extract all the audio files from all the 70 mp4 files, so I end up with 70 aac files?
I have a 3TB HDD. In the properties screen of the HDD, it says that I have used 471.4GB, but when I select all the files in nautilus, it says that 321.0GB is selected. If I only have 321.0GB of files in the HDD, why is it using 471.4GB?
The HDD's partitioning is using GUID and file system being used in EXT4. When I select the HDD using Disk Utility app, I get a warning saying:
WARNING: The partition is misaligned by 3072 bytes.
This may result in very poor performance. Repartitioning is suggested.
Has that got anything to do with the missing 150.4GB?
How can I copy files/folders from an ubuntu computer on a ext4 filesystem to another ubuntu computer which also is on an ext4 filesystem, using a usb stick which uses a vfat filesystem without losing file permissions?
I've tried the basic ctrl-c from source computer, then ctrl-v to usb, then ctrl-c from usb then ctrl-v to target computer, and none of the file/folder permissions stay intact.
I would like to try out the opus audio encoder, but can't find it in the repositories. Can anyone here help me get it installed on my computer? I have some wav files which I would like to convert to the opus audio format.
However, I have found this link, but each time I click on the appropriate deb download, the package manager opens, but displays an error message saying that there are dependency issues (lib0gg0).
If I have a wireless and a usb internet connection on my Ubuntu 12.04 as in:
At the moment, Ubuntu seems to only make use of the Wired connection which is the usb connection. Is it possible to get ubuntu to use the wireless connection without unplugging the wired connection?
So basically, as will, I would like to switch between the connections without unplugging any of them while leaving them both enabled.
Is this possible?
On my 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 on an Intel Core i3 processor which has 16Gb RAM and a M4 SSD, NetBeans is very sluggish as well as the known problem where NetBeans does not use Ubuntu 12.04's global menu. That problem aside, why is NetBeans so slow, it's even slower than Eclipse!
Please have a look at this video: http://youtu.be/utLQD5Gpg0M
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How do I add a user to the “sudo” group?
I've added myself back into the admin's group I think, by following this.
But I still can't do commands like:
sudo aptitude update
I get the message
oshirowanen is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
How do I add myself into the sudoers group now that I am in the admin group?
According to this page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/32bit_and_64bit
the following Intel CPU's are 64bit:
Intel
F and 5x1 series Pentium 4 using the "Prescott" core
Pentium D
Core 2 (Solo, Duo & Quad)
Core i5 (all)
Core i7 (all)
Isn't the Core i3 64 bit too?
I seem to have found a bug in 12.04 while it's booting, but all the questions on this site seem to point users to reporting bugs once the desktop is up and running by using ubuntu-bug.
How do I report a bug where I can't use ubuntu-bug and where I don't know the package name?
After burning Ubuntu 12.04 to a CD, I tried booting and got the message:
This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
pae
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.
What does this mean?
I currently have a single old graphics card to which I have connected 2 monitors giving me a big desktop of 2560x1024. If I get 2 of the following graphics card:
Will I be able to connect 2 monitors per graphics card, giving me a total resolution of 5120x1024? I guess what I'm asking is, will I simply be able to stick both graphics cards in, plug the monitors in and will it all just work out of the box?
I currently have 4 dvi monitors which have a native resolution of 1280x1024 each.
I am very paranoid about wireless connections and someone stealing my broadband bandwidth, which could lead to worse things.
My question is, how can I detect if my broadband bandwidth is being stolen?
I have a Belkin SURF+ N300 wireless router.
Ideally, it would be cool if I would get alerted automatically, but if that is not possible, then a manual process would be fine.
Installing MySQL workbench on 10.04 or 10.10 is not a problem, as the deb packages are available on MySQL's website. But there is no 11.04 deb package available.
So, how do I install MySQL workbench on 11.04 and keep it updated automatically when updates become available to ubuntu via apt-get update.
I've just done a fresh install of Ubuntu (10.04.1) plus LAMP (via sudo tasksel install lamp-server) and everything is working fine. However, it does so until I need to work on localhost when I do not have an internet connection. For example, as soon as I unplug the ethernet cable from the NIC, localhost and 127.0.0.1 stop working.
The message I get from the browser is:
This web page is not available.
Then, as soon as I plug the ethernet cable into the laptop again, everything is back to normal again. I need to work on localhost sometimes when I do not have access to the internet.
Any idea how to fix this problem? I had this problem before, but can't remember what I did to resolve it.