Jason Hartley's questions

I want to install Ubuntu on a small ARM-based device (TrimSlice) to control a bitcoin mining device, but I have no need for a GUI. I don't want Xorg, I don't want Unity, no Nouveau, none of that. I want the ability to install .deb packages using apt-get and I want Ubuntu because I'm familiar with it.

I already had Ubuntu 12.04 on this device previously, but upgrading Ubuntu caused the machine to fail to boot. I want to start over with whichever version makes sense, but mostly I just want only a command line.

I upgraded to 13.04 last night. When I rebooted and logged in, this is what I saw.

How can I fix this?

I love System Load Indicator (indicator-multiload), but it doesn't reflect the usage of the individual CPU cores, just the overall CPU usage. Sometimes I'll have an application max out a single core (ahem, Eclipse), but when I glance at the CPU usage graph, everything looks acceptable.

I know I can just open Htop, but the whole point of an application indicator is being able to get the information you want with a glance, not keystrokes. Thanks.

When I boot, it goes straight into tty1. I have tried everything I could find online to solve this problem. I believe it has something to do with the Nvidia drivers. But reinstalling them in every possible way makes no difference. I am at a complete loss. My question is very similar to this question which never got answered: https://askubuntu.com/questions/132742/mountall-disconnected-from-plymouth

the boot ends with this:

mountall: Plymouth command failed
mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth

in syslog:

NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux grphics driver
NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.

in Xorg.0.log:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to assign any connected display devices to X screen 0
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failing initialization of X screen 0
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error: no screens found
Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

I'm running 12.04 Precise on a 64-bit AMD. I have an Nvidia GT 630 video card.

I have many folders in my home directory that have names that begin with special characters such as _OLD_500GB_HD or !FolderIWantToSeeAtTheTop, but for some reason these folders are sorted according to their first alphanumeric character rather than the leading special character.

So how can I force the folder to not ignore the special character, or how else can I make the sort view organize certain folders at the top or bottom of the sort? Thanks.