I have upgraded to 21.04 from 20.10 and after the upgrade for some reason Ubuntu shows a icon on desktop of the / folder which I am unable to remove. Also when this happens it doesn't show the other partitions of Windows eventhough I have disabled fast boot. Here is a screenshot:
If you need further info by running a command please let me know.
I have Kubuntu 18.10 installed on my PC and I noticed that there are times that after waking up the system from suspend I get a black screen and the mouse cursor and nothing else. I tried to figure out what is going on and I noticed that this may happen as well when the screen goes after X minutes and I move the cursor to turn it back on. First I thought that it was a GPU driver problem, but after several reinstallations of nVidia drivers (410/415) I managed to do nothing. I also read somewhere that a corrupted ~/.config folder may be the case to cause such issues, but after deleting it and restarting the system the problem still persists. I have a GTX1060 (6GB) if that matters. If you need to post any log files or the output of a command(s) please do not hesitate to ask.
I have a Creative Soundblaster Z SB1570 (yeah I know big mistake) and I read somewhere that the 4.18 kernel will have better support for this card. My question is how can I make it work earlier using this kernel before the kernel update will be released officially to all 18.04 users? I read also that there is a patch for this card. Is this needed as well?
I am sorry if my question is too broad, but basically I need the steps that I need to follow in order to make the sound card work properly.
P.S.: I tried myself to install this specific kernel and I succeeded, but I didn't get the sound card to work properly.
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I am trying over the last 6 hours to install CUDA on Ubuntu 17.04 Gnome with an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB but with no success. I tried the following:
Do you have any idea what could I do so I can have the correct driver, CUDA version and a working OS? I pretty much tried many things that I found here and around the web but again no luck at all.
If there is something I missed here on askubuntu which solves my problem please point it out and mark as duplicate my question. ( I am sorry for the duplicate if it exists :) .)
I would like to print multiple files using lp or lpr.The problem is that no matter how hard I have tried I can't make it print the files that I want in colour. Also I would like to add a lines counter on the printed files if this is possible of course.If lp or lpr are not capable of doing so please feel free to suggest another solution.
I want to add media keys for Totem and Adobe Flash player to the sound menu in the upper bar of Unity.Is there a way to do this?
Here is a screenshot of what I mean:
If it is not possible to do it in general for the Adobe Flash Player then I am mainly interested for the Youtube page.
Is there a way to make Nautilus Search Engine look for Music Metadata like Artist name, Album, Year, Composers,etc... and make it show the results according these Metadata?
I am interested mostly for mp3 files.
I have two SSDs.The first one has Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Windows 8.1 Pro.The second one has Kali Linux installed.Since I installed Kali Linux after Ubuntu and Windows 8.1 Pro it's bootloader now is in use.The problem is when I remove the second SSD I am not able to boot on the operating systems of the first SSD,because grub can't find the second SSD and grub-rescue launches instead.Is it possible somehow to make this triple boot system able to work even when the second SSD is missing?
I tried grub-install /dev/sda1 (sda1 is the partition in which Ubuntu is installed) but I get an error which says:
attempting to install grub to a partitionless disk or to a partition. this is a BAD IDEA.
I tried also grub-install /dev/sda which didn't gave any errors or warnings but when I tested it by removing the second SSD grub-rescue launched again for the same aforementioned reason.
I tried grub-install --force /dev/sda , grub-install --force /dev/sda1 , grub-setup /dev/sda , grub-setup /dev/sda1 , grub-setup --force /dev/sda1 , grub-setup --force /dev/sda but with no luck.
I read from here that Ubuntu 14.04 has native Optimus Technology support.Is this true or do I have to install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers?
If I have to install a proprietary driver which one is the correct for me?As you can see from the screenshot I get four options for proprietary drivers:
What is the difference between an NVIDIA legacy binary proprietary driver and a binary only proprietary driver?
On Ubuntu 13.10 in Login screen there was an option for Remote Login.Where is this option in Ubuntu 14.04?How can I enable it?
Why is everybody keep mentioning to disable Fast Boot on Windows 8 if you have installed alongside Ubuntu? Is it something that is recommended only for UEFI machines or is it a suggestion for Legacy BIOS machines as well? Is it because it makes the Windows partition inaccessible from Linux or there is another more serious reason to disable it?
I face this weird problem when it comes to login to my Ubuntu system.
It doesn't happen all the time.When it happens I press the Enter button and after that the system shows the normal login screen.
Does anybody have any idea why is this happening? I do not understand what the system is trying to tell me with all these messages that it shows.
I have a Thinkpad W520 and it has a Pantone colour calibrator.I looked it up here and in Google Search but as it seems the gnome colour manager can't use it as calibrating device at all(maybe there is no driver at all to do so,but anyway this is not the key issue). So I was wondering if there is any other colour calibrating hardware(from Pantone or any other decent company) which will be compatible with Ubuntu.There is I am asking this is because I have noticed that in Windows 7 where the Pantone colour calibrator of my laptop works,the eye strain is not happening so often it when it happens it usually is noticeable after a 2-3 hours where in Ubuntu I get it usually after 40 minutes of continuous use.
If by the way there is a way to make Ubuntu to use the colour of the laptop if you do not mind please explain to avoid any additional expenses from the purchase of a new colour calibration hardware.
Is there a way to make Hardinfo to display results on "Sensors" section?Currently as much long I wait it doesn't display anything.I have installed lm-sensors if that matters,but still nothing.
Like the title says the Update Manager doesn't show up automatically,like it used to do, when there are available updates.To be more specific ,the only way I can update my packages/installed programs is either via Terminal or run open manually the Update Manager.Does anybody know how can I fix that?
Is there any way to make Ubuntu 12.04 understand when it should suspend or not in terms of the software that is currently running?
For example, if I am installing something and it takes more than 10 minutes, which is the time limit for my PC to suspend, then I do not want my system to system to suspend till the installation of the program is finished. If my system is inactive I want it to suspend,but on the other hand if something is running I do not want to suspend.
I have made a custom icon for burg loader for my Lenovo Recovery Partition.I have made 3 icons :
large_qdrive.png (128 X 128 pixels)
small_qdrive.png (24 X 24 pixels)
grey_qdrive.png (128 x 128 pixels)
The .png icons that I created I made them using gimp from a qdrive.ico file that I found in the Lenovo Recovery Partition.
I transferred the icons to the /boot/burg/themes/icons folder and I added to the class list of the grey,large,small and the hover files the following lines :
-qdrive { image = "$$/large_qdrive.png" } in the large file
-qdrive { image = "$$/small_qdrive.png" } in the small file
-qdrive { image = "$$/grey_qdrive.png" } in the grey file
-qdrive { image = "$$/grey_qdrive.png:$$/large_qdrive.png" } in the hover file
I ran sudo update-burg and after that I modified the following line in the burg.cfg file :
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" --class windows --class os {
to
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" --class qdrive --class os {
and I also tried to change the title for the Lenovo Recovery Partition,so I tried this as well:
menuentry "Lenovo Recovery Partition (on /dev/sda2)" --class qdrive --class os {
None of this tries enforced actually burg loader to use the custom icon that I made and I can't figure out why.
I have to mention also that there are a few themes that I have installed in burg which actually are able to use the small_qdrive.png icon that I made,but all the others which use either the large_qdrive.png or the grey_qdrive.png weren't able to use the custom icons.
I have double checked for typos in all the files that I have created or I modified,so I am pretty sure that I haven't misspelled anything.
I have checked also the title of the custom icons that I made and neither of them have a typo.
I have looked also if there are any other folder that the themes might use to retrieve the icons,but it seems that all of them except for **Fortune** theme,which I downloaded from OMG!UBUNTU,use the icons folder which is located in /boot/burg/themes/icons
I tried to add the custom icons to the icons folder of the theme **Fortune**,but still nothing happened.
After several minutes(I do not know how many) there is no internet connection on my laptop via Wi-Fi.Ubuntu doesn't show any kind of message that my WiFi was disconnected neither there is a signal drop,but suddenly Firefox stops connecting to web pages.I checked my modem/router and it seems that it is working fine.I tried also to reboot the WiFi device and nothing happens.The only thing that it makes it work again is a reboot of the system and if I do not want to do a reboot then I am enforced to connect to the Internet using Ethernet cable.Does anybody know what is happening?
## Some Hardware info that might be helpful ##
el10780@ThinkPad-W520:~$ sudo lshw -class network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eth0
version: 04
serial: f0:de:f1:f1:be:10
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=1.5.1-k duplex=full firmware=0.13-3 ip=192.168.0.10 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:50 memory:f3a00000-f3a1ffff memory:f3a2b000-f3a2bfff ioport:6080(size=32)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 5e
serial: 64:80:99:63:14:74
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.2.0-26-generic firmware=41.28.5.1 build 33926 ip=192.168.0.6 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:52 memory:f3900000-f3901fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@2:1.3
logical name: wmx0
serial: 00:1d:e1:53:b2:e8
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: driver=i2400m firmware=i6050-fw-usb-1.5.sbcf link=no
el10780@ThinkPad-W520:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family KT Controller (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b4)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [Quadro 1000M] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 (rev 5e)
0d:00.0 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e823 (rev 08)
0d:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 PCIe IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
0e:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04)
el10780@ThinkPad-W520:~$ rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: i2400m-usb:2-1.3:1.0: WiMAX
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
The weirdest thing is this screenshot which I took after running the **Additional Drivers** program.I mean I have a NVidia Quadro 1000M and my Intel Centrino WiFi Card and this shows that there are not proprietay drivers for my system.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/screenshotfrom201207062.png/
I would like to ask if there is any good program for ubuntu 12.04 to organize a library of books.I want to mention that I also have books written in my native language (Greek) and I have books written in other languages like English,French, etc too .So basically I need an application which can fetch information from databases for Greek books.
For example - Adding a Greek (ISBN) book database source and when I type the ISBN of the book in the program ,it should find the book from that databases.
Is this possible? I already tried Tellico and GCstar but they were unable to find books with Greek ISBN .I tried to add a Greek book source but it wasn't successful.
