CodyLoco's questions

I have an Asus G73JW laptop with a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 x64.

While I'm using the laptop, it works quite well - but if I leave the laptop unattended for a while, I come back it will have a black screen and won't come back. I've also noticed the laptop is really hot. It seems like the fans go down to minimum, and maybe that causes the laptop to overheat and freeze? I have another laptop that seems to have the same symptoms - a Dell Inspiron 1445 - however I don't find it hot.

I can't tell whether it's that the computer hangs while the fans just by chance are running too low, and it gets hot because of it, or if it hangs because it gets hot.

Any ideas or suggestions on how to troubleshoot? I did not have these issues on 13.10!

I have a G73JW laptop using Ubuntu 12.04. It has an Atheros AR9285 card.

While wifi seems to work fine most of the time, about every hour or two it will loose the connection to the internet. The connection will appear to be connected still to the wireless router, but internet access is gone.

Disconnecting and reconnecting to the access point solves the problem, as does disabling and reenabling the adapter via the hardware keyboard shortcut.

How might this be solved so the connection is stable and doesn't drop?

EDIT: It looks like the network dropping isn't related to DNS as it fails either way:

codyloco@CodyLoco-Ubuntu:~$ dig askubuntu.com @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> askubuntu.com @8.8.8.8
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
codyloco@CodyLoco-Ubuntu:~$ dig askubuntu.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> askubuntu.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Again cycling (disabling / enabling) the adapter corrects the issue.

I have an Asus G73JW laptop which has an internal subwoofer built-in. Currently, the system detects the internal speakers as a 2.0 system (or I can change do 4.0 is the only other option). I found a bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/673051 which discusses the bug and according to them a fix was sent upstream back at the end of 2010. I would have thought this would have made it into 12.04 but I guess not?

I tried following the link given at the very bottom to install the latest ALSA drivers, here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/InstallingLinuxAlsaDriverModules however I keep running into an error when trying to install:

sudo apt-get install linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-alsa-driver-modules-3.2.0-24-generic
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-alsa-driver-modules-3.2.0-24-generic'

I believe I have added the repository correctly:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa
[sudo] password for codyloco: 
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
 This PPA will be used to provide testing versions of packages for supported Ubuntu releases.
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.7apgZoNrqK --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ --recv 4E9F485BF943EF0EABA10B5BD225991A72B194E5
gpg: requesting key 72B194E5 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 72B194E5: public key "Launchpad Ubuntu Audio Dev team PPA" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

And I also ran an update as well (followed the instructions on the fix above).

Any ideas?