I am one of the unfortunate who has the problem in 13.10 whereby my reboot/shutdown button is missing from the menu bar. After googling around I found the bug being submitted but the fixes (which apparently didnt work) looked like manually downloading all sorts of Ubuntu source codes and lots of other scary stuff. Is … Read more
I’ve got constant problem, after instaling Ubuntu 13.10. I get no sound from the audio jack (speakers, headphones etc) but my internal speakers work right, playing sound as they should. Tried many “workarounds”a found here, but not even one seems to fix the problem … My laptop is ASUS K55VM, if You need any command-output … Read more
I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on a dual-boot setup, across a RAID 0 (2x 300GB). When I insert the Ubuntu CD it says I can: Install alongside Get rid of both Something else When I go to “something else” it shows I have the following partitions: Linux1 ext4 60GB Ubuntu 12.04 Linux5 swap … Read more
I just switched to Ubuntu 13.10 and I’m trying to install VMplayer in order to run windows based applications. The installation went good but when I try to open VMplayer it displays an error saying that several modules must be compiled and loaded into the running kernel. Specifically is asking for Kernel headers-3.11.0-14-generic How can … Read more
I’m configuring a virtual firewall using Shorewall and have a rule to forward the external port 2222 to internal port 22: DNAT inet lan:192.168.1.2:22 tcp 2222 where 192.168.1.2 is the IP address of the firewall. But it doesn’t work! I don’t want to allow SSH directly (port 22) like this: SSH(ACCEPT) inet $FW How do … Read more
In Windows 8 you can set a max/min cpu speed percentage allowing you to use your cpu at a lower or higher P-State. For example, my cpu has a default speed of 2.3ghz (turbo 3.2ghz), however using the max/min settings I can underclock it to a stable 1.36ghz (which appears to be the lowest supported … Read more
I thought Ubuntu will automatically add new hard drives so I only attached them and booted the system. Ubuntu indeed added them but they look like USB flash drives and I can unmount them. How can I add them in a way they they look like a system partitions and not like some USB flash … Read more
In previous versions of Ubuntu, gedit had a wordwrap option available in the menu option Edit -> Preferences -> View -> Enable text wrapping. But in Ubuntu 13.10, I don’t see a Preferences menu anymore. How do I toggle word wrapping? Answer Oh, that ever-annoying app-menu! Thanks, @vasa1, that seems to have done the trick. … Read more
I’ve installed ubuntu on HP-pavilion. It has a ATI video card. I used to run windows7 on it just as a media centre. I want to do the same just with Ubuntu. I’ve found multiple topics with similar problems but none of the answers seem to help me. The output is listed with aplay -l … Read more
I cannot install ubuntu 13.10 on new HP Spectre 13, it boots onto black screen after selecting Install Ubuntu from bootable USB drive. Thoughts? Thank you. Here are the specs: Windows 8.1 64 • 4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U Processor + Intel(R) HD Graphics(For 8GB Memory) • Onboard 8GB DDR3 System Memory • 13.3-inch diagonal … Read more
