This version of Ubuntu, code-named Quantal Quetzal, was released on October 18, 2012. You should only use this tag if your question is hardware- or version-specific.
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Desktop does not show when I installed nvidia drivers!
The desktop does not show after I installed nvidia experimental drivers. I tried nvidia simple proprietary drivers, and they did not work either.
Here is how it looks. This is not cropped or any ...
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Can't install ATI proprietary drivers in 12.10
I have a laptop with ATI Radeon 6770M HD Hybrid graphics card. In Ubuntu 12.04, I installed the fglrx driver through "additional drivers" and it worked. (I can even switch GPUs). But in the new Ubuntu ...
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Nvidia driver doesn't work in 12.10
I have GeForce GTX 560 Ti. I's worked fine in 12.04 with nvidia drivers. Unfortunately, after todays 12.10 update, something broke down.
I've tried nvidia-current, nvidia-current-updates and ...
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How do I get an Acer Npilfy 802.11 wireless card working?
My Laptop is Acer 5742G with "Npilfy 802.11 wireless".
I have both windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10
Earlier when I had Ubuntu 12.04, the wireless was working fine, but after installing 12.10 wireless is ...
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12.10 UEFI Secure Boot install
Now that Secure Boot is supported, what special instructions does one have to follow to install Ubuntu 12.10 on a UEFI Secure Boot enabled PC shipped with Windows 8?
As I understand, 12.10 ships with ...
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Why is Wine not installable on my system?
So I upgraded on a fresh install to Ubuntu 12.10, not beta, and I've tried installing wine many many times now many different ways but the jist of it is this:
This error could be caused by required ...
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Super slow and laggy?
I'm a native Windows user, running 7 Home Premium atm. In the past I installed Ubuntu 10 on my netbook I believe, but was a bit 'scared' by it.
Anyways, I made a partition on my desktop pc, 100gb and ...
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How do I install Myunity on 12.10?
Basically as is the title how do you install Myunity on 12.10? I've tried adding the repository ppa:myunity/ppa and performing:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:myunity/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo ...
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How do I upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04?
I am using Ubuntu 12.10.
Please outline the different ways I can upgrade to 13.04.
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Is there a program to mount my all of my drives automatically?
Sometimes when I restart my computer my drives will mount but sometimes they won't (like right now when I'm typing this question out). Is there an easy way like a program that can mount them for me? ...
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Will it be possible to use a non-pae kernel in 12.10
I know that Ubuntu +1 questions are frowned upon, but this I believe is a fair exception. Currently I have 2 systems running Ubuntu 12.10, and one of them has a Pentium M that doesn't support PAE ...
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What's the difference between 12.04 and 12.10?
I have an Asus K55V and I'm wondering which version of Ubuntu I should be attempting to use. The website offers 12.04 (LTS) and 12.10.
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12.10 x64 - RTL8188CE - Intermittent/Slow Internet Connection
I have to reset my internet connection often to get it to work. When it does work, it's definitely slower than when I'm on my Windows installation. My computer uses an RTL8188CE wireless card from ...
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How to safely upgrade from an older Ubuntu version to a newer
How can I safely upgrade an Ubuntu installation from 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) to 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)? What should I do before upgrading to ensure it goes smoothly, and is there any clean-up I need ...
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Unable to install Skype on 12.10 64bit
I am receiving the following message while I am trying to install Skype:
nidhin@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
nidhin@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install skype
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 gets stuck in a Login Loop
My problem: As you can guess my Ubuntu 12.10 stucks in a login loop when trying to enter my desktop. Means the screen gets black and soon after that the login screen comes back. I'm a Ubuntu Newbie so ...
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OUCH! Laptop running SUPER HOT after 12.10 upgrade!
I was running 12.04 with Unity 3D for 6 months; my laptop ran almost silently and cool enough to hold on my lap with ~4 hours of battery life. I updated to 12.10 and switched to the Gnome 3 Shell. Now ...
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Drag and Drop across (fullscreen) applications, switching via Alt-Tab
Example
Drag media file onto Totem's playlist to enqueue
Bug in Compiz
Especially for Unity (formerly Netbook Edition, being intended for small screens) this is quite a vital feature, as ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Nvidia GT555M Bumblebee
I have laptop with Nvidia GT 555M video card.
System Ubuntu 12.10, kernel Linux 3.5.0-17-generic
step what i do:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo add-apt-repository ...
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Ubuntu says 13.04 but lsb_release says 12.10
During investigations on my Samsung New Series 9 with 12.10 installed on it, I found this :
Settings > details > Ubuntu 13.04
lsb_release > ubuntu 12.10
Is that possible ? I really think my ...
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Upgrading from 12.10 WUBI install to 13.04
Ubuntu has discontinued wubi.exe and i know that when you install the ubuntu 13.04 developer version with wubi you can only login as a guest. I have previously installed ubuntu 12.10 with wubi.exe if ...
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Dell Inspiron 5720 Wifi (Broadcom BCM43142, Ubuntu 12.10) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install BCM43142 wireless drivers for Dell Vostro 3460/3560?
I've installed Ubuntu 12.10 on Dell Inspiron 5720. Cant get wifi to work.
sudo lshw -C network:
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Radeon HD 2000, 3000, 4000 on 12.10 Quantal: fglrx (legacy) 12.6 unsupported, what to do?
After upgrading to 12.10 quantal, the packaged version of fglrx no longer works. I discovered that this is because there is a separate 'legacy' fglrx driver for the HD 2k-4k series cards, but it is ...
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Installing Wine on 64 Bit
I have tried to install wine through the software center and terminal and I get this error.
chris@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install wine1.5
[sudo] password for chris:
Reading package lists... Done
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Upgrade to 12.10 from 12.04 not available in update manager
My update manager does not give me the option to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10. That is, the "New distribution release '12.10' is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions" section is ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 driver for Epson XP-202
Can anyone advise me if there is a printer driver for an Epson XP-202 printer to work with Ubuntu 12.10?
If not, is there a workaround?
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Virtualbox DNS stopped working on upgrade to 12.10
I have a Debian image setup on Virtualbox that uses the default NAT to access the internet. It was working fine before I upgraded to 12.10. After I upgraded the DNS lookups no longer work. I still can ...
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Dual boot Surface Pro with Ubuntu?
How could I setup a dual boot for Ubuntu and Windows 8 on my Microsoft Surface Pro with 128 GB.
Note: My dual boot solution is below.
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How do I install Steam 64-bit when package dependencies cannot be resolved?
I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.10 on Wubi, and am trying to install Steam.
Notably, when I am trying to "buy" steam from the store, it reads
Package Dependencies cannot be resolved
This ...
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Brightness controls are not working in sony vaio with amd radeon hd 7650
I have a Sony Vaio SVE15116EN with AMD Radeon HD 7650 graphics card. I am currently using Ubuntu 12.10. My brightness controls are not working but sound controls are working fine. I have also tried ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 recognizes me only 3GB of free space
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 and it worked perfectly (during days), until now. Suddenly several error messages coming from anywhere tell me that I have no free space on the disk. And now the Disk ...
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How do I enable low graphics mode (llvmpipe rendering) in Unity?
I've been looking at other questions, but none seem to answer my query. The closest I got gave me information about a ppa for 12.04. My computer's battery life is suffering under Ubuntu 12.10. I ...
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VirtualBox doesn't load after 12.04 upgrade
After upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04, virtual box stopped working.
I've run the following to try to fix it:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install dkms
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
but when ...
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Unity doesn't appear after installing Nvidia drivers
I've just installed 12.10 from scratch. Unity also started okay, but in a poor resolution. I found a setting (I think it was in "software sources") to change the display driver to Nvidia, and then I ...
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How to identify and replace broken files in a corrupted Ubuntu ISO?
So, this isn't exactly an issue running Ubuntu, but rather with installing it.
Every time I try to download the Ubuntu ISO (from any source) it seems to end up corrupt. That is, the MD5 sums are ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Installation Hangs at 'Preparing to Install Ubuntu' [closed]
I have downloaded the Ubuntu 12.10 i386 Desktop ISO both via HTTP & Torrent Download.
I have attempted the install via CD & Bootable USB (created using YUMI from Pendrive Linux), each using a ...
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How do I change which audio jacks are used for input and output?
I'm using a Realtek HD audio card built-in my motherboard. The Windows driver comes with a control panel that allows me to select which back panel jacks are used for what. So for example I can make ...
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How to HYBRID-EFI install Ubuntu 12.10?
On trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop amd64 to a desktop pc using a ga a75 ud4h motherboard (which is using an AMD 3870k APU with a new 1TB HDD) following the advice in the motherboard manual and ...
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is OpenJDK Vulnerable to 0-Day Exploit?
I was curious to know if OpenJDK is also vulnerable to the Zero-Day Exploit that is currently afflicting Java 7 because of which experts are telling people to disable Java until a solution is found on ...
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Logitech Wireless M510 Does Not Work 12.10
I' ve just installed Ubuntu 12.10 64 bits on my new laptop and my Logitech M510 mouse does not work. It worked perfectly on 11.04 but it stop woth the new version, I've read here that I need to ...
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Why LXPanel 0.5.11 asks for a new dependency in Precise but not in Quantal?
LXPanel 0.5.11 that is default in Lubuntu Quantal has enhanced features compared to the older version that is default in Lubuntu Precise (0.5.8).
The new version of LXPanel is available for Precise. ...
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How do I enable hardware virtualization technology (VT-x) for use in Virtualbox?
So I am trying to run Ubuntu in a virtualbox but on installing 12.10 from the .iso I was greeted by a warning telling me that audio wouldn't work then I pressed next and this popped up:
Failed to ...
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Appearance icon has disappeared from system settings menu
I go to system settings and appearance is gone. I tried searching it in the dash and it is not there. When I right click the desktop and select "Change background" the system settings window opens. I ...
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Uninstall metasploit problem
I had serious problems with metaploit since I installed it, so I want to uninstall it
I did try /opt/metasploit-4.5.0/uninstall but it doesn't work
it shows a yes and no .. I choose yes then wait ...
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How to use NVIDIA GeForce M310 on Ubuntu 12.10 running as guest in Virtualbox?
Last couple of weeks played around with Ubuntu 12.10. This is running as a guest on Virtualbox hosted at Windows 7. There have been some challenges with the Unity 3D stuff. Particular due to not ...
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How do I install the latest ATI Catalyst Video Drivers in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal?
There are other threads related to this question for Ubuntu 12.04, however THEY DO NOT APPLY TO 12.10. This is not a duplicate of another thread if the referenced thread doesn't answer the question ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 “Turn screen off when inactive for: Never” still turns off
After a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10, my screen still goes off after about ten minutes. I've been to the Brightness and Lock control panel. The Turn screen off when inactive for: setting is set for ...
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How to setup Canon InkJet Pixma IP 1300?
I am unable to setup Canon InkJet Pixma IP 1300 on Quantal AMD64. The things I have tried:
Shut down and disconnect the printer before installing packages.
Added the ppa:michael-gruz/canon ...
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How do I migrate currently installed Ubuntu to a Virtual Machine?
I'm finding that my graphics drivers (ATI Radeon HD 4200) run MUCH better in a native windows system, I can't even get the closed-source drivers working in Ubuntu, thus leading me to want to run ...
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Windows 8 no longer boots after Grub wiped out the Windows Bootsector
I was using Win8 and installed Ubuntu 12.10... There is an entry in GRUB for W8, but when selecting it - GRUB comes back again, so Windows never boot up. I can only launch my Ubuntu.
/dev/sda1 * ...
