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Installing proprietary ATI driver bricked my SSD

Today I tried switch back to full Ubuntu, getting rid of Windows for a while again. Was attempting to install 13.04. At first try everything was fine, grabbed the driver from ATI download page, ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 rebooting problem

I had installed driver for ati radeon hd 2000. After downloading and installing it asked me to reboot.I rebooted and after that the Ubuntu logo and the progress bar under it were bigger.Nothing ...
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Can I use a different graphical driver while booting, and the proprietery NVIDIA driver once my computer has started?

I have a bit of a problem in that as I am booting my PC, the boot screen isn't exactly pretty because I am using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. I am wondering if there is a method to use the VESA ...
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Fatal error during GPU init" during boot - radeon

I have installed ubuntu 13.04. I can boot successfully to ubuntu screen. However, during boot, I get error messages for 1 second or so, and continues to boot. One of the error message was: radeon ...
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Does Ubuntu have any system file that emulates Windows vga.sys?

My HP Pavilion zv5410us will boot from a Unbuntu 12.04 LTS Live CD, but it will not boot from my hard drive installation of the same system. It installed easily and is trying to use the nouveau ...
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How to recover after Ubuntu freeze on boot after installing broadcom STA driver

I have installed ubuntu 12.04 on bootcamp of my early 2011 macbook pro using the ubuntu windows installer. The wifi did not work and follow this instruction (although for Quantal) to fix it ...
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Drivers corrupted after update for first time?

I had dual booted Ubuntu 12.10 with Windows 7 on my Laptop. After installing I observed that the fan was on all the time, resulting in huge electricity usage. There was an alert that I had ~200 ...
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How do I make a complete image file boot disc

I'm a crusty old fert who's gotten fed up with MS, plus I have security concerns. I'd like to make an image file boot of Ubuntu, a PDF printer (possibly a complete editor?), and if possible, a driver ...
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How do I get an updated 13.04 to use graphics drivers the same way as Live USB?

So within 3-4 days I updated from Ubuntu 12.04 through 12.10 to 13.04 (on non-dev release). I have an onboard ATI X1250 which works fine with standard/Open Source drivers, but I really want to use my ...
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Intermittent keyboard and mouse failure on boot up

I have found several posts similar to mine, but this is the closest matching one to my specific issue: USB Keyboard works occasionally. I am not sure if the answer given there would work for me, ...
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Nvidia driver not loaded

I had a weird problem just before. My Nvidia driver seemingly wasn't loaded properly when I booted up my machine, as my resolution was completely messed up and even lsmod didn't ouput any nvidia ...
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Catch-22: No Ubuntu to install AMD driver for initial Ubuntu install through Win8. [duplicate]

Without going into unnecessary detail, I purchased a laptop with Win8 pre-installed, spent a couple days troubleshooting/learning how to get Ubuntu 12.10 to load up from both a flash drive and a ...
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Ubuntu stuck on Boot Screen with a Radeon HD 5570

With additional drivers installed and a general updated: - on boot, stuck at purple start up screen with five orange dots and ubuntu logo. - Hard drive light turns off - ctrl alt F1 -F6 are all ...
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Why am I getting graphical error while booting?

I have successfully installed Ubuntu and it runs perfectly. But, why is there only a pink and purple screen while it boots? My machine specs are 2nd Gen i3 2.4ghz, 8gb RAM, Intel HD graphics and AMD ...
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Installing drivers using a live disc. Is it possible?

I accidentally removed my video card and forgot to reinstall it. After rebooting and splash screen ubuntu didn't start and o couldn't start it manually because it stops before i get to the terminal. ...
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Weird Grub/Driver Issues - Screen goes orange on login unless manually selecting ubuntu in grub

I'm having some interesting issues with my Graphic card drivers and Grub. I just installed 12.10 and everything is up to date. If I'm using the X.Org AMD drivers, I just see a distorted orange image ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Help! Everything is incredibly slow

I installed 12.10 from usb onto this machine. Intel celeron 2.00 GHz 496MB RAM I had to modify GNU-Grub to read "nomodeset" or i could not see the GUI. I have an Nvidia graphics card. Takes about ...
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Unable to boot ubuntu 12.10 after installing latest amd catalyst drivers

I started using linux about a week ago and chose ubuntu 12.10 to start out with. I ran it dual boot with windows 7. Played with it for about a week and everything was going great then I loaded up ...
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I removed nvidia driver and lshw -c video still shows nvidia

Today I tried to activate the newer experimental drivers and both 304 and 310 failed to even install. So I tried the regular nvidia driver 295.40 for the 20th time today (I had lag issues and was ...
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Can I install Ubuntu/Lubuntu on a pc with a video card that is not supported if I add `nomodeset` in using the live cd/usb?

I have a computer with a video card that has no Linux support. I discovered this issue while trying to use a persistent usb to boot from. I found that I can boot like that if I change options and ...
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cant boot after update [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Xorg server configuration fail - no screens detected After update (28. september) my pc freezes and than restart after few secs. I have installed ubuntu 12.04 x64. I ...
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Sound Not working on reboot

I have a Alienware m17xR4 and when I reboot from Windows 7 into 12.04 I have no sound. The icon is there and all of the listed devices are still present just no sound. If I reboot in 12.04 back into ...
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Asus 1015cx netbook won't boot in 12.04 after installing additional drivers

I have an Asus 1015cx netbook with Atom dual core, 1GB RAM. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 with WUBI inside Windows 7 and everything was okay. But when I installed additional drivers of Broadcom and ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 won't boot on Toshiba Satellite L855

I recently attempted to install Ubuntu 12.04 onto Satellite and problems during the boot splash, right after grub. I tried booting from a USB as well as a CD. I put a friend's hard drive into the ...
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How activate NVIDIA drivers?

Yesterday I was having a few memory leaks with Compiz, I decided to put this down to the new NVIDIA drivers that I installed. I purged everything with NVIDIA from my system and booted into Ubuntu ...
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How do I prevent iptables from loading on boot?

I don't need iptables on my computer, since I'm behind a NAT Server and a router. I, therefore, flushed all the rules I had left to disactivate the firewall. I'm wonder if I could probably prevent ...
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Problem with ubuntu 12.04 - dell xps 15z - keyboard, trackpad, graphic card

I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04, and it doesnt recognize any additional drivers, the keyboards does not work nor does the trackpad nor does it recognize the graphic card. How can i solve this ...
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After Nvidia driver install, LightDM won't start automatically

I did a clean install and after installing updates and drivers (Nvidia VGA) for a 460GTX, I'm shown a black screen with various Stopping/Starting messages. The last of these messages is different ...
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How do I fix drivers in pre-boot Ubuntu installer disk? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? My computer arrived yesterday, it runs perfectly fine with Windows 7, so I know it's a problem ...
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Installed ATI drivers, stuck at boot [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I Restore default video drives I may have royally messed up my setup this time. I installed the ATI drivers following their wiki here. Ended up rebooting to ...
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Ubuntu hits a black screen after boot [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? I have used wubi.exe to install Ubuntu 11.10 from Windows7. The OS boots properly most of the ...
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failed upgrade caused no drivers to detect and booting problem [closed]

well im new to ubuntu while trying to upgrade to 11.10 from 11.04 after downloading using update manager the system crashed and i had to manually restart.now the boot screen stops at checking battery ...
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Why isn't my computer sending input to my monitor?

I have a desktop machine with 11.04. It has ATI/Radeon graphics: john@john:~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4250] I was attempting to ...
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2.6.35-28 kernel update breaks Xorg [closed]

After I updated to 2.6.35-28, my Plymouth graphics still works, but when the system tries to launch X11 and GDM, the screen would flicker several times and it will fall back to TTY. In the TTY ...
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Problem when booting, like old TV but when log in back to normal [closed]

I have Axioo laptop using SIS Mirage 3 (SIS M672+SIS968 Chipset) When I turn on my laptop, BIOS no problem, when booting ubuntu, problem with display like old TV (broken) but when log in back to ...
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Using same HDD on multiple laptops as boot drive

I have a hdd with ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) that I use on my samsung laptop. Can I use the same HDD as main (boot drive) on another laptop (HP)? Will it automatically install drivers? Do they override? Is ...