Questions tagged [laptop]
Questions about laptops in relationship to Ubuntu. Common subjects are trackpads, batteries and wireless cards.
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How can I get Ubuntu to load as a dual boot on an HP Envy laptop with Windows 10?
I have a new HP Envy laptop (AMD A10 processor, Radeon R6, 8GB RAM, 2TB HD) with Windows 10. I don't want to use Windows as the main OS, and want to use Ubuntu (my previous laptop was Ubuntu, and in ...
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How to use nouveau instead of intel?
I have a laptop with Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU. I want to use nouveau but whatever I do my laptop is always using Intel's driver. How can I make it use nouveau?
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Ubuntu 14.04 screen brigthness problem in videos
In my laptop I have a very annoying problem
When I'm in Chrome or seen a movie and I don't touch the touchpad the screen attenuates automatically
It's annoying because the brightness automatically ...
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Help with displaying screen on monitor
Dog knocked my laptop off the table and smashed the screen. I was able to display on an external monitor once. I unplugged everything to move it and when I set it all back up i coudlnt get it to ...
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How to link the system event brightness up/down to the correct brightness file
I have a ASUS UL30VT and just installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The screen brightness was at level 0.
Attempt 1: so I navigated to find the screen brightness slider under System Settings>Brightness&...
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Ubuntu - Recommended Minimum System Requirements [duplicate]
Can I install and run Ubuntu on this machine?
AMD Dual-Core E1-6015 APU with
Radeon R2 Graphics (1.4 GHz, 1 MB cache)
4 GB DDR3L-1600 SDRAM (1 x 4 GB)
If yes, which version of Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Flickering Problem [closed]
I have a system 76 Lemur laptop on which I have installed Ubuntu 16.04. My screen has started flickering. I thought it was a problem with the installation so I made a boot able USB and reinstalled. It ...
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Closing the lid create an error with the wireless icon
Since updating to 16.04, I encounter a problem where the wifi symbol would become an up and a down arrow. The problem arises when I close the lid, but sometimes it does not matter whether I close the ...
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With Ubuntu 16.04 laptop doesn't suspend when lid is closed
I have a Dell 7737 laptop, and with Ubuntu 16.04 it no longer suspends when the laptop lid is closed. With 14.04 closing the lid put the laptop to suspend as expected. However, I reloaded the system ...
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Can I adjust the minimum brightness for my laptop's LCD?
I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 on my Dell XPS 13 (9333, 2014 model). The LCD brightness can be controlled by the keyboard, and if possible I'd like to adjust the minimum value and/or adjust the ...
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I can no longer completely turn off the screen by decreasing the screen brightness to zero in 16.04
Sorry if this is vague and not nearly as technical as most other questions here, but I'm a pretty new ubuntu convert. When I'm in hurry I've been turning off my screen just by holding fn and f8 to ...
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Laptop not properly suspending after I close lid
Dell Inspiron 3542. When I close my laptop lid and put it in my bag, I often take it out later to find it extremely hot and with the battery drained. I also often find that my monitor turns on ...
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Internal laptop display is disconnected (LVDS-0 disconnected)
I did a clean install of ubuntu gnome 16.04 on my lenovo w520 (without formatting the home partition; before I had ubuntu gnome 15.10).
My laptop comes (sadly - since I have always had troubles with ...
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Laptop heats up while using ubuntu
Don't Know why my PC heats up while i use ubuntu (any version). I have dell i7 processor system with 1 GB nvidia. Still finding solution but no positive and effective solution found. any suggestion
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6700HQ Ubuntu install broken bios suspected/CPU lockup xx seconds
So I have tried to get Ubuntu to boot/install on my MSI Apache GE72 6QF.
After weeks of trying and searching on google I have found MY solution that I found on a high tech site documented.
When I ...
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Cannot change brightness in laptop
I am trying to change the brightness of my laptop using xrandr, but I get this error.
Here's the segment:
janreggie@janreggie-T100TA:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1368 x 768, maximum ...
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Changing what internal video card my laptop uses
I hope I explain this correctly, because I have no idea what I'm talking about:
I ran two commands in the terminal to find out what graphics card my laptop uses, and got this result:
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Intel graphics cause shutdown on laptop (CPU Intel i7 6700HQ)
when I switch to Intel integrated graphics the laptop fans go on full max and can't be turned off, and then after a few mins the log out window pops up on its own and the computer shuts down, also ...
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Touchscreen not working on suspend. No existing solutions are working
When I close the lid to suspend my laptop the touchscreen stops working after waking the laptop.
I found a workaround by sleeping the laptop before closing the lid. For some reason if the laptop is ...
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To control battery at a certain capacity (for ex.20%) then the laptop will be automatically standby or hibernate for long-lasting the battery
I would like to control for setting my battery at a certain capacity (for ex.20%) then the laptop will be automatically standby or hibernate for long-lasting the battery.
Is there any solution, please?...
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Will Ubuntu speed up this laptop?
Old s****y 2004 laptop, Intel core, weak, virus filled. I want to completely wipe the drive and upgrade to Ubuntu. I do not have any data I want to save, this computer was a hand me down that's been ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 draining battery very quickly
I know there are several other questions very similar to this, but I feel that questions like this are specific to the system you are running and so there is not really a "one size fits all" type of ...
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Wifi & touchpad don't work in live USB - will they work after install? (Samsung NP900X5L)
I just booted from a live USB image of Ubuntu 14.04 desktop (64bit) on my Samsung laptop and found that the touchpad doesn't work and the wifi device isn't detected (ethernet works fine though).
Will ...
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wifi doesn't work after installing ubuntu
i have installed linux alongside windows 10 on my laptop. After that i entered the driver search in linux and found the wifi driver - and the wifi worked correctly. I had to remove windows and ...
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Ubuntu 15.04, pm-utils do not look into /etc/pm/power.d/ anymore, what instead?
Since upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04 my custom script which I used to setup proper thermal profile mode for my laptop ceased to work, which I believe is because pm-utils do not respond to AC/BAT ...
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Ubuntu keeps resetting HDD APM level to 1 on wakeup from suspend
I have a problem with my Ubuntu 15.10 amd64 system on my ASUS R513C laptop.
I am setting the APM level on my HDD to 254 by running sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda by hand and this fixes a problem with ...
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Permanent Blank Screen after lid close?
I am using Ubuntu on my Hp M6 Envy laptop.
I closed my lid to move with my laptop and by the time (10 mins) i opened it the screen was totally blank not black , blank. I restarted many times with no ...
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Not able to add user image in Ubuntu 14.04
There is an option to add user image/photograph under User Accounts in System Settings. But whenever I try to add an user image, the system settings freeze and I have to kill it using xkill command. ...
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How do I get three finger click to work on my touchpad? (middle click works with laser/optical mouse)
Running Ubuntu 15.10 on a 4 year old laptop, and while the touchpad driver I'm using works very well with scrolling and two finger clicking, I cannot figure out how to get three finger clicking to ...
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laptop keyboard does not work ubuntu 13.10
LG T1 Laptop with Ubuntu 13.10.
I installed Ubuntu on a very old laptop (that used to work with Windows XP) with a new hard drive. However, now the keyboard doesn't work.
The internal laptop ...
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Acer E5-574G Laptop touchpad not working in Ubuntu 14.04
I installed Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64Bit) in my Laptop Acer Aspire E 15 E5-574G.
Unfortunately, touchpad is not working.
I searched for a good resource in the internet, but i couldn't find it.
If some has ...
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CF-52 Mk 1 brightness stops at 50%
I used the acpi_osi= trick to make Xubuntu 14.04 work with my newly acquired CF-52 Mk 1 Toughbook. Among other things, this enabled it to control the LCD backlight brightness. This mostly works fine, ...
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Switch into tablet mode (in Gnome)
I have a 2-in-1 laptop, where the screen flips a full 360 degrees to turn into a tablet (I have the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro, but there are many similar devices now). I'm running Ubuntu GNOME (15.10, but I ...
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USB Mouse and Keyboard stop working unexpectedly
On my laptop I've attached USB mouse and keyboard. They work well when I start the computer. The problem is that after some time they stop working. Laptop's touchpad and keyboard have no problems but ...
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Battery status seems to be stuck
I have a Dell Inspiron 3000 series with Ubuntu 15.10. I noticed a few hours ago that the battery status remained unchanged (at 45%) and it said 1:40 hours left for full charge. I tried removing and ...
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Whats happened to the battery? Help understanding the BAT0 report
my laptop's battery seems dead(the laptop only runs with the AC plugged in), but the BAT0 report says the following:
▶—— NOTEBOOK BATTERY (BAT0) ——◀
Complete Report:
Name ...
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HP Stream 13-C004TU Notebook for Ubuntu Install
I'm looking at purchasing this HP Stream 13-C004TU Notebook, as I am wanting to install Ubuntu 14.10 and not wanting to spend more than $300.
The questions I have are:
Will this spec be sufficient ...
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Disable touch drag
I am using touchpad on my laptop, but sometimes when I move pointer around it starts dragging (touch drag). I prefer to drag while holding it down.
Can this touch drag be disabled?
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Ubuntu 14.04 unity shows wrong battery status
I am using ASUS laptop and the model is X555-50. I have ubuntu 14.04 installed with unity desktop.
It used to show the correct battery status earlier. But suddenly it is not displaying the correct ...
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Old laptop cannot boot from ubuntu 15.10 dvd
I have ab old nc8000 laptop with 14.04 installed on it. I want to upgrade to 15.10 but the laptop cannot boot from the install dvd. Is there a workaround for this?
Thanks :)
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Why can't I type with some keys on my laptop?
After I installed Ubuntu 12.10, I noticed that some keys on my Asus A53U laptop have stopped working correctly, and others work for the wrong keys, i.e. I press the key below backspace (can't remember ...
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Turning the brightness completely down
I used to run the command xbacklight -set 0 to make my brightness effectively 0 i.e. it was almost impossible to see anything, which was really helpful for conserving my battery power. However having ...
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Why does my thinkpad log in automatically if I lock my screen, shut my lid and then reopen it?
I've noticed some strange behaviour while working today. If I lock my screen with ctrl+alt+l it takes me to the login screen. If I then decide to shut my laptop it suspends correctly. But when I ...
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Optimal version of Linux for T61 laptops [closed]
I have some Lenovo T61 laptops, which I want to convert to Linux (from WinXP or Win7). Being a novice I wonder
a) which Ubuntu-version is most suitable
b) other software i.e. BIOS etc. you would ...
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HP Pavilion 360
I'm about to install Ubuntu 15.10 on a laptop HP Pavilion 360. I have right now Windows 10 as my only OS, and one of its functions is that, when I bend the laptop to use it as a tablet, the whole ...
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Installing Ubuntu on modern laptop
I have see over the last few year that is is getting more difficult to install ubuntu.
Usually it is no problem to boot from USB (CD's is obsolete anyway)
But booting from USB on these machines is ...
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Can my laptop run ubuntu? // Problems with the nvidia graphic?
My laptop is a MSI, PX60 2QD-084XES (Prestige) .
Specifications:
* Intel® Core i7-5700HQ (2.7 GHz, 6 MB)
* RAM 16GB DDR3 SODIMM (2x8GB)
* Hard disk 1TB (7200 rpm S-ATA)+ 256GB SSD (1x256GB M.2 SATA)
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Can't set up wireless drivers on MSI Stealth, no output returned from lspci
Installed Ubuntu as dual boot with windows on an MSI GS70 laptop.
Can't get wireless to show up in the toolbar & there are no software updates that appear under "System Settings | Additional ...
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GT70 2PE Dominator Pro (or equal) keyboard backlight
Just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop and have been searching the internet for a couple of hours, trying to get my keyboard's backlight to work . I know it works out of the box when you hit the ...
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Why does my laptop suddenly turn off while my battery reports about 24% of charge?
I have an ASUS K53E. The battery reports a capacity of about 76.5%, i.e 43.8 Wh of 57.2 Wh.
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04, my laptops suddenly turns off: no suspend, hibernate or gracefully shut ...
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