Questions tagged [laptop]

Questions about laptops in relationship to Ubuntu. Common subjects are trackpads, batteries and wireless cards.

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Suspension when closing the lid does not work

I have an Asus Zenbook 14 Oled with Ubuntu 23.10. When I close the lid, the laptop doesn't suspend. I have already edited /etc/systemd/logind.conf, uncommenting: HandleLidSwitch=suspend ...
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Ubuntu 22 LTS and HP laptop - Set maximum performances even on battery

My machine with ubuntu 22 lts throttle a lot and it's so slow when using the laptop only in battery. On Windows I can easily set up a performance mode in battery obtaining full speed at the expenses ...
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22.04.4 Desktop not installing

I am trying to install 22.04.4 Desktop on my Panasonic CF-20 Toughbook. I get to what I think is the desktop screen and that is it. I see the date, time, volume and battery icon. I dose not give me ...
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Laptop Keyboard when plugging in usb

I installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a MSI laptop for school, It has two USB C ports and one USB A port. Whenever I plug in anything to any of those ports, my keyboard stops working, however the laptop's ...
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No driver for Intel integrated graphics, Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

I bought a laptop "Lenovo ThinkBook 14+" recently. This is a newly released machine version. Its original OS is Windows 11 and I freshly install a Ubuntu 22.04 on it. However, it seems that ...
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Recommendations for liveCD retro laptop testing

I'm going to purchase an old laptop soon. (likely a Thinkpad T430 or earlier, maybe a Compaq if I can find one). I'll have the opportunity to test out machines in-person at a re-pc & goodwill ...
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How to change lid close behavior to do nothing?

I just want my laptop to keep running as usual with the lid closed. I have looked at several similar questions and tried the below methods already. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Methods I ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 freezes trying to enter suspend mode

Everything was working fine until a day or two ago. Up until now, I've been able to close my laptop lid, and it automatically enters suspend mode and the back light turns off. For some reason (likely ...
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Multiple Ubuntu Flavours crash and reboot on resume from sleep. Doesn't appear to be Nvidia issue - UPDATED LOGS

Laptop appears to suspend fine. but upon opening or pressing power to wake, keyboard lights up and then system reboots. Gigabyte Aorus 15 XE4. Nvidia RTX 3070ti. Issue persists on Intel, Hybrid, ...
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CPU not running at full speed

My old laptop (MSI GE70 2OE) has some problem with the cpu (Intel Core i5-4200M) and does not utilize its full speed by default, even if it’s under a heavy load - it runs at 0.8GHz even though it ...
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The screen of my old Lenovo Yoga doesn’t works

The screen of my old Lenovo Yoga doesn’t works, I installed Ubuntu 23.10.1 with a secondary monitor. The strange part is that all the other things like Bluetooth, WiFi and even the touch screen are ...
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Laptop turns off immediately while not on charge on ubuntu but stays on windows

I have this weird issue with my MSI GF 65 thin laptop with RTX 3060 graphic card. My laptop works properly with windows without being put on charge but turns off immediately when booting into ubuntu. ...
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Apps dont open after I reopen the laptop lid

When I close the laptop lid (sleep or suspend whatever you call it) and I open that lid, the system doesnt freezes, but no apps open if I clcik the icons. When I shutdown it says somw wierd errors in ...
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Persistent Audio Cracking issue present when using laptop speakers and wired headphones, but not bluetooth

I would like to thank you in advance for your help. So I have been having an issue with a persistent crackling sound when listening to any type of audio on my laptop running ubuntu 23.10. This issue ...
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A phenomenon in which connection is possible through a hotspot, but cannot be connected through a regular wireless network

I recently updated my Ubuntu laptop. (Thinkpad T14s gen2) I just type sudo apt update & upgrade and reboot. After that, my laptop couldn't access the internet through a wireless network. Only I ...
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Ubuntu installation is giving an error

I was installing Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop, during installation there was no problem but this problem occurred as soon as I clicked on "restart now". Can anyone help me, I tried to reinstall ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS does not boot when on laptop battery

When my laptop charger is unplugged, I can't boot Ubuntu. I can enter BIOS, so battery has charge. Ubuntu starts to load, but after few seconds it shuts down. Also I tried to load to login screen with ...
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Wireless network is not available after apt upgrade

I am using ubuntu laptop. (Think pad t14s gen2) I updated package recently. And then, now I couldn't access internet using wifi. The only way I can access the Internet is through my cell phone hotspot....
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How can you automate monitor turning off and on in a notebook used as a server Body:

I'm repurposing a notebook as a home server (running Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS). In order to save energy (and backlight lifetime), I'm looking for a way to automatically turn the monitor off and back on ...
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Ubuntu live usb is not turning on laptop backlight

A friend of mine has up an old xp-era laptop and wants me to try to give it some level of usefulness. It boots up to the windows login screen just fine, so I put in my Ubuntu usb and grub came up like ...
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Activating fingerprint login on Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 16ALC7

I'm a new Ubuntu user and I'm trying to figure out how to enable fingerprint login on my laptop. Any help will be appreciated :)
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Power management issues

I'm writing to you because I'm having problems with the battery on my computer. Let me explain: when I plug in my computer, sometimes it recharges and the battery goes up... sometimes it stays at 0% ...
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Motherboard Temperature High After Install Linux

I switched from windows to linux but i have a problem, when I normal use Motherboard chip get high temperature up 60c° and cpu tmp is 53c°, gpu 48c°, but in past I use windows not have this problem. ...
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laptop stays stuck at battery icon even when connected to wall plug and charging

TLDR! What is the component that displays the battery icon vs charging icon in the top right part of screen, as well as the percentage charged? Asking, so as to determine why this part is not ...
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How to show low battery warning message/notification on GNOME/Wayland/Ubuntu 23.10?

On a current Ubuntu with Wayland/GNOME, when my battery is low the battery indicator on the top right goes red. On my previous laptop I had Ubuntu/X/GNOME, and a popup notification used to appear ...
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My notebook is shutting itself down randomly (not exactly)

Summary - current state: My Samsung ATIV Book 6 (model code: NP670Z5E-XD1BR), running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, is shutting down on its own "randomly" when under stress. More specifically, when ...
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No internet when switching from a wired connection to another

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a Laptop with a wired access to internet at home, and when I bring my laptop to our local radio station without shutting it down and try to access to internet there via ...
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Some part of laptop screen is not working after upgrading the Ubuntu 23.10

Top right corner of screen is not working. Unable to minimize, close the browser[Google chrome, firefox]
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Keyboard lights on my laptop MSI

I have an MSI laptop and I would like to know if there is a way to install software to change the colors of the keyboard lights. Thank you
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Only Wifi is working in bluetooth+wifi combo adapter

My laptop has Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 adapter which is Wifi and Bluetooth combo. When I installed Ubuntu 22.04, it did not have either wifi or bluetooth working. I installed a wifi adapter ...
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New machine/OS visual artifacting and powering off, what's the cause?

Update: Returned the machine, bought a different one. Background: On an ASUS Rog Zephyrus G14 (ga402xv-g14.r94060), Windows 11 was powering off randomly. This particularly occurred during the ...
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Trying out wayland

I noticed somewhere (on the login screen IIRC) that you can choose between Wayland and xorg Is it safe to do so? I won't get into a situation where Wayland can't start or crashes, but then I cannot ...
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Wifi Adaptor Not Found - Acer Laptop ubuntu 22.04.3 Wifi 6Ax101

I am using Acer Laptop AL15-52 which was by default in Windows 11 Home SL OS. I changed the Operating System to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. After that I couldn't see the Wi-Fi Symbol in the Ubuntu. I am facing ...
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Dell Latitude 5580 with buttons above and below the trackpad. How can I remap them?

This laptop has a total of 5 buttons around the trackpad: three above and two below the trackpad. The three above are mapped to left, middle and right click. The left one below is mapped to middle ...
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Will my laptop sustain Ubuntu? [duplicate]

I want to try a Linux-based OS so I am hoping to try the Ubuntu distro. Can anyone tell me if my lap can handle it? It is an old laptop (8-10 years old) with the following specs: Processor:Intel(R) ...
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A laptop with OS "ubuntu"

I want to install the UBUNTU operating system on my "DELL XPS" laptop, but all installation packages are only for "DESKTOP". Where can I download the UBUNTU installation package ...
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Bluetooth headphones keep disconnecting when moveing laptop

I've recently installed the 22.04 LTS version on my Asus TUF laptop ( 11th Intel i7-11800 which recently had Win), but I am experiencing this weird problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They connect ...
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Keyboard lights turn off on laptop poweroff

I have Xiaomi RedmiBook Pro 14 2021 with Ubuntu 23.10 on it recently installed as only system. The laptop has keyboard backlight, which can be enabled/disabled by pressing Fn+F10, or with just F10. ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a Laptop with i3 12Gen Processor, 4GB RAM and 256GB SSD Hard [duplicate]

If the Ubuntu 22.04LTS OS is installed on a Laptop with i3 12Gen Processor, 4GB RAM and 256GB SSD Hard, will it functioned properly with out any slowness...?
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Notebook built-in keyboard sporadically not working after boot

problem is as follows: Sporadically, when I boot Ubuntu (22.04.3), the keyboard doesn't work. Neither at login manager nor at desktop after login. No key responds. I can boot up to 3 to 5 times, ...
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Laptop shuts down when headphones jack plugs in

My Acer Extensa 2520G with Ubuntu 22.04 turns off on plugging headphones jack I've tryed both this solutions and it's not helps in my case My system hasn't TLP so i've install it and add to empty file ...
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Laptop Keyboard & Mouse Not Working After Update

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon that I recently performed a routine update on, which required a restart - so maybe updating the Linux kernel or something but I'm not too sure because I wasn't, like,...
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Ubuntu 22.0 LTS don't start Error F30

Error F30 when installing Ubuntu on HP g645 J1 laptop: I'm trying to install Ubuntu on an old laptop. When I finish the installation and restart the device, the hard drive doesn't recognize the ...
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Installing Ubuntu 22.04.3 on SSD+HDD

I am new to ubuntu and I wanted to install ubuntu on my laptop but i am having a problem . I have a laptop with 2tb HDD with windows install in it and i just bought a 256gb SSD. Now the problem is ...
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Unable to Install Ubuntu on Rog Strix G15

I tried installing Ubuntu LTS 22.04.3, but when I click on "Install Ubuntu" in the installation page, the following error pops up: Error in the Booting Page I turned off Fast Boot and even ...
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crash with lid closure

I am running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS and whenever I close the lid the applications symbols become terminals, the background goes blue, and clicking on anything causes a secondary desktop to pop up with ...
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Backspace, navigation keys and others not working after upgrade to 22.04.03

The following keys are dead after the upgrade: Nav left Nav down Backspace Page down G H Keyboard is US international with dead keys (definitely is now ;-)) Laptop is D Zbook 14 G1 lsb_release -a ...
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Lenovo Laptop P14s Gen 4 drivers problem

I'm attempting to set up a new Lenovo P14s with Ubuntu 20.04 because that's the version we use for our software stack. At first, 20.04 wouldn't install properly - it gave some error that I couldn't ...
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My pc switchs on from itself

I don't know how and when, but if I put the pc in standby or I switch it off without charging, when I switch it on in the morning it is already on (but with the standby screen) and without charge (...
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How to format old windows pc

I have an old HP laptop running on windows 8.1, the owner forgot his password so he tried resetting it with some commands like (enter+f1+Del) thats what he says, then the laptop reboots, on the ...
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