Questions about laptops in relationship to Ubuntu. Common subjects are trackpads, batteries and wireless cards.
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Laptop drains of quickly with battery
I am a user since years in ubuntu and I have not come across this problem with ubuntu till date.
My battery drains off immediately after I unplug my AC power.
The options I tried:
1) checked the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 laptop battery isn't charging?
My HP EliteBook charged perfectly when Windows 7 was installed. 8560p. I wiped the drive, installed 12.04. For a little while, I could suspend the laptop, and it would charge when the lid was closed. ...
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Wrong battery state reading cause brutal shutdown
I have an Asus Zenbook UX31A, the Asus 13" unit from first generation ultrabooks. I run Ubuntu 12.10 up to date on it.
Before a week or two I used to enjoy more that 5 hours of battery life, ...
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Laptop Brightness key Delayed Effect
My laptop is a Gateway NV52L03H, Amd Radeon HD 7520G using the AMD FGLRX drivers. All of my laptops FN (function) keys are working properly and as they should. The only one misbehaving are the ...
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Option to connect to WiFi disappeared after upgrading
I installed Lubuntu on to my Presario V5000 today off my old 12.04 disk. I installed all the updates then upgraded to 12.10 I was hooked up to an Ethernet cable to update it and before I saw firmware ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 wireless network disconnects with Samsung NP350E7C-S05NL
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.1O on my new Samsung NP350E7C-S05NL laptop. The problem is that it wireless internet keeps disconnecting, after a few minutes working, and I have to continuously ...
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Laptop touchpad enable/disable problems
Whenever I use my external mouse with my laptop, I physically disable the touchpad by pressing a button. Ubuntu detects this switch correctly, and will display an overlay that shows the current state ...
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How to change Laptop screen's contrast?
I use Xubuntu 12.04 on a Samsung ultrabook (series 5 ultra).
How can I adjust the contrast of the laptop's screen?
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Which logs will tell me about the Touchpad and Keyboard locking up?
I have an Asus N53SM laptop that I leave running for several weeks at a time. I never put it in hibernate or suspend, I only close the lid when I'm not using it. After a few days or weeks of running, ...
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Laptop won't connect to Wi-Fi router
I have Ubuntu in one of the laptops I own.
Since yesterday, and for no apparent reason, it is not able to connect anymore to my Wi-Fi router (I tried to forget the network and disabled security, ...
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External display not detected on Lenovo T520
In Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, I installed nvidia-current-updates and enabled the discrete NVIDIA card only in BIOS (Optimus completely disabled). Ubuntu uses the nvidia driver but fails to detect an external ...
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after upgrade to 12.04 network manager doesn't work at all
I find in syslog some messages
"network manager(PID) terminated with status 1"
If I try to run NetworkManager manually I get
"Failed to read classid fil: Object not found"
In 11.10 it was working ...
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How can I enable microphone mute button on Thinkpad W520?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. I've read Enabling Mic Mute button and light on Lenovo Thinkpads but the acpi_listen doesn't produce any output in the terminal (for any of the media buttons, Even the working ...
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Something strange is going on with the search
When I click the Search icon it creates a blue screen which covers the whole screen except for the button bar. It goes back to normal when I click the button again.
What can I do to get it back?
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suspend not working using ubuntu 13.04 on Acer Aspire one
I have just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my Acer Aspire One D250. When closing the laptop lid to enter suspend mode the screen turns off, but the hard drive remains active. Once open again the screen ...
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Unable to change the brightness on my Dell XPS 15 (L502X)
I am using ubuntu 13.04 and I am unable to change the brightness on my laptop and need a bit a help.
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Ubuntu 13.04 mouse and trackpad unresponsive
I have finally fixed my installation problem but now the trackpad and the mouse is unresponsive. On Try Ubuntu they work just fine. How do I fix this?
My laptop is the HP Pavilion G6 2269wm I am ...
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Fn + button shortcuts stopped working when updated to Ubuntu 13.04
I'm running Ubuntu on Asus KS53K, and after updating to Ubuntu 13.04 Fn + keys from F9 to F12 and Fn + numpad enter give no response. These worked properly on 12.10. Has anyone else experienced the ...
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Ubuntu won't shutdown using integrated GPU (Vaio VPCSB)
I have a Sony Vaio VPCSB1D7E (W7 + Ubuntu 12.04). It has hybrid graphics (AMD+Intel). I installed both the AMD Catalyst drivers and the Intel ones. So far, using both graphic cards works fine, but I ...
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How to toggle Runtime-PM on shutdown/boot
I'm experiencing an issue with the Runtime PM option (via PowerTOP or laptop-mode) on Ubuntu 12.04. As far as I know, it's just a bug (although I think it affects Lenovo laptops more from what I've ...
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Execute a shell-script when closing laptop lid
Now I have two scripts and I want to execute them respectively when I close the laptop lip and open it.
How can I do this?
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Third screen on laptop with USB?
I'm currently running ubuntu on a laptop provided with VGA and HDMI ports, also, I have two 22 inches monitors which I would like to connect to the laptop to work with three screens.
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VGA + ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 wifi problem
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop. After install the wifi card is working but when i try to connect to my secured wifi router it will show as connected but no internet ...
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Unable to play 1080p videos
i am dual booting windows and ubuntu (12.04), and i am unable to play any videos(1080p) on it , while on windows everything works fine.
I have -
-tried different media players (vlc, movie player ...
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No sound on ubuntu 10.04
I have windows7 and Ubuntu-10.04 in my laptop (lenovo z580 modle).
I have proper sound in Windows by not in Ubuntu.
There is no sound while Ubuntu boot.
I tried this command : sudo aplay -l
output : ...
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Why does my Acer 4310 run so slowly with Ubuntu 12.04 when it was lightening fast with Ubuntu 10.?
Since I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Acer 4310 laptop I have noticed that the system freezes on occasions and the screen showing the program I am running shows a grey colour. I have done a clean ...
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Temperature soars when glxspheres is off-screen
My laptop Samsung RF511 is overheating. I noticed this problem while playing minecraft: my computer would suddenly shut down. I checked /var/log/kern.log and sure enough the system reported ...
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Screen resolution repositioning? (Broken laptop screen)
I have a laptop with the top left corner's screen being broken - I can't see anything there. However it's just a small corner, so I'd like to know if there's something I can do to make Ubuntu not use ...
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How can I change brightness on Toshiba Satellite c855-21m?
I can't change the settings for brightness. In fact, it doesn't matter if the Fn keys work or not. I would like just to decrease brightness.
For example, using brightness-indicator I get a message ...
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Cpu fan always running and the air is too hot
My laptop is a
Dell Inspiron 14R 5420
Video cards: IntelHD Graphics 4000 and NVIDIA Geforce GT 630M
Currently running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS dual boot with Preinstalled Windows 8 system.
After ...
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Passive cooling on laptop
I have a Dell XPS 15 laptop (model number l502x). In both windows 7 and windows 8, I have been able to select power options (power saver, high performance, etc.). In the configuration settings for ...
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Black screen when trying to play video games
I run a wined version of steam (mostly because most of my steam games aren't avaible on the steam beta yet) and I had problems in the past with this black screen/dim screen but I fixed it, the problem ...
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Lenovo u310 will not charge when turned on
I've looked around and had several friends have a look but we cannot figure this out.
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Lenovo U310. The laptop charges fine when the laptop is off but it will not charge ...
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In Ubuntu displays, why does it say I'm using a laptop but I'm using a Desktop?
I'm using Ubuntu on Oracle's Virtual Box aside from Windows because the vast of my friends are trying to get me to try it, I open it and activate full screen mode, yet it isn't all fullscreen. I ...
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Touchpad settings not available acer aspire V3-771G
I have a brand new laptop, with xubuntu and i can't find the touchpad settings. In the mouse settings menu, there's only a mouse tab and i can't set the side scroll or disable touchpad when typing.
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Distorted graphics in Ubuntu after installation (Live Session worked perfectly)
I have recently installed Ubuntu on my Acer S5 Ultrabook. Things were perfect when I was trying and I created a partition and installed Ubuntu. Now when I logged in, I am getting a distorted Ubuntu ...
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Backlit keyboard on Toshiba Satellite P755-S5184 doesn't work in Ubuntu 12.04
I have the keyboard backlight turned on in bios to timer setting (1 second). When laptop boots the backlight works, but once ubuntu begins to load the backlights turn off.
There is a function key ...
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DVI disconects after a second under Ubuntu 12.10 Laptop Dell XPS 15
I use a the DVI-HDMI adapter to connect to my TV. The problem is after I upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10 that the Display doesn not detect correctly the second screen. After connecting the cable it connects ...
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Display problems on Ubuntu 12.10 : “ERROR Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!”
It seems like there's been such problems with external monitors for a while, but even if I updated everything I knew that could be upgraded, I still face the same problem.
I have an old laptop that ...
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Elitebook Quick Launch buttons
I have an HP Elitebook 6930p laptop, which has two additional touch-sensitive buttons above keyboard.
The touch-sensitive volume and mute buttons work OK, but the first two don't. Is there a way to ...
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Thinkpad T530 with Optimus and Docking Station
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T530 with Optimus video, which is not supported on 12.04.1.
I don't normally need the discrete (nVidia) graphics, so I turn it off in the BIOS settings to achieve longer ...
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Hard Drive overheating on ubuntu, not on windows
I have a dual boot laptop, of lubuntu and windows 7. I really like ubuntu, and I rarely boot on to windows 7 now. However, one issue that I could not resolve, was that my hard drive heats up on every ...
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Oops! it's a desktop not a laptop
My mother has a Desktop PC, I accidentally installed Ubuntu 11.0 Laptop on it, now the power settings are set up for a laptop.
Is there any way I can change this?
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My Laptop Beeps when I try to USB boot install
I tried to boot install Ubuntu using my laptop (without CD Drive) using a USB drive, then it goes to the boot selection menu (the one with the Ubuntu logo installation options).
I selected Install ...
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How do I control my desktop configurations
I hooked up another monitor to my laptop. at first everything was fine but then something
happened and my basic desktop streched across both monitors instead of just one screen. How do I control my ...
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My battery drains really fast and my laptop gets really hot, What do I do?
I just installed Ubuntu on my HP Pavilion dv6-6c50ca, and I noticed that every time that I start my laptop with Ubuntu the fan runs really fast and the laptop produces a lot of heat. When I run ...
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Backlight key breaks input on unity
I have a Dell Studio 1747 with Ubuntu 12.04 and whenever I hit the F6 key to change the keyboards backlight brightness some strange stuff happens with unity. Some mouse input such as clicking on the ...
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Connecting laptop to a TV and use mirror screen
My old HP Pavilion is running 12.04. I want to be able to connect it to the Smart TV at home, it's from Philips, in case you wanna know.
Anyways, I use a VGA cable to connect it to the TV, then I go ...
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Linux says in display settings I'm on a laptop
I recently installed Linux Ubuntu 12.04 and I cannot get any sound through my built in speakers with it. I can get sound through headphone though also Sound works on vista but not on Ubuntu and also ...
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startup /etc/inti.d/rc exited outside the expected code flow
A few days ago I was on my laptop and it shutoff randomly, it was plugged in so I thought 'oh no biggy the battery must have died.' So I plugged it in and booted it up and when it did, it brought me ...
