About to give up on Linux
Last week I bought a brand new HP laptop and an external Samsung SSD. My goal was to have an office platform on the windows laptop and a completely separate dual boot version of Ubuntu on the SSD for a...
View ArticleLinux Ubuntu or Mint on micro sd card EFI boot
I have Mac Book Pro early 2015, and installed Hi Sierra & Win 10 with Bootcamp. I also have another Windows PC with win 7 on it with dual boot with Ubuntu 16.04. Both PC can boot EFI Linux boot. My...
View ArticleRequest Re-Install Advice for a triple-boot mac-mini
I have a mac-mini that triple boots OSX/WIn10/and 1604 Ubuntu. I have broken WiFi in Ubuntu and spent way to many hours trying to correct the problem with no luck. I want to start over with a new...
View ArticleCan't complete Lubuntu 14.04 install on Mac Powerbook G4 12" laptop, powers off
Hi all, I am trying to install Lubuntu Desktop 14.04 desktop on an old Mac Powerbook G4 12" laptop, but have gone as far as I (seemingly) can and now stumped. Booting successfully from a USB drive (via...
View Article[kubuntu] No sound on macbookair3,1
aplay -l output: Code: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****[/COLOR] card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: CS4206 Analog [CS4206 Analog] Â Subdevices: 1/1 Â Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0:...
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Can't boot following power outage
Hi, all. I have Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit installed on an iMac5,1 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7400, 3 Gig RAM). I have installed all current updates, including the new 4.13 kernel. Note that my computer suffers from...
View Articleerr with my eithernet
I can't seem to connect to the internet after installing some network packages and then uninstalled them and i think i removed some that were needed and now i can't connect to the internet still and i...
View Article[ubuntu] Macbook Air Keyboard Stopped Working
I've checked all other related threads but it seems my situation is different. The keyboard on my Macbook Air 2015 has stopped working. I can switch the laptop on using the power key and off using the...
View ArticleSATA drive connected through the extra ports not detected on Mac Pro 1,1 2006
Hi guys, first-time poster here. Thanks in advance! I have successfully installed Xubuntu 17.10 (XFCE) following a guide from mattgadient.com on a Mac Pro 1,1 2006. I could confirm that the two SATA...
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[ubuntu] Messed up migration of a dual boot on a SSD: broken Ubuntu boot
Hello, I need some help to fix my non-booting Ubuntu. I have a Macbook Pro with a dual boot OS X / Ubuntu 16.04.3. I have recently bought a SSD. I have cloned the full HD disk with Clonezilla, changed...
View Article[ubuntu] How to take away 3 finger multitouch gestures on MacBook Air?
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The trackpad on my macbook brings up a sort of 'alt-tab' menu when I put three fingers down. I hate this. Whenever I am trying to scroll I always end up doing this. How...
View Article[PPC] Ubuntu Mate 16.04 fresh install with updates killed YouTube!
Hi all, I had to reinstall Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on My G5 PwerMac. After reinstalling (and allowing updates while reinstalling), YouTube no longer works with Firefox -it gets stuck as if 'buffering' with a...
View Article[xubuntu] Switched to HWE stack, now brightness keys don't do anything
I'm running Xubuntu 16.04 on a MacBook Pro 9,1. I switched to the HWE stack by running this command - Code: $ sudo apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04...
View ArticleCan't boot to USB or DVD - Mac Pro Hardware
Greetings, All! I have a Mac Pro box - an older one of the lovely brushed aluminium variety, dual XEON procs, 16 GB RAM, TB's of storage, including an SSD for /boot, that I've had kubuntu running on...
View ArticleNo wireless extension on fresh dual Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install
Hi, I have just installed Ubuntu 16.04 on an old macbook pro (2010) with dual OSX boot (through rEFInd). Wireless connection works on OSX however it is not showing up in Ubuntu at all, although...
View Article[ubuntu] Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Doesn't boot up and does not open terminal or boots...
Hello, I installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in my old mid 2010 macbook, and everything went fine until I selected to use the proprietary and tested nvidia drivers. Then I rebooted the system and a purple...
View Article[SOLVED] Firefox looks blurry
I'm on a MacBook with a high DPI screen. Ubuntu looks fantastic and I scale 1.75. However, Firefox looks very blurry. I've tried the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx in the About:Config section, but that...
View ArticleManually set FANspeed?
Hello, i am brand new to ubuntu ( and computers in general ) I have a very old iMac27"(2010 ish), wich i have put in a SSD, when i took out the old HDD it made the fans go at full speed constant. I...
View ArticleUbuntu installer can't see internal Mac HDD
Hi folks, I've been trying to set up an Ubuntu 16.04 partition on my MacBook Pro (2017). I've created a dedicated 100gig partition for it (diskutil below). However when I try to install Ubuntu from my...
View ArticleGestures on MacBook Pro
I have Ubuntu 17.10 in a triple boot setup on my MacBook Pro 12,1. Two finger scrolling and secondary tap work fine, but I'm wondering, is there anyway to set up three and four finger gestures? How...
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