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vertical green stripes on the screen

I had ubuntu installed on my laptop (Sony vaio vgn-fz470e) was working with it, suddenly it restarted and then screen showed colorful squares at first and vertical green stripes remained on the ...
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Command to run as root on boot isn't working

I need to run the following command sudo xhost SI:localuser:root every time I start a machine of mine. So I'd like automate this process. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for this. I tried put this command ...
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Parallels Ubuntu not booting

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 in Parallels Desktop 7. I was trying to sudo apt-get install subversion. But I was asked to apt-get -f install. I did it. But after some time, i was asked to restart my ...
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Unable to boot windows 8 after ubuntu 12.04 installation

I just got my new notebook with windows 8 pre installed. After installing ubuntu 12.04 when I try to boot windows 8 it says "Automated Recovery in Progress" which fails afterwards and shuts down the ...
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BIOS not booting from hard disk, Ubuntu CD boot to hard disk works

After copying my Ubuntu installation from one disk to another (copy, update fstab, update-grub, grub-install /dev/sda1), the Ubuntu CD option boots from the first hard disk (localboot 0x80) – it boots ...
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Linux boot - stop the kernel switching to a new framebuffer mode clearing output

I'm working on an embedded system (based onUbuntu 12.04 LTS) and I'm customizing its kernel. I'm having some problem with upstart, mountall and plymouth. Nothing unsolvable I suppose, but the real ...
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How to speed up ubuntu boot up time?

I tried to turn off unnecessary services with BUM but the boot is still long. Here is my boot.log: fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 Ubuntu: clean, 422999/5120000 files, ...
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Windows Recovery partition unusable after Ubuntu 12.04 install on Eee PC 1005P

Installed Ubuntu 12.04 over the secondary (D:) partition with Grub2 handling multi-boot. Never accessed the 'Recovery' option in the boot menu until Windows7 Starter became unusable due to HDD failure ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 boot degraded raid

I've installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 in a new server and set up the 4 hard drives with 3 RAID 1 devices, the configuration is such that the first two drives have md0 (swap space) and md1 (/) with the third ...
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HybridGraphics vga_switcheroo switch to intel at boot [closed]

I asked my question at http://askubuntu.com/q/134428/49135 and now I'm asking it here. I have followed this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HybridGraphics but it didn't work I'm getting the error ...
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How can I configure my PC to turn on when it receives power?

How to make a server turn on when it gets mains power? I have an electricity timer and when it turns on, I want the server to turn on. My BIOS doesn't support the wake up at time function so this is ...