Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Install latest NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

Latest NVIDIA driver manual install on Ubuntu

NVIDIA driver installation

Do you love your Ubuntu box? I’m too.
Being loyal Ubuntu user, earlier or later you will meet with such scenario:
you’ve bought powerful NVIDIA graphics card, inserted it into your PC box and tried to boot Ubuntu. What’s the <censored>?! Your new graphic card isn’t recognized by your loving Ubuntu box. It just hasn’t suitable driver package for this modern hardware. You can get this or similar message from Ubuntu during boot process then:
Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode.
The following error was encountered,
You may need to update your configuration to solve this.
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module…
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What to do?

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Terminal window size and position in Gnome Ubuntu

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Change Ubuntu Gnome terminal window default size and position

Ubuntu Terminal Size

How often you started terminal window in your Ubuntu box? How often after terminal window starting you click “Terminal” menu item at the top and select “4. 132×43” or other window size which is different from the default one, which is “1. 80×24”? Do you drag your just opened terminal window to the new position at your desktop, right and down? Do you repeat these annoying routine steps day by day, again and again?
Me do :).
Are you tired doing this not too much smart job instead of making something useful? My patience is finished today. After about 1 year of every day clicks to change terminal window size and position to more convenient for me I finally turned on my curiosity and “googled” the subject. Success! A lot of people met this problem, asked about it on forums and of course decision exists. Thanks to Ubuntu community for sharing that with us.

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Remove Old Linux Kernel from Ubuntu Bootloader Menu

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Remove Old Linux Kernel

Remove Old Linux Kernel

Do you use Ubuntu? If “Yes”, you are familiar with such GRUB bootloader menu items as:

GNU GRUB version 1.98-1 ubuntu 7
Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32.25-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32.25-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32.24-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32.24-generic (recovery mode)

These additional menu items for older Linux kernels make available recover option in case of any accident with your current Linux kernel. It is right. We should to have at least 2 Linux kernels load options: current version and previous one. But with every Linux kernel update quant of such bootloader menu items grows. What to do with it? How to exclude unneeded Linux kernels from the bootloader menu? Yes, that’s possible and (don’t wonder) quite simple.

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GNU Midnight Commander valid lines and boxes via Putty

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

MC invalid lines

MC invalid lines

MC valid lines

MC valid lines


If go to the Linux web server from Windows box using Putty terminal, some times you can see strange effect after GNU Midnight Commander (MC) start. MC window doesn’t show valid pseudo-graphics symbols which it uses for boxes and lines drawing. Look on example at the screenshot from the left. To make this visual presentation valid,

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