Ubuntu :: Installing 10.04 And Higher With Windows 7
Sep 20, 2010
i currently use a toshiba A200 with 2.0 core duo processor, and an I 945 chipset. since the laptop is quite old now, i am planning to buy another toshiba. since i want an ultraportable, i have narrowed down on the nice satellite T235 or the much acclaimed portege R700. now these laptops are being shipped with windows 7 OS. installed a dual boot option of 10.04 in any of these computers ? i had tried quite some time ago to do a dual boot in a compaq. however, there was some problem with the boot loader and i although ubuntu installed nicely, i was simply unable to get the system to boot up ! so is there a compatibility issue with 10.04 and later versions on the one hand and and windown 7 on the other ?
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Mar 11, 2010
installing ubuntu onto a windows system without erasing windows. I know there is wubi, but I ask you whether also with the ubuntu live cd I am able to install ubuntu, into a separate partition, without erasing windows.
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Apr 13, 2010
I have tried numerous times to upgrade to 9.10, different .iso's, different methods (update manager vs. live CD, fresh install) on my Dell Dimension 2350 desktop. Every single time there is a screen freeze after awhile. Hard boot, repeat, etc. The screen will remain visible, but it will become completely non-responsive. Eventually I sigh and reload 9.04, which has aways worked perfectly on this computer (after loading the restricted-extras of course).
I have also recently tried the beta 2 of 10.04, hoping that was just a Karmic problem I had. Again I tried it by doing the update method (yes, going to 9.10 first then to 10.04, long day!) and a fresh install. I was pleased at first, but as soon as I could smile... crash!. The monitor flicks, goes black, then shuts down (the green "on" light will turn to amber, on but off). The CPU light remains green, but of course all I could do is press the button to shut down the computer.
I have never filed a bug report before, but will do that if needed. I read the "directions" to filing bugs (in Absolute Beginners Talk) and and it says to be sure this bug is not already filed. Hm, if I have not filed one before how am I supposed to know the answer to that?!?
BTW I had 9.10, plus now I have 10.04 running on my Dell Inspirion 1550 laptop with no problem at all. In fact 10.04 has been on that computer since Alpha 3.
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Jan 2, 2010
My Ubuntu can not go any higher then 640x480. I have found out what the problem is. The monitor has broken down (firmware or some thing) but still works fine in Windows. How do i know this ? Well a few mouths ago i was on Windows Me and one day it booted up saying that it is installing a default driver for the screen , so i let it do and after it did that it would never use the VA702 driver. Also the resolution could get higher then 1280x1024(this is the screens biggest res). A other mouth later i installed Windows XP and when using it i tried to install the VA702 driver but it did not work so i had to manually install it which worked but did not get correct resolutions e.g. could go higher than the monitor is meant to go. Now in Ubuntu can't go higher then 640x480. How can i fix this ?
Screen : ViewSonic VA702
Graphics Card : Winfast My Vivo A170 Geforce 4 MX 440 AGP 4x 64MB DDR
Ubuntu:9.10
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Jan 8, 2010
I'm trying to make get a higher resolution when I use Ctrl+Alt+F2, I've looked up in other forums but apparently 9.10 changed its methods to fixing your desired resolution. I've tried other ways of changing it but I get an error when I boot in to the system, I have Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, a GeForce 8800m GTS, the highest my screen can go is 1440x900.
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Feb 27, 2010
After struggling with this for 2 days and getting nowhere, I found this simple solution.
1. Download packages http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/gen...it_9.10.tar.gz and http://ajoliveira.com/ajoliveira/gen...rg.conf.tar.gz.
One of these contains the driver files and the other a xorg.conf file.
2. Extract the 2 archives by double-clicking on them.
3. Copy the xorg.conf file to the /etc/X11 directory code...
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May 24, 2010
Resolution won't go higher than 640x480 with a TV
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Jul 2, 2010
I have just done a clean install of 10.04 and cannot for the life of me set the resolution higher then 800x600 When I go to change the resolution I am greeted with a unknown monitor.
lspci | grep -i vga
VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9] (rev 01)
Here is the Xorg config file I have configured
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
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Jan 1, 2011
I've changed my operating system from Vista to Linux Ubuntu 10.10. Now I stand in front of the problem to change the screen resolution. The current resolution is 800x600.How can I change to a higher resolution?
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Apr 2, 2011
The audacious in the ubuntu software center is an old version and I really hate it.
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Jun 20, 2011
It was said that Win 7's Virtual PC is not suitable for installing Ubuntu 10.04 Is there any method at all that it will work? The following is the scenario I ran into: The first time Ubuntu 10.04 installation CD-R boots up, it asked for the Language, and "Install Ubuntu" and then the screen has vertical green bars and then the VPC just closed. The 2nd or 3rd time it booted up, there is no asking of Language or "Install Ubuntu" and just shut down the VPC, sometimes with vertical green bars. I even created another new hard drive and same thing happened. And created VPC 02, and same thing happened. Created VPC 03 with a fixed hard drive size of 60GB and same thing happened.
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Jun 24, 2011
I know this seems odd, but here, I am getting this error when I launch the exe. I don't know what to do!
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Feb 8, 2010
I'm trying to add a higher resolution to my system. I've tried to edit xorg.conf but I think I'm wrong. Everytime I edit and reboot, it tells me I need to run in low graphics mode for now. Now I'm trying 'xrandr.' I was able to create a new mode just fine, but when I try to add it to the appropriate output, I get this:
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prog@ubuntu:~$ xrandr --addmode LVDS1 1280x1024_50.00
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 149 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 18 (RRAddOutputMode)
Serial number of failed request: 25
Current serial number in output stream: 26
Here's what xrandr returns:
Code:
prog@ubuntu:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 286mm x 214mm
1024x768 60.0*+ 50.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 59.9
TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1280x1024 (0x111) 109.0MHz
h: width 1280 start 1368 end 1496 total 1712 skew 0 clock 63.7KHz
v: height 1024 start 1027 end 1034 total 1063 clock 59.9Hz
1280x1024_50.00 (0x112) 89.4MHz
h: width 1280 start 1352 end 1488 total 1696 skew 0 clock 52.7KHz
v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1054 clock 50.0Hz
I don't know why it puts it in TV1. There's two of them because I tried two different refresh rates.
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Mar 3, 2010
I am having a major problem in a new Karmic install. Big rationalisation. Kicked out a lot of machines in favour of Virtual machines. Installed Karmic. Machine has dual 22" wide screen monitors, max res 1680 x 1050. Karmic installed at maximum 800 x 600 and will not go above that. I have looked for xorg.conf and cannot find one anywhere. I have tried the randr as shown by Sharaq but when I try to set the higher resolution it gives message saying maximum size is 800 x 600. I have downloaded the proprietory drivers from Radeon and tried to run them. The installer runs but I cannot get to the 'Continue' button because it is off the bottom of my screen so I cannot set up the drivers. I suspect I am going to have the same problem with the Lucid install I did yesterday. Earlier releases never gave me this issue so why now?
Why is the initial resolution so low?
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Apr 30, 2010
I lost the higher resolutions for my computer. The highest available is 1360x768 (which doesn't work well) and currently I'm using 1024x768. Before, I had 1280x1024 working well and I even had higher resolutions available in nvidia-settings. I've ubuntu 9.10 with nvidia drivers (185.18.36).
I've read [URL].. but not necessarily all of it or understood all of it. I've tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and the xrandr stuff but nothing has changed, except what xrandr reports, regarding the addition of two modelines 1280x1024. In the end, I suppose something has corrupted some file but how can I figure it out?
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Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 50.0*
800x600 51.0 52.0 53.0
680x384 54.0 55.0
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May 7, 2010
I have been on Ubuntu for a total of about 1 hour now, as I have finally made the switch from Windows. So far so good, but I do have some learning to do. First off, when I got Ubuntu 10.04 installed, everything worked great! Video lagged a little however. No biggy. The next time I booted up, it asked if I wanted to install video card drivers. I thought this is why my video was lagging, so I said yes. It then automatically installed my nvidia card drivers.
Then when I rebooted, I was greeted with a 640x480 screen resolution. When I go to System->Preferences->Monitors, I am given a warning that says: "It appears that your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool. Do you want to use your graphics drivers vendor's tool instead?"
Regardless if I hit "yes" or "no" I am brought to windows that should allow me to change resolutions. However, the only resolutions I can choose are 640x480 and 320x240. I know my "monitor" can support higher resolutions as I was running it at higher resolutions before the switch to Ubuntu. (I put monitor in quotes, as I am using a large rear projection T.V. as my monitor). How I can get a higher resolution?
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Jun 30, 2010
I'm running dual-screen. On 24" at 1920x1080 and one 19" at 1440x900. After installing Mint 9 I can't set the resolution any higher than 640x480 in nvidia-settings. I've installed the "recommended" nvidia-driver that Mint suggests.
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What could be the problem? Why can't I set the res higher than 640 in nvidia-settings? Everything worked in Mint 8 (10.04). During installation the res was higher than 640.
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Feb 8, 2011
am just coming from a clean install of Lucid Server x64 on a desktop configuration. No problems really but for one.With no GUI installed -something I wish to remain as is- I am having difficulties browsing through bash due to low resolution. So the question is: "how can I go to a higher screen resolution?"
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Sep 18, 2010
I installed Ubuntu on two seperate boxes and one of them switched itself to a higher screen resolution than the other somehow. I prefer the newer screen resolution but don't know how to switch the other box to that resolution.
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Mar 1, 2010
When I bought my computer from a friend, he told me that it had 60Gbs in it. Well, when I began to install Ubuntu Linx 9.10 I came to the point of decission of whether or not to delete Windows XP or run Ubuntu 9.10 along with Windows XP. I had a decision to make and I honestly thought I had enough free space to run both. I kept on having problems bringing up Ubuntu. It would go so far and then it would freeze. Well I updated GNOME and I was able to login and try a few things. I of course downloaded and installed the program that I needed to run the program that was running my online radio station. I also downloaded a scanner for to check virusus. I then tried to download some other softwear but I deleted them and kept the scanner and the other program that plays my radio station. Since I did that I logged out and shut down the computer. I haven't been able to get to the point to where I can login again. It freezes. How can I add more memory of free space to run Ubutu. If there is no way of doing that how can I delete Ubuntu and start all over again so that I can again install Ubuntu Linux 9.10 and take off Windows XP so I can run Ubuntu. I really do like the Ubuntu's system. It is so very quick bringing up websites. I have a 32bit download on the CD. I found out the computer was only 16Gbs.
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May 29, 2010
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #5 for /boot/grub.
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
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Jul 9, 2010
I have an Acer laptop, on which a I have Ubuntu installed with no disk partitioning. I may need to install Windows 7 on this machine but have no desire to stop using Ubuntu for normal use. Is it possible to create a partition to install Windows on, without changing my Ubuntu set up? Also, whilst I'm at it, I'd like to create a third partition for general data storage.
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Sep 29, 2010
I have two drives in my system with Windows7 installed on the first one (sda) and Ubuntu installed on the second one (sdb). I had to reinstall Windows and now I of course can't access Ubuntu since the MBR was overwritten by the Windows installer.
I followed the LiveCD recovery method described at [url] And it didn't work. When I rebooted after doing a grub-install on sda, I was simply given a Grub command line with no menu or anything. grub-install said it completed successfully and had no errors. What exactly do I need to do to get Grub set up correctly so I can access both OSes?
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Oct 22, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and i want to install windows into another partition in order to play some games. I created a partition (GParted live) 80GB in ext2 and later i convert it to NTFS ( I didnt know what the ext2 was) after that i run the windows live cd but i occured an error that windows can not be installed in none of my partitions because my partitions are unrecognizable.I think that has to do with my file stystem.. but i convert in ntfs...
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Dec 29, 2010
for linux but used to make usb installers for windows... is there any out there? or a way to do the windows usb installing process but with terminal and not command prompt
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Feb 27, 2011
First thing i want to say, i�m not very good in English, becouse im chilean, so, if i have too many gramatical errors, please let me know...
Okay, while im finishing installing Ubuntu 10.10 in Windows 7, an error pop out an says:
Ubuntu Instalador
Ocurri� un error: Error executing command
>>command=C:windowsSystem32cdedit.exe /set {f972d088-42bd-11e0-88bb-002454998f62} device partition=U:
>>retval=1
>>stderr=Error al establecer los datos del elemento.
Solicitud no compatible.
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Mar 20, 2011
I had 2 separate partitions on my computer: one for Windows 7, one without a system on it. On the 2nd of the described partition at the end of it I installed Debian Linux. (After that I had 3 usable / visible partitions.) I was looking for less hassle with drivers so I decided to install Ubuntu and make greater the partition for Linux. In a forum I saw an article describing how to uninstall (remove) Debian. Roughly it described the process as follows:Delete Debian partition from Windows. Restart and in repair mode enter "repairmbr".
I did the first step. After the restart, the grub seemed to be damaged and it wouldn't show any options. Started the Ubuntu LiveCD, made the "Linux" partition greater, moved it to the beginning of the original of the to large partitions, transformed it to an extended partition, created the swap area in the beginning of it and installed Ubuntu 10.10. All went well, a new grub was created, Windows loader was detected, but didn't work. Same after upgraded to a newer version of Linux generic kernel. The installation process detected the Windows 7 but after restart it does not work. When trying to enter it, for about 1..2 seconds the screen turns black and again the same Grub menu is shown. So the problem is that I cannot boot into Windows 7, I had pre-installed it so I don't have a disk for it. Recovery disks I made seems to be for re-installation only which is not an option at this time. All repair modes where accessible when starting Windows; any of them is not accessible.
Both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 are 64-bit systems.
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May 22, 2011
ve got this issue.The history of this notebook is:came up with windows vista preinstalled with a recovery partition.Installed windows 7 without removing the vista recovery partition. While doing this partitioned the hd in this way:
/dev/sda1 recovery
/dev/sda2 windows 7
/dev/sda3 backup space (ntfs)
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Jun 24, 2011
I'm not sure if here is the right place to ask this. After installing Ubuntu 11.04 my windows 7 installation can't boot again. I installed ubuntu on a different partiton. I can see the windows partition on my ubuntu, from the disk utility, the partition type is unknown(0x42), trying to change it gives me error.
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Jul 17, 2011
I am trying to install windows fonts on my Ubuntu 11.04.In detail, I wish I could install Calligraph412 BT and Book Antiqua fonts.
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