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Ubuntu AMD Catalyst install

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If you like to update your AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Drivers to the latest release, or would like to try the latest AMD Catalyst™ BETA Drivers, this application is for you. 

Looking for a reliable consistent way to update my AMD / ATi graphics drivers on multiple Ubuntu machines. I decided to write my own GUI installation program to do the job. All comments and improvements are very welcome as this is purely a personal project at this point and must be considered a work in progress. 

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How to setup an Ubuntu Business Box Server - UBB Part 1

Submitted by The Fan Club on

This guide is based on various community forum posts and webpages. Special thanks to all. All comments and improvements are very welcome as this is purely a personal experimental project at this point and must be considered a work in progress.

 

 

 

This guide is intended as a relatively easy step by step guide to:

Install and configure an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server for use by small and medium enterprises as business server providing the following features:

How to setup an Ubuntu Business Box Server - UBB Part 2

Submitted by The Fan Club on

This guide is based on various community forum posts and webpages. Special thanks to all. All comments and improvements are very welcome as this is purely a personal experimental project at this point and must be considered a work in progress.

This guide is intended to be part 2 of How to setup an Ubuntu Business Box Server

How to add a Wireless LAN adaptor static IP to Ubuntu that auto connects at startup

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  • You need to manually add your wifi (wlan0) interface details to your /etc/network/interfaces file.
  • If you are using a WPA or WPA2 password on your wifi network you need to convert the WPA-PSK password to HEX.
  • To create a HEX encoded key for your wifi network configuration use the following command (remove < >) :
sudo wpa_passphrase <Your Wifi Network SSID>  <Your Wifi WPA/WPA2 password>

How to Fix Ubuntu Boot Splash Screen after GRUB updates

Submitted by The Fan Club on

1. The mystery of the missing boot splash screen

For many years now - on almost all computers that I have installed Ubuntu on - Plymouth, the graphical boot splash screen in Ubuntu stops working after the first install or update of GRUB.

It is all due to a little variable called $vt_handoff in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file that blacklists my graphic cards and decides wrongly that I am not allowed to see a graphical boot screen. 

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