Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Remove Nvidia Proprietary Driver to avoid crashing

Ug... best not to purchase one of these in the first place.  Buy a different card if you can.  Nvidia is the worst.
Symptom:  Running Ubuntu 16.04 and after loading the proprietary Nvidia driver and rebooting login would fail and loop back to the login screen again.
Removed using the following:
Ctrl+Alt+F1 so you can get to a tty prompt
sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
echo "nouveau" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
sudo reboot
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean


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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Mounting 64 GB SDCard on Linux

64 gig cards are likely to use the exfat file system which is not natively supported on Linux.


UPDATED:  Add the Universe repository and then run the following:
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils


OLD Info:
I'm running Ubuntu so I ran the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fuse fuse-exfat exfat-utils

mkdir /media/sdcard
mount -t exfat -o uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1003,gid=1003,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask-0077 /dev/sde1 /media/sdcard


Initial Error Message:
Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/sdcard: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1003,gid=1003,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sde1" "/media/sdcard"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'