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2013年9月26日 星期四

adjust brightness on ubuntu

recently I'm trying Ubuntu OS which has been installed on my USB stick.

And I found that my screen brightness is too high.

In order to resolve this issue,

apt-get install xbacklight

after that, I can use my laptop's hot key to adjust the brightness of screen.

This makes me feel good,

but, while I found the touchpad isn't work well on 3, 4 finger gesture,

I was upset, again :(

2013年9月24日 星期二

How to remove an entry from efi bootloader

I was trying to setup a USB stick contents a standalone ubuntu OS which would let my win8 ultrabook more "producable".
In the end, I messed up my bootloader to have a ubuntu boot option which should be on the usb drive, and I do not even get my USB drive ready.
After several try on googling the answer on how to remove that ugly boot entry, I finally figure it out.
The way is much more than simple,
no need to delete it by efibootmgr(ubuntu), bcdedit(windows), or download the easyBCD software.

All things you gonna to do is
(1) boot your device into a ubuntu live CD which should you prepared for ubuntu installation.
(2) check which partition does EFI entry located by "gparted" (it should format in FAT32)
(3) mount it on, for example,
mount -t vfat /the-efi-partition /whatever-mount-point
(4) cd in the directory and you could find the ubuntu boot entry: EFI/ubuntu.
(5) remove the entire folder: rm -rf EFI/ubuntu

That's it, you get it.