installation of 13.04 on Asus s550c touch screen

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 14 June 2013 16:48, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The problem was the 32 bit version.  Seems to be installing the 64 now.
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>> By the sound of it, you have a machine with UEFI and I believe that
>> works better with 64-bit Linux, yes.
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>> From this page I am guessing that it comes with 4GB RAM?
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>> https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_VivoBook_S550CA/#specifications
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>> If so, you do not need swap for performance reasons, but beware that
>> without a permanent swap partition, your machine will not support
>> hibernation.
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>> If you do /exceptionally/ memory-hungry things, then there are 2
>> alternatives for temporary swap. You can use either or both together.
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>> zRam:
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/174579/how-do-i-use-zram
>> (Possibly slightly better if you use lots of programs at once.)
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>> Swapspace:
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>> http://www.hecticgeek.com/2012/01/automatic-virtual-swap-space-creator-ubuntu-linux/
>> (Possibly slightly better if you use a smaller number of programs but
>> some handle huge files, or many large files)
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>> But in my experiments, note that neither works with hibernation:
>> http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/34124.html
>> http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/34500.html
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> Got more serious problems.  Ubuntu won't boot after install and neither
> will windows.
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> Ubuntu message says 2.022375 kernel panic- not synching.  Try passing
> init= option to kernel.  See linux documentation/init.txt
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> will make note of the windows error and report that back in a few minutes.
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> garyk
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