12.04 was to old for me so, i want nvidia always-on. so lets go further and try ubuntu 13.10 and mod it:
if have not already done you need to do step 0, 1 (with different iso) and 2 from here.
if you're already lucky linux user just:
get the iso 13.10 64bit here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
apt-get install unetbootin
call unetbootin as root, select the iso and your usb-device
boot with legacy mode (see step 2 here)
press F11 till you boot from usb stick...
scroll to "install ubuntu" then hit "tab"
remove the "quiet, splash" and instead add "nomodeset". hit enter
plugin your ethernet cable or connect to your wifi at top-right (attention as you got us keyboard)
i select also "update while installing" and "thirdparty software"
"something else" as i want to partition manually
i selected some free space on the first disk, hit "+" then my size of 30GB, logical, mounted as "/". let it create and hit "install now". if you want to add also a swap partition ("+", change size and type = swap)
as device for the grub i've selected "sda" Device. Grub install will fail. But thats ok...
We continue without bootloader.
reboot, reset uefi in bios
i booted back to ubuntu 12.04 and did there a
update-grub
if this is your first linux, use the grub-fix method described in the other post...
as ubuntu 13.10 did install nouveau which seg-faults at bootup, i stayed in my 12.04 setup and mounted the 13.10 partition to changeroot into it
chroot /media/xy
apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
reboot and select 13.10 from grub
things wont startup right but with ctrl+alt+F11 and login
sudo su -
apt-get install nvidia-prime nvidia-319 nvidia-settings-319
reboot
x should come up correct...
Tweaks
next i tweaked ubuntu like described here:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/8-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu.html
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/gimp-29-210-development-builds.html
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/get-sound-working-in-skype-with-ubuntu.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2183447
http://www.howopensource.com/2012/10/create-application-launcher-add-icon-to-unity-ubuntu-12-10/
and
gsettings
set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses disabled-scopes
"['more_suggestions-amazon.scope', 'more_suggestions-u1ms.scope',
'more_suggestions-populartracks.scope', 'music-musicstore.scope',
'more_suggestions-ebay.scope', 'more_suggestions-ubuntushop.scope',
'more_suggestions-skimlinks.scope', 'help-askubuntu.scope',
'web-chromiumbookmarks.scope', 'music-clementine.scope',
'graphics-colourlovers.scope', 'graphics-deviantart.scope',
'reference-dictionary.scope', 'info-ddg_related.scope',
'more_suggestions-etsy.scope', 'photos-facebook.scope',
'photos-flickr.scope', 'info-foursquare.scope', 'books-gallica.scope',
'code-github.scope', 'books-googlebooks.scope', 'news-googlenews.scope',
'recipes-gourmet.scope', 'music-grooveshark.scope',
'music-guayadeque.scope', 'reference-jstor.scope',
'info-medicines.scope', 'photos-picasa.scope',
'recipes-recipepuppy.scope', 'info-reddit.scope', 'video-remote.scope',
'reference-googlescholar.scope', 'reference-sciencedirect.scope',
'photos-shotwell.scope', 'social.scope', 'info-songkick.scope',
'music-songsterr.scope', 'music-soundcloud.scope',
'reference-stackexchange.scope', 'help-texdoc.scope',
'reference-themoviedb.scope', 'notes-tomboy.scope',
'weather-weatherchannel.scope', 'reference-wikipedia.scope',
'news-yahoostock.scope', 'help-yelp.scope', 'info-yelpplaces.scope',
'reference-zotero.scope', 'reference-europeana.scope',
'code-devhelp.scope', 'graphics-openclipart.scope',
'weather-openweathermap.scope', 'reference-pubmed.scope']"
http://lifehacker.com/5887462/how-to-disable-ubuntus-annoying-global-menu-bar
https://fixubuntu.com/
Some notes:
1. looks like i can not move from unity to gnome-shell as i always had problems with installing gdm. but if you want to try you can/should be able to do this:
apt-get install gdm
reboot
add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next
add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install gnome-shell
apt-get install gnome-documents gnome-contacts epiphany-browser gnome-boxes gnome-shell-extensions gnome-tweak-tool bijiben gnome-clocks
apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar
reboot
log in, and
ctrl + alt + t
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false
to get the mouse back
2. if you want to experiment with newer nvidia drivers get them here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
3. experiment with the 3.12 kernel from here, but it does not work with nvidia-319:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.12-saucy/
wget
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.12-saucy/linux-headers-3.12.0-031200-generic_3.12.0-031200.201311031935_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.12-saucy/linux-headers-3.12.0-031200_3.12.0-031200.201311031935_all.deb
wget
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.12-saucy/linux-image-3.12.0-031200-generic_3.12.0-031200.201311031935_amd64.deb
dpkg -i linux*3.12*.deb
4. if you lost the fn-X keys: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2174250
5. after kernel upgrades reboot and if X comes up or or jus low-grafix-mode is available do this:
dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-prime nvidia-319 virtualbox-dkms
