[ubuntu] Sound Applet shows no devices topic

Sound works. I can see audio devices if I go:

lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"

Also I can hear it. ...but the sound applet displays no sound devices so it would not appear to be a device or driver issue. It would appear to be directly realted to the mixer applet. Hm... I'll install another PulseAudio mixer and check results.

[other] Grub shows only minimal bash on UEFI/Win8 System topic

I am trying to install Zorin 9 along Windows 8. If i deactivate UEFI, Windows cannot boot so i need to have UEFI on all the time.

Computer: Acer Aspire Laptop

I told the Zorin installer to put the bootloader directly on sda, not a ceratin partition, because i didnt want it to shoot down the windows loader. After the install, i only get the grub minimal bash and have no idea what to do. ( i still can boot windows by using a special function "choose boot device" of the BIOS, so the windows loader appears to be fine, but normaly after switched on, the broken grub appears)

Tried bootrepair on live CD, it didnt help: http://paste2.org/_dbIdFkMd

Also, the folder /boot/UEFI is empty, on the Zorin partition.

[ubuntu] Clean install ubuntu, only GRUB commandline shows up topic

Hi,
Is there anybody out there?
Just nob if you can here me..

Im just kidding, I bought a new notebook acer aspire e11 yesterday with preinstalled windows 8.1, I go straight to install ubuntu 14.04 , I create partition as instructed in this link
http://www.tecmint.com/ubuntu-14-04-installation-guide/
However, when clicking install, theres warning message that I have to create boot partition ( not /boot) and define it as EFI mode. I gave it 200mb. However, after install, there is no bootable device, only grub commandline appear. I logged into bios and setup my only hard disk as first priority, but its still remains.

I tried boot-repair with recommended options, but situation still the same.
Heres the diagnostic result
http://paste.ubuntu.com/10178359/

Anyone help me please