[ELECTRON] Frozen Ububntu.

[Martin McGrath]

John,

depending on the hardware configuration of your machine you could be
experiencing this problem for various reasons. Some google searches of the
ubuntu forum may be your best bet.

However one problem springs to mind. If you have an intel chipset (8xxxx)
motherboard or are using an ATI card you may suffer from this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

Workarounds described in the link above.

Thanks

Martin

On 10 September 2010 13:06, JOHN COUZIN <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Thanks Martin.
> PS2 infra red, but have changed the mouse to no effect.
> Keyboard seems to work at the booting up stage as I have down several bits
> of Footering with it but once desktop appears I have no control over
> keyboard or mouse.   John
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Martin McGrath <mcgrath.martin at gmail.com>
>
> *To:* Discussion list for the Electron Club <members at electronclub.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, 10 September, 2010 12:33:21
>
> *Subject:* Re: [ELECTRON] Frozen Ububntu.
>
> Well, in order to be any help you're going to have to provide some more
> information.
>
> What sort of mouse is it? (USB/PS2)? Wireless?
> Does your keyboard work or is that also frozen?
> If it is working try pressing the escape key then moving the mouse.
> If your keyboard is working and the escape trick doesn't work open up a new
> shell (ctrl + alt + f2) and see if dmesg or /var/log/messages sheds any
> light on the problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
>
> On 10 September 2010 12:21, JOHN COUZIN <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>    I'm looking for a bit of advice on a problem that has sprung up on one
>> of my computers. It is one that has Ubuntu and Firefox, it was running fine
>> and then an update window appeared which suggested that I could update to
>> Ububtu 10.04. I clicked OK and the upgrade began. It seemed to be a long
>> affair so I left it running and when I came back the screen had frozen.
>> unable to do anything I re-booted but no matter what I do it seems to boot
>> up and the desk top appears but the curser is frozen. I have a disc with
>> Ubuntu 10.04 on it which I downloaded after my freeze up. I should add that
>> I'm not a techno geek, I believe more in the science of footer, I just
>> footer around with things and see what happens. In this case the results are
>> nothing. John.
>>
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