[ELECTRON] Crazy Ubuntu.

[JOHN COUZIN]

Thanks,   no problems with Windows, but I preferred Ubuntu for the year or so that it worked great. In the last week I also had difficulty with Ubuntu in linking to a network wifi printer it did at first then it didn't and then it did, and then never again. I'll have a look at what you say. Thanks again.   John.




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 From: Martin McGrath <mcgrath.martin at gmail.com>
To: Discussion list for the Electron Club <members at electronclub.org> 
Sent: Friday, 22 March 2013, 0:08
Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Crazy Ubuntu.
 
John,

You say Ubuntu reports a system error but don't say what it is. Perhaps if
you can provide this someone can advise further.

It certainly sounds like it's having weird graphics problems, though if
you're not experiencing similar problems when running Windows this suggests
software rather than hardware. In recent releases the standard Ubuntu
distribution has made a lot of changes to the windows manager. If you have
the time check out Xubuntu ( http://xubuntu.org/), it doesn't require a 3D
graphics card and is lighter on resources while maintaining features like
the Software center/app store etc.

Cheers

Martin
On Mar 21, 2013 11:53 PM, "JOHN COUZIN" <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>     I'm looking for a bit of help. I have been using Ubuntu for about a
> year now and found it great. However this week it suddenly went haywire, it
> froze, words disappeared, the screen broke up, images distorted, and
> sometimes I ended up with the screen split diagonally with a line across
> from corner to corner. I kept getting messages stating that Ubuntu had a
> system error, reported the error but it kept on coming with the same
> message. I have uninstalled it about six or seven times and re-installed
> alternating between 12.04 and 12.1 systems from the Ubuntu download page.
> They both work fine until the first updates come through and after the
> update, it is back to the banana antics. I have also got windows on the
> computer, but as I have said everything worked fine for about a year. Any
> ideas, before I go crazy.    John.
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