Have you done all of the upgrades? Have you booted the Live CD and does it crash on your hardware?
Maybe you want to consider: 1) deleting your settings for Gnome and KDE by deleting the hidden folders .gnome2 and .kde 2) doing a fresh installation from scratch. Roy 2009/11/9 Scott Vargovich <[email protected]> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sometimes ubuntu can do funky things with certain hardware. I can't > even run it on my laptop because everything in it is Intel based. I'm > not sure I have an answer for you, but to give me and others a better > idea of what type of hardware you're running, post the output of > 'lspci' as root. We can make better suggestions once we know the > hardware you're dealing with. > > ubuntulearner wrote: > > Hi everybody, i need a little help with (k)ubuntu 9.10. I have a > > laptop; I used it with ubuntu 9.04 and recently made un update to > > 9.10 via apt.-get, and it works greatly, both under Gnome and under > > KDE. In my pc I had fedora and I decided to switch to Ubuntu. It > > works quite well though I have some problems. For instance, in > > Gnome I sometimes "lose" desktop theme: I use Dust but sometimes a > > problems occurs and my desktop turns to a "windows 95 clone". > > Moreover, both under Gnome and KDE there are quite often some > > random crashes with file manager; the system continues working, but > > I have to open again all the windows. Some programs (like aMule) > > are impossible to use, since they crash every 2 minutes; these > > happens randomly, even though I just sit and watch the screen. I > > installed kubuntu and then ubuntu (sudo apt-get install ubuntu- > > desktop), then tried to do the opposite, installing ubuntu and then > > kubuntu (sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop) but nothing has > > changed. > > > > I thought it could be a problem with video drivers, but i use the > > ones "suggested" by kubuntu after the installation. I memtested my > > pc and nothing was wrong; how can it be possible to have problems > > with my pc and not with my laptop? Can anybody help me? TIA > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkr4DwQACgkQz4LpFfj13H4z3wCgpemY4PEqh7eTss2gsiR9vCfi > fa4An3neYIh/LtDuKHflG1DJJsBoDtMy > =pjo9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
