Check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, see what graphics you're running.
The compositor sounds broken, and might just need a different solution
(ie. changing nouveau to nvidia blob). Compositors break grandly with
nouveau still, and yours sounds quite broken for some reason.
I tried mint debian, nothing but issues with graphics and my ati, but
might be better now that ati/mesa works better to abandon the
proprietary amd blob, ended up back at ubuntu afterwards once I
discovered the mini.iso installers to avoid desktop installer issues.
Try kde, apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. If nothing else I like their
grub bootsplash better in black, and kwin has generally been a much
better compositor.
-mb
On 06/18/2016 06:00 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
Dennis McClellan[1]
My problem with [Unity][2] is the frozen gray screen. It doesn't matter what
program or website I'm on, I get the gray frozen screen, not always, but often.
Have you tried booting the troublesome device from Ubuntu on live media (e.g.,
LiveUSB)? That would help determine whether your device is having problems with
a stock Ubuntu or with something else on your specific configuration. FWIW, I
don't buy anything computational anymore unless either (1) it has a
no-questions-asked money-back guarantee (and I see reason to believe the vendor
follows through), or (2) I've been able to {boot the box, test core functions}
from my current distro of choice, which is currently Linux Mint Debian Edition
(LMDE2)[3].
Keith Smith[4]
Note that Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu
Umm ... that depends ...
1. ... on what you mean by "Mint." Mint the project (i.e., linuxmint.com) provides
multiple editions[5], of which the two main ones are have different package bases, which are
helpfully referred to as Debian-based (i.e., LMDE) and Ubuntu-based (aka "classic Mint").
Of course, the package base of Ubuntu is also Debian, but Canonical's PPA system[6] is a major
addition.
2. ... on what you mean by "derivative." Clement Lefebvre (pause to bow in his
general direction) and team are quite opinionated and more than willing to
remove/substitute even major bits of Ubuntu, notably Unity[2].
HTH, Tom Roche <[email protected]>
[1]: http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20160618.171406.d7b0efb6.en.html
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)
[3]: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
[4]: http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20160618.220622.5f8344d0.en.html
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint#Editions
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Package_Archive
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