Today I ran the newest Trisquel 7 from a USB stick. It took a few minutes
for me to encounter the problem, and it seemed to be only after I started
browsing websites. I tried to take some screen grabs, but they came out
black. :)
I tried 7 again, this time adding ath9k_htc.conf first, then switching to
jxself's kernel. Eventually, I had the same problems. Garbled menus and
windows, followed by an extreme slowdown and total lockup. It happens
regardless of whether I have the wi-fi device plugged in.
The workaround is really easy, but hopefully it's enabled by default in the
final version.
After reading the suggestions, I tried jxself's kernel. It resulted in the
ugly terminal boot screen being replaced by a nice Trisquel logo and
background, but it also killed my wi-fi access again, leaving me no way to
ask how to fix it.
So, I installed 6.01 instead. That's working
Do you use an ath9k_htc adapter? (If you aren't sure, post the output of
running lsusb in a terminal)
I purchased the TPE-N150USB, which is indeed mentioned on the page you cited.
I think I'll wait a few more months before testing Trisquel 7 again.
The problem has increased to graphical artifacts on various parts of the
desktop, to the point of it becoming a jumbled patchwork of image fragments.
Even opening the logs caused graphical glitches and a system freeze.
In earlier versions of Trisquel, I sometimes experienced freezes as
If there was spyware in your system, it would be running quietly, because the
last thing someone spying on you would want to do is have you find out.
Shortly after typing my reply, upon trying to browse another folder,
everything locked up during the loading message (again). This time,
however, it eventually fell back to the terminal screen, where I was able to
copy down some of what appeared before the desktop reappeared (though still
That leaves three possibilities that I can envision: 1) a legitimate error in
the system, 2) an incomptentent spy, or 3) someone is trying to cause me
stress. The first is the most probable, but I cannot yet discount the
others.
Graphics issue.
You might try powering down, disconnecting the video card, power up then down
again after a few seconds, then put the card back in, connect the monitor and
power up. This will not make one iota of difference if it's a driver issue,
but might help if it's a messed up
You could try asking for help on IRC, channel #nouveau on irc.freenode.net.
One crutch that might allow you to use your machine in the meanwhile would be
to hold the shift key when the system is booting up, that should bring up the
GRUB boot loader menu. In that menu edit the boot options
I'll have to try something, because running anything useful on it makes it
lock up every few minutes.
Do you have nVidia? I had graphics artifacts on a computer with nVidia with
Trisquel 7 but not 6. Upgrading your kernel may help (using jxself's repo).
About the other issues, i don't know, but I used to have weird issues
occasionally and it turned out to be because my keyboard's home key
Yes, ION is an Intel/nVidia combination.
As for the keys, that's what I thought at first, too. So I disassembled and
cleaned my keyboard (a few weeks ago, when I was still using Lubuntu), but
nothing changed.
I
bought the Think Penguin wi-fi adapter so that I could switch back to
using Trisquel, as I'd been using Lubuntu for wi-fi compatibility after
moving beyond cable reach. I chose to try Trisquel 7 instead of 6.01
because it's nearing completion, and for the most part it's working
well. Where
Here's a few random things to do
There are various more or less cryptic logs in /var/log.
You could boot off a Trisquel live CD or USB and leave the memory checker
running overnight.
You could try making a live CD on another well behaving system and then
running it on this system, first
I would have thought that it's extremely unlikely that it's them messing
with your computer, unless you're some kind of recognised name planning to
promote libresoftware to the world, or a spy.
More likely is some sort of hardware issue. I've had mirror characters
onscreen, typing that
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