Sebastian Spiess wrote: > Hi Dan, > > I had the same thought that the alternate intaller would be better. > > Well, the installation went without problems - some things took a while but > still. > After the installation the reboot got stuck at the same spot again - > 'starting GNOME displ manager' - as you suggested I > let it run for ... more than 20min. Although the fan went on once in a while > the notebook seemed rather idle the whole time. > > the strange thing is I have another even older and lower spec dell notebook > which I upgraded from hardy to intrepid > beta/rc/.. - slow sometimes but no problems here... > > Could it be that on the first start there is some lengthy hardware > detection/config file thing going on?
It sounds more like there's a mismatch between the driver Xorg is selecting and your actual hardware. You can get back to a terminal/tty from X by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1, and then logging in with your credentials from there. Have a look at the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if there are any notable error messages, particularly towards the end. If it makes no sense to you, post it to the list and I'll have a look over it. -Dan -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
