Sorry, but the problem is still there. I change 'Visual Effects' from 'None' to 'Normal' and the system immediately hangs. No keyboard, no mouse.
Paul. On 10 September 2010 23:04, Fabio Marconi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > Is this problem present with the latest updated Karmic's or Lucid's > packages? > Thanks in advance > Fabio > > ** Changed in: ubuntu > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > Displaying a 'visual effect' causes system to hang on 9.10 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469832 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > Just upgraded to 9.10 on an Intel Atom system with a widescreen (16:9) > monitor. > > Desktop and simple applications are fine, but opening OpenOffice and > FireFox cause the system to completely hang - all I can do is to reboot with > the power or reset button. > > Similarly, the system hangs when any application displays a transparent > drop-down menu. > > When I start a Failsafe session, Appearance Preferences say 'no visual > effects' and OpenOffice and FireFox don't hang. > > So it seems to hang when the system tries to display a 'visual effect' - > suspect it is linked to the Alpha Channel functionality. > > When I load a normal Gnome session, the menu to select Application > Preferences displays a transparent dropdown, so the system hangs and I can't > check that 'visual effects: none' is not selected... > > What should happen? The system not hanging would be a good start... I can > live without transparent drop down menus for a while. > > > Follow-up: when browsing through the screensavers, one of them ('Euphoria') > caused the system to hang. Which rather fits the pattern. Whenever I try to > access the screensavers now, Euphoria is the default and the system hangs, > preventing me from changing it - which is annoying, but just another example > fo the bug at work. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/469832/+subscribe > -- http://www.hazelden.org.uk -- Displaying a 'visual effect' causes system to hang on 9.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469832 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
