Hello Fernando, Scot & John: kindly ignore my earlier request. I learned it's feasible to do a gconftool correction in terminal: rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
Finally,reload panel: pkill gnome-panel it worked and I'm using my laptop again. Thanks again. Kenneth On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Kenneth Koym <[email protected]> wrote: > Fermando, Scot & John/Anyone: g > My Acer Laptop lost its panel "applications"; "places"; "System"; "Shut > Down" panel drop down. Nothing remains to restore. Right clicking does not > pop up a shut down either; but right clicking does come up with options: > "Create Folder, Create Folder, Create Document, Clean up Name, & Change > Desktop Background." Can you mention a command that I may write into > "terminal" which I can open from the desktop? What terminal fix will > "reconstitute" or > reconfigure the panel with the icon repopulated? > > I'd sure appreciate your guidance. [perhaps this resulted from a > hyperactive keyboard, which I guess has something to do with a motherboard > issue.] > > Kenneth > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Scott Lavender > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Roy Damen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear John, >>> >>> On my machine i had a similar problem with rt. After more than 1,5 year >>> of searching, trying out and lots of help with explanation on the >>> ubuntuforums i discovered that it was this BIOS setting that must be turned >>> off: IOAPIC It seems that ubuntu can manage this by itself(if i understood >>> correctly) I bet this solves your problem too! >>> >>> 2010/5/7 jONE <[email protected]> >>> >>>> Hi Fernando I've got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ processor too and had >>>> problems with the RT kernel since I first installed 8.04 onwards. I tried >>>> pretty much everything until a few days ago, when I simply "loaded >>>> optimized >>>> settings" on my BIOS and believe it or not, no mouse delay and no hanging >>>> at >>>> all. My hammerfall soundcard's delay <10ms recording 16channels. I honestly >>>> don't know what setting in the BIOS messed it up since "optimized settings" >>>> or "default settings" options don't specify much and I've tweaked the thing >>>> so many times I lost track of what the original setting was! Maybe give >>>> that >>>> a try? >>>> Good luck! >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>> >> I remember several years ago there were some problems with peoples systems >> acting sluggish or freezing with the -rt kernel during Hardy. If I remember >> correctly it had to do with acpi, although I cannot find any of those emails >> on the mailing list. >> >> However, I did find a Ubuntu Studio review by Dave Phillips that also >> mentions the acpi situation: >> >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/judgement-day-studio-dave-tests-ubuntu-studio-904 >> >> Also, this 64Studio forum posts discusses it a little more: >> http://www.64studio.com/node/1111 >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> ScottL >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users >> >> >
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