On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:53 +0100, Vinothan Shankar wrote: > Barry Titterton wrote: > > Has anyone experienced random hard lock ups since upgrading to Jaunty? > > > > I am running Jaunty on an elderly Toshiba S1800 laptop (1GHz P3 with > > 512M of ram)and since upgrading to Jaunty last August I have been > > getting random hard lock ups; the cursor vanishes off the screen and the > > laptop becomes completely unresponsive. It can happen after five minutes > > or five hours, once or several times per day. I have not been able to > > find a key combination (Ctrl+Alt+Del etc) that will do anything; the > > mains button is the only option. The problem does not seem to be linked > > to any particular software as I have had two lock ups while only the > > desktop has been active. The common factor is that they only occur while > > I am moving the cursor across the screen. I do not think it is a > > hardware problem as the laptop ran Intrepid for six months with no > > problems, except for the traditional Toshiba over heating which always > > resulted in the machine shutting itself down rather than locking up. > > > > I have Googled this but have not found anyone with exactly the same > > symptoms. I am hanging on to see if Karmic will solve the problem before > > reverting to Intrepid. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > Barry > > I had an issue quite recently with Jaunty locking up to the extent that > ctrl+alt+1 wouldn't frop to a text terminal, and ctrl+alt+backspace > wouldn't restart the X server even though I disabled DontZap... I was > still able to alt+sysrq+REISUB, but that's not something I wanted to do... > > It seemed to be a problem with window managers. I tried Enlightenment > and it became stable, so I'm sticking with E for now. I don't know if > it's relevant, but you may want to see if you get the same issue if you > install and use E16 (or E17, but that requires adding another repo and > key, which you mayb not want to do...) > > E is also a _lot_ lighter than GNOME, and E17 at least provides most of > its features despite being a window manager rather than a desktop > environment. > > Hope that helps, even though it's slightly tangential. > > Vin > Thanks Vin,
This all sounds quite scary for a newbie like me. Can you please explain what Enlightenment is, and how I go about installing it? Cheers, Barry -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
