[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[ale] help with hung dell after karmic install
- Subject: [ale] help with hung dell after karmic install
- From: brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:28:11 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On 11/13/2009 02:43 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed ubuntu karmic on a dell d610 (circa 2005) and it keeps
> hanging after a certain amount of X activity. It seems to be fine if I
> stay at a console. But if I launch firefox it or start a system update
> it hangs. Even my ssh session locks up and it becomes unpingable. So the
> system gets truly trashed. If I start a gui terminal it may be ok but
> switching to another window does evil things to the unfocused window
> (looks like tv snow).
Does this have intel graphics? If so, try passing the nomodeset option
to the kernel. You can do this once with these instructions [0]. If it
solves the problem you can make it permanent here by adding it to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub and running update-grub.
[0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Editing Menus During Boot
--
All the best,
Brian Pitts