Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu hanging

2022-12-20 Thread Peter Merchant via dorset
Consider this sorted. I changed the monitor for another LG Flatron from our old computer, and it is behaving well. I guess  the old monitor is giving up. Peter On 14/12/2022 18:30, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: I think it's more likely that you have a bad display cable, perhaps? Hamish On

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu hanging

2022-12-14 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
I think it's more likely that you have a bad display cable, perhaps? Hamish On 14/12/2022 12:28, Peter Merchant wrote: I seem to remember a discussion some time ago about changing screen firmware from NVidia to Nouveau. Is it possible that doing this would fix my problem? Peter( this time

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu hanging

2022-12-14 Thread Peter Merchant
I seem to remember a discussion some time ago about changing screen firmware from NVidia to Nouveau. Is it possible that doing this would fix my problem? Peter( this time using his correct email address!) On 13/12/2022 21:50, Peter Merchant via dorset wrote: Just now when this occurred, I

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu hanging

2022-12-13 Thread Peter Merchant via dorset
Just now when this occurred, I switched off the monitor, and after a few seconds switched it back on and the screen came back to life.  So the problem  isn't with Kubuntu, unless there is something in the graphics causing it.   Maybe my screen is getting old.  It's random because it didn't

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu hanging

2022-12-11 Thread Tim
If you have an older kernel on your system boot using that to make sure its not a kernel issue Tim H On 11/12/2022 12:55, Peter Merchant wrote: If I leave my  Kubuntu 20.04 for awhile, I have usually left Thunderbird and Vivaldi up, and when I come back and try and do something the

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu hanging

2022-12-11 Thread Terry Coles
On 11/12/2022 12:55, Peter Merchant wrote: If I leave my  Kubuntu 20.04 for awhile, I have usually left Thunderbird and Vivaldi up, and when I come back and try and do something the computer goes off into never-never  land, the screen goes blank, and I can hear the HD crunching, and it needs

[Dorset] Kubuntu hanging

2022-12-11 Thread Peter Merchant
If I leave my  Kubuntu 20.04 for awhile, I have usually left Thunderbird and Vivaldi up, and when I come back and try and do something the computer goes off into never-never  land, the screen goes blank, and I can hear the HD crunching, and it needs the power button hold down to shut it down.