Hi, I'm fairly new to Linux in general, and tried out a few distros - settling on Ubuntu - which seems to me anyway - the most user friendly and visually appealing one I have come across thus far. Any ways - I was using Feisty off and on for a couple of months, and waited with baited breath for Gutsy to be released. I did a fresh install yesterday and encountered some problems initially. While copying the installer files to the PC - the installer froze up at about 82% on the configuring apt section. Aftr a few attempts (and a reboot of my router) it installed perfectly ( or so I thought).
Once installed, I proceeded to install the Nvidia driver from the restricted list, and rebooted - and lo and behold my system came up at 1280x1024 resolution - something Feisty always refused to do for me. Beginning to get excited - I went ahead and popped into the Add /Remove applications area to see what googies I could add - but on opening this aaplication - the system froze completely. After about 15 seconds I could start to move my mouse again, but nothing else would work. I rebooted and tried the same thing - and the same thing happened. NExt I rebooted and tried out the synaptic package manager - which resulted in the same freezing. Also the new firefox addons manager resulted in the system freezing and locking up again. Finally (after a few google searches) I found a list of repositories, and tried via apt-get - whcih worked. But as I don't know the names of all packages and dependencies I want - this aint too good :( So - has anyone else encountered this - or does it sound like I may have a hardware fault? It's driving me nuts. I really want to ditch Windows for good, but only if it's gonna work! Cheers, Badger. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 000782-3, 19/10/2007 Tested on: 19/10/2007 16:24:51 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2007 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
