I upgraded to Lucid; I still had a list of kernels showing before I get to login; I tried several including 2.6.32-9-generic but those that went on to the desktop here is what happened: I could move the mouse around the screen until I hovered it over something that had a hint (or whatever it is called) that showed ... then it would freeze and have to be shut off. On the 64-bit, then, ... am I right in using ubuntu 64 for my computer? Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "Geir Ove Myhr" <gom...@gmail.com> To: <daves...@peak.org> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [Bug 500686] Re: [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:13 PM, daves111 wrote: > ok, I will test Lucid for you. Is there a chance that a problem is that > I don't have a real 64 bit amd? Nope, the name amd64 is there only for historical reasons. The platform was invented by AMD while Intel had another 64-bit architecture (lpia), but intel has since adopted AMDs platform. I must admit I was also confused by the name at first. On the other hand, it shouldn't be a problem to use i386 either, as amd64 is backwards compatible. I think i386 is currently recommended for desktop systems and amd64 for servers, but I'm no authority on this. If you feel that you have time and Lucid still freezes, you may try with xorg-edgers. That amounts to adding two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list and running `sudo apt-get dist-update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`. That gives you a bleeding edge ubuntu (with the most recent bug fixes, but also the most recent bugs). It is also a very useful datapoint to know if this freezes (unless Lucid without it does not). xorg-edgers is at https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa . Feel free to decline the last test if you think it sounds like it is too much for you. -- [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500686 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. -- [i945g] freezes shortly after loading desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500686 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
