it will not load. it hangs during boot.... on the first 'artistic' page. and
now I can't find the cd they sent me! This has happened with both this
edition and the one I downloaded (the splash screen was that of what
appeared to be a bird... is that the heron one?).
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Lisa Kachold <
lisakachold@obnosis.com>wrote:
> What are the errors? Where are you hanging?
>
> When you boot into any Linux - you can start with nofb (no framebuffer) or
> nopcmcia or noacpi.
>
> Did you try booting into safe mode?
>
> Take your machine name and go to Ubuntu forums - search for others who had
> your issues.
>
> Once you complete the installation, you can formalize your startup options
> as default passed to grub (or lilo).
>
> If this is just a VESA Video card X11 issue, that's going to be solved in a
> similar manner.
>
> Linux is like a good partner - it WILL tell you very clearly what it's
> problem is. Boot into single user mode and check the logs!
>
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> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:19:10 -0500
> From: bmike1@gmail.com
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: ubuntu 8.x woes
>
>
> uubuntu won't even load onto my machine
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Stu <wien33@cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 23:59 -0700, jdawg wrote:
> > I have notice more with v3, that I find my system "freezing" up, when a
> > page doesn't load.
> > Most of the time it is ok, but sometimes it becomes excruciatingly slow
> > to click on any other app, or trying to cancel firefox.
> > When firefox is eventually cancelled, the system goes back to normal.
> >
> > I am running firefox now using this command.
> > nice -n +4 firefox, which seems to help.
> >
> > I wanted to know if anyone else has experience extreme slow-downs
> > because of firefox 3.
> >
> > Jerry
>
> For the past week or so, I've been running Firefox 3.0.4 on Ubuntu
> 8.10,(HP laptop ze4400us) and haven't run into anything bad yet. In
> fact, I have to say this is the first install of Ubuntu I have done that
> I actually *like*! In the past, I've usually run Mepis, PClinux, or
> Vector, and had a few issues with Firefox acting odd especially after
> surfing Youtube, but this one seems happy enough, even with compiz
> running in cube mode.
> >
>
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