[ale] help with hung dell after karmic install

[JK]

One thing you might try as a temporary fix is to replace the
installed /etc/X11/xorg.conf with /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe,
which uses the VESA framebuffer driver. Video performance will
probably be stable but slow. This worked for me after Karmic
hosed my X configuration completely.

-- JK


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). 
> 
> So I'm thinking it's a video problem but I don't know how to begin
> isolating or fixing this. I've captured the logs and ls* output from the
> pre-crash state. Any suggestions?
> 
> Two other anomalies which may/may not factor in:
> 
> 1) The grub menu frequently doesn't appear but sometimes it does. This
> the only OS on the disk. I did check the disk for defects before
> installing: no errors found.
> 
> 2) Kernel complains of missing firmware for the wireless net device.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
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