e_tank wrote:
@tommyb:
i _really_ recommend you try getting support from within a linux chat room as well, such as ubuntu's or you can even join a smaller distro's chat room like arch's (i'm sure they'll still provide help). since you're new and your system is unfamiliar to you it will probably take a lot of back and forth communication for someone to help you find the causes.
for the slowness as ReKleSS pointed out it's probably due to not having hardware video acceleration. as your having problems connecting to ubuntu's package servers to dl the nvidia binary drivers i not sure how to fix that, someone familiar with ubuntu would have to help you there.
for the mouse it could be a bunch of things such as the mouse driver (could try using a generic one), usb driver (might have to set a parameter to pass to it), buggy bios (can work around by using specific kernel parameters or better yet look into updating your bios). a quick search for ubuntu+mouse+stops+working returns a lot of results showing people with the same problem but there doesn't seem to be a specific cause/fix for everyone.
I will do that, thank you ^_^
You guys have been a tremendous help though, so thanks. I'm gonna get this working eventually -_-
try Xubuntu
its Ubuntu running on Xfce, which is much lighter/faster than gnome (but still gtk2) and in the end it does pretty much everything gnome does.
That's what I have on my old althon 2100+ 512mb ram and its blazing fast.
I have a couple old DDR (I THINK?!) modules that were used with an AMD something from the FX-57 era.
They throw up errors now so Windows machines won't take them (the machine that was running them has replacement modules now).
Can somebody with a Linux box take these? I think it's 1 GB of RAM total (maybe 2).
If anybody is interested in picking up these, I'll check out the number on that and see about shipping this weekend (since I need to look into shipping something else, finally).
I have a couple old DDR (I THINK?!) modules that were used with an AMD something from the FX-57 era.
They throw up errors now so Windows machines won't take them (the machine that was running them has replacement modules now).
Can somebody with a Linux box take these? I think it's 1 GB of RAM total (maybe 2).
If anybody is interested in picking up these, I'll check out the number on that and see about shipping this weekend (since I need to look into shipping something else, finally).
Stormwatch wrote:Defective RAM is defective. Using it on another system won't change this.
Just b/c Windows says it's defective don't make it so. And... vice versa really. I had a turd stick of ram that went for 30 hours or so in memtest86 error free... yet I couldn't compile for more than 30 minutes.
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