Updating to 15.04

[bmarsh at bmarsh.com]

Got something for you to try that will:

1) prove whether your graphics card is the problem.

2) may be your final solution to the problem.

Get yourself to a 15.04. Terminal session....   And then:

Sudo apt-get install xfce4

Reboot and when you get to the initial login screen, use the pull-down menu to select an XFCE session instead of Plasma.   Then complete the login.

XFCE is a much less graphic intensive window manager and doesn't have all the glitz (and cost) of Plasma.  I like it and I think you will too.

Good luck!



> On Apr 5, 2015, at 8:57 PM, Richard Barmann <reb68 at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 04/05/2015 11:48 AM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>> On 04/05/2015 01:42 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>>>> On 04/04/2015 02:49 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>>> I don't know "hwinfo" but how about "lshw"? OTOH I don't know if
>>>>> that is also removed from 15.04 (I'm still using 14.04).
>>>> That's one I didn't know about...(lshw)  and it is in 15.04. Pretty
>>>> good except that 'hwinfo'  was able to output specific devices if
>>>> asked   (gfx, disk, memory), which cut down on the info.
>>> sudo lshw -c display
>>> sudo lshw -c disk
>>> sudo lshw -c memory
>>> sudo lshw -c network
>>> 
>>> ... :)
>> Thanks for this....
>> 
>> ichard at richard-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -c display
>>  *-display
>>       description: VGA compatible controller
>>       product: NV44A [GeForce 6200]
>>       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
>>       physical id: 0
>>       bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
>>       version: a1
>>       width: 32 bits
>>       clock: 66MHz
>>       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
>>       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=32 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
>>       resources: irq:16 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:c0000000-dfffffff memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:fc000000-fc01ffff
>> richard at richard-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -c disk
>>  *-disk:0
>>       description: ATA Disk
>>       product: MAXTOR STM316081
>>       vendor: Maxtor
>>       physical id: 0.0.0
>>       bus info: scsi at 2:0.0.0
>>       logical name: /dev/sda
>>       version: 3.AA