Hi Kenneth I don't know about the Pannel icons, but if your desktop icons and windows dissapear, you can reload nautilus by typing alt+f2 and then "nautilus" without the commas. Think your problem is GNOME related though. Did you try logging off and back on without restarting? and what happens if you do restart? About the AMD's freezing, thanks, if I ever have the problem again, thast the first thing I'll check! John <a href="http://www.silver-sounds.com">www.silver-sounds.com</a> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Fermando, Scot & John/Anyone: My Acer Laptop lost its panel "applications"; "places"; "System"; "Shut Down" panel drop down. Nothing remains to restore. Right clicking does not pop up a shut down either; but right clicking does come up with options: "Create Folder, Create Folder, Create Document, Clean up Name, & Change Desktop Background." Can you mention a command that I may write into "terminal" which I can open from the desktop? What terminal fix will "reconstitute" or reconfigure the panel with the icon repopulated? I'd sure appreciate your guidance. [perhaps this resulted from a hyperactive keyboard, which I guess has something to do with a motherboard issue.] Kenneth On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Scott Lavender <<a href="mailto:scottalavender@gmail.com">scottalavender@gmail.com</a>>wrote: > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Roy Damen <<a href="mailto:roydamen@gmail.com">roydamen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > >> Dear John, >> >> On my machine i had a similar problem with rt. After more than 1,5 year of >> searching, trying out and lots of help with explanation on the ubuntuforums >> i discovered that it was this BIOS setting that must be turned off: IOAPIC >> It seems that ubuntu can manage this by itself(if i understood correctly) I >> bet this solves your problem too! >> >> 2010/5/7 jONE <<a href="mailto:producjohns@gmail.com">producjohns@gmail.com</a>> >> >>> Hi Fernando I've got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ processor too and had >>> problems with the RT kernel since I first installed 8.04 onwards. I tried >>> pretty much everything until a few days ago, when I simply "loaded optimized >>> settings" on my BIOS and believe it or not, no mouse delay and no hanging at >>> all. My hammerfall soundcard's delay <10ms recording 16channels. I honestly >>> don't know what setting in the BIOS messed it up since "optimized settings" >>> or "default settings" options don't specify much and I've tweaked the thing >>> so many times I lost track of what the original setting was! Maybe give that >>> a try? >>> Good luck! >>> >>> John >>> >> > I remember several years ago there were some problems with peoples systems > acting sluggish or freezing with the -rt kernel during Hardy. If I remember > correctly it had to do with acpi, although I cannot find any of those emails > on the mailing list. > > However, I did find a Ubuntu Studio review by Dave Phillips that also > mentions the acpi situation: > > <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/judgement-day-studio-dave-tests-ubuntu-studio-904" target="_blank">http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/judgement-day-studio-dave-tests-ubuntu-studio-904</a> > > Also, this 64Studio forum posts discusses it a little more: > <a href="http://www.64studio.com/node/1111" target="_blank">http://www.64studio.com/node/1111</a> > > Hope this helps. > > ScottL > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users</a> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/attachments/20100508/6e5ca0a4/attachment.htm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/attachments/20100508/6e5ca0a4/attachment.htm</a> ------------------------------ -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users</a> End of Ubuntu-Studio-users Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6 ************************************************** </blockquote></div> <div style="visibility: hidden; display: inline;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup"></div><style type="text/css">#avg_ls_inline_popup { position:absolute; z-index:9999; padding: 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 240px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 13px;}</style>