[ubuntu-uk] Increasing start up problems since upgrade to 10.04

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Bob Giles <thecorfiot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi gurus,
>
> I am running 32bit Lucid on a Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop with 4Gb ram.

If you have a 64-bit chip - which seems /extremely/ likely if the
machine takes 4GB - then assuming that you actually want to /use/ all
of your 4 gig, you should be running the 64-bit version. 32-bit PC OSs
can't access more than about 3¼-3½ gig of RAM; the rest is
inaccessible because the address space is occupied by the graphics
card & other devices.

> Following upgrading from the previous version I have had a few problems at
> startup. I will list them in the order which they manifested themselves. I
> am not suggesting that there is any connection between any of the 'symptoms'
> but who knows.
>
> 1. The first thing that I noticed was that before I get to the login splash
> screen that there was a considerable amount of 'noise' or 'interference' on
> a black screen. (This also occurs when shutting down. I have tried all of
> the three proprietary Nvidia drivers with no success. (I can live with this
> and didn't get too excited ... at first.)

All *three*? What 3 are these? Assuming your machine actually has an
nVidia graphics chipset, and you want the 3D support for Compiz, then
you should be running the latest version of the nVidia binary driver
that supports your chipset. The older, legacy versions are just there
for supporting older devices which no longer work with the latest
closed-source drivers.

[Thinks]

Ah, perhaps you mean the nVidia binary driver, "nouveau" and "nv"?
Well, Nouveau is getting there, I hear, but it doesn't do full 3D
acceleration yet, so unless you're ethically opposed to closed-source
code, you're better off with the binary one. I see no good reason at
all for running the nv driver if you have any alternative.

> 2. Recently, the system has been booting up and has loading a terminal
> window at start-up. The system is not configured to remember open programs
> when shutting down. I always close every running program at shutdown.

Check your startup programs and options.

> 3. Today, the machine has started booting up without displaying the splash
> screen and goes straight into my login without any password.

Again, check your startup programs and options. Have you got the
automatic-login option enabled? It's in the "login window" options.



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