[ubuntu-uk] 12.10 Teething Troubles

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 08/01/13 09:45, Colin Law wrote:
> On 8 January 2013 08:10, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi - Now I have 12.10 running on this was-Windows machine, via the USB stick
>> booting method, I have one or two teething troubles with it. Generally one
>> or two restarts will sort them out, but not all of them. The main thing I'm
>> vexed by is that I can't prevent it from switching off the screen after ten
>> minutes inactive, even though I have put the settings in both the "Power"
>> and "Brightness and Lock" to never switch the screen off. Is there any third
>> control that could be doing this?
> You say it switches off after 10 mins, what happens if you set it (in Brightness and Lock) to 5 mins?  What if you set it to 1 hour? Have you got Lock Off in Brightness and Lock? Colin
Yup, I've tried all that; it's just stuck in 10 minute mode. Apart from 
that, there's nothing that's actually stuck, though quite a few things 
didn't work first time and needed reboots. Oh, and it can't configure 
Bluetooth on this machine (Compaq CQ58). Bluetooth just shows as 
"disabled" whether the hardware switch (f11) is on or off. I've never 
used Bluetooth and have no need for it, but I suspect this may be a 
common problem.