[ubuntu-uk] 12.10 Teething Troubles

[Colin Law]

On 8 January 2013 09:54, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Could be
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1072531
or
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1046118

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Colin