install woes

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:42:39 +0100, whoosh wrote:

> I have an AMD64 Sempron tower system from about 2006.
> 
> 
> if I install Ubuntu 8.04.1 desktop 64 bit, that freezes up
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> when the mouse pointer appears.
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> if I install Ubuntu 7.10 desktop 64 bit that freezes up when the
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> desktop appears.
> 

I have a laptop with AMD Sempron which had simular problems. I only used 
32 bit, never tried 64 bit. With 32 bit it now works perfect if started 
with the option "nolapic". With 7.04 it worked ok without that option, 
the problems started after that.

Aart