Hardy Herron probs?

[Dustin Breese]

The "dark gray" means the app is not responding temporarily.

I have nVidia Quadro FX 1500m.  I had SIMILAR issues (lock ups, jerky
video/screen refreshes, etc) until I enabled the Restricted Driver
(System->Administration->Hardware Drivers).  It didn't take 100% of
the time, so reboot and double check it.  Also, after upgrading to a
new kernel, it appears that it sometimes loses the setting, so check
it after a kernel upgrade.

Also, firefox dropping to offline mode makes me think perhaps you also
have a networking issue?  Can you see any clues via "dmesg" or
/var/logs?

-dustin

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:08 AM, squareyes <squareyes at internode.on.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> On Sunday last thunderbird started bringing in emails with incorrect
> senders, no headers and
> completely empty bodies. I checked with my ISP who had no issues, all
> these emails were still
> on their server in complete condition. I had been running 7.04 and
> decided maybe it was time to move up to
> Hardy Heron. I installed from CD with no problems, but now I have a few.
>
> Before I did the fresh install, I copied everything I wanted to save to
> 4 dvd's, I have 2 dvd combo drives both LG,
> that up to now haven't given any problems, but now after the Hardy
> install, neither drive will read any of these
> Dvd's. All can be accessed from an old dvd combo drive on an XP machine
> so it appears to have written them OK.
>
> Firefox is behaving very strangely, losing all colour at random , and
> gradually going very dark grey, almost like
> machine going into power save, sometimes after only a few minutes.
> Firefox randomly resets itself to "offline mode" some sites open in a
> highly magnified state, 5mm letter now up to 25mm.
> where all controls are off screen, and with the mouse button held down
> can  move the page around to get to the tool bar
> Have had to Ctrl Alt Delete and restart X, which itself opens the
> Desktop also in a highly magnified state. Click on Desktop  few times
> usually restores to original size
>
> DeVeDe is outputting iso files that when burnt to image on this box with
> either DVD drive result in an extremely jerky video, and are not
> recognised by my DVD player. Have tried transfering ISO to the windows
> box, but writing software  (nero)will not recognise the ISO.
>
> One consolation,  Thunderbird now working fine :-)
>
> Could I be having some major hardware problems, am on dialup, so don't
> fancy re-installing 7.04 and going through the
> necessary hours re-installing software I use, if I don't have too.
> I have installed 8.04 on 3 other machines using this CD. All working fine.
>
> Machine
> 3.8 dual core Athlon
> 2gig ram
> 256 gig hard drive
> 256 meg nvidia video.(using the "new" nvidia driver)
> Screen Resolution  1280X1024
>
> Many thanks in advance
> Take Care
> Winton
>
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