Hardy Herron probs?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- 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)
> 
Hello Winton,
I've had problems with Nvidia drivers also especially
with low res graphics.  You might get better
diagnostics from the list if you were to post your
xorg.config, xorg.conf and your graphic card details
or perhaps just rebooting in recovery mode and running
Xfix, the 4th entry to select. Let it run to
completion and then reboot.
Currently, I'm just using xorg.config with the
"nvidia-glx-new-envy" driver and have renamed my
xorg.conf so it doesn't interfere.  Did this
experimenting and it seems to work without problem.
However, this only addressed your large screen(low res
graphich) issue and probably wouldn't have anything to
do with your DVD issue.
You also appear to be having several issues and
perhaps warrants seperate posts on them.  Good luck.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net