10.04 LTS system locking when viewing Flash content

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 00:23 -0500, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 13:06 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:57 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> 
> > You did not mention what graphics chip and driver you are using. For it 
> > to take out the computer and leave you with a gray and white screen is 
> > almost certainly driver related.
> 
> Sorry about that too. I suck at asking for help apparently lol.
> The laptop is an Acer 5100 with an ATI Radeon XPress 1100.  To be
> honest, I'm not really sure what drivers I'm using. I know I enabled
> restricted software so I assume I'm using either an official ATI driver
> or whatever came with Ubuntu.

You used system/hardware drivers to set it up? Is the little green light
lit up showing it's installed and working? I've learned, in my dottage
to not install said drivers directly, but to use the system app to do
it. The nvidia dot-run file will put lib things into a different
directory schema than will the Ubuntu hardware drivers app, and Ubuntu
expects them to be set up using hardware-drivers. Beats me what the deal
is, but doing it the Ubuntu way saves me the heartbreak. Ric


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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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