<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Stan,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 18:47, stan <<a href="mailto:stanb@panix.com">stanb@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have 18.04 on a couple of cheap laptops. This version does not work well<br>
with the wireless chipset, and audio on these machine, FYI 10.10 solves all<br></blockquote><div>Ralf has already handled that observation :)</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
these issues, BUT I don not want to go to it, as it will be easier to go to<br>
the next LTS FROM the previous LTS.<br>
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These machine take *forever* to boot to an X login. How can I configure to<br>
watch the boot sequence , so I can diagnose this issue?<br></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>Systemd can be your friend :)</div><div>Try this command to find out where the time goes whilst booting:-</div><div>systemd-analyze blame</div></div><div><br></div><div>And if that isn't sufficient, from my notes (be very careful with this!)...</div><div>As a matter of course, I always configure systems to show boot sequence information. </div><div>Using sudo to launch a text editor to edit the file /etc/default/grub <br></div><div>It would be a good idea to backup the file.<br></div><div>Go to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash quiet"<br></div><div>Remove the words splash and quiet from that line.</div><div>Save the file</div><div>Run sudo update-grub<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ian<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>