<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Vincent <blockquote cite="mid:1221126792.5685.46.camel@vincent-desktop" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have recently installed hardy on my computer running a duel boot system with xp pro - Previously had installed feisty with which I was very happy until it crashed, not allowing me into ubuntu or windows. The IT people I normally deal with knew nothing about how to repair Linux with the result that they formatted my hard drive & reloaded windows, losing all files - Yes I know - BACKUP!! </pre> </blockquote> The quickest way to backup your files before a reformat is to boot from the LiveCD and save everything from there. No need to lose your files and I really think IT techs should have more respect for peoples files and do more to help. Data recovery is not that difficult. <blockquote cite="mid:1221126792.5685.46.camel@vincent-desktop" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">My problem now is extreme nervousness as hardy seems to have a number of bugs in it as follows: 1. Wont turn off or shut down computer, the screen just goes blank but keeps running - The off button on the tower is non-responsive & the only way to turn off is to press the reboot button which works, then go into windows & turn off. </pre> </blockquote> Another way of forcing the computer to shut down is "sudo init 0" but you should check in the log files to see if there is any reason why this is happening. <blockquote cite="mid:1221126792.5685.46.camel@vincent-desktop" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2. Doesn't recognise my monitor or windows graphics card & wouldn't install in normal mode - Just blanked the screen. I could only install in safe graphics mode on 800x600 resolution - feisty had no problems in this & ran in 1024x768. The card is a S3 Graphics Pro-Savage DDR windows type. </pre> </blockquote> The quickest way to sort graphics out is to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and look for: Section "Device"         Identifier      "Configured Video Device" EndSection Change it to: Section "Device"         Identifier      "Configured Video Device"         Driver           "Vesa" EndSection The Vesa driver works on almost all graphics cards as far as I know but it does not support 3D, but at least you will have graphics. <blockquote cite="mid:1221126792.5685.46.camel@vincent-desktop" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">3. Evolution wont open multiple page faxes, only shows me the first page. The faxes download in .TIFF I have sent this problem to evolution & they came back after testing my fax which I sent to them, saying the problem appears to lay with the eye of gnome program & to report it to you. My options on this one at present are to open in gimp & print page by page, or to save to a flash drive & open in windows - Something I'm finding a tad time wasting. </pre> </blockquote> Most Fax2Email programs can be configured to send you pdf's instead of tiff. Changing you mail clients won't help either because it does not actually open the tiff. Google around to see what image viewers support tiff in Linux. <blockquote cite="mid:1221126792.5685.46.camel@vincent-desktop" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The printing(fonts)on these faxes are so small as to be almost unreadable, but prints out fine in windows - I've tried everything to change the font size but no joy. </pre> </blockquote> Hmm.. No brainwaves here. Maybe convert it to pdf and then print it? <blockquote cite="mid:1221126792.5685.46.camel@vincent-desktop" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">4. I'm not sure if this one is an evo or ubuntu problem, but while composing an email, ubuntu turned off by itself, in exactly the same way as if I'd selected shut down - Blank screen, computer still running & having to reboot at the tower - Evo fortunately recovered my work after restart - Evolution ver. 2.22.1 is installed in hardy. </pre> </blockquote> Install Thunderbird and see if it still happens. If so then I'd say it's something in Ubuntu. Once again there should be info in the log files about this. A lots of things seems to show up in /home/<user>/.xsession-errors as well. Maybe it's worth a peek. <blockquote cite="mid:1221126792.5685.46.camel@vincent-desktop" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I haven't downloaded any updates as yet for either ubuntu or evolution. Please folks, if anyone can help with my hassles I'd be really grateful as I enjoy using ubuntu, it's got a great "feel" about it & in my opinion, is a quicker more enjoyable system than windows to use. Regards Vince </pre> </blockquote> I haven't used Windows in the past 18 months and I've never been happier. I'm using Kubuntu though. Hope you get all the problems sorted soon. Regards Hannes </body> </html>