[xubuntu-users] Problems after updating 14.04

[Ralf ranfyy]

Am 22.09.2014 22:19 schrieb "David Walland" <davidwalland at googlemail.com>:
>
> Dear Hartmut and the List,
>
> I can't get screen lock or break to work, with or without the function
key.  Where do I find /var/log/dmesg?

Either run:
dmesg | less

or:
less /var/log/messages

I've spent ages looking for it without success.  This was what I was
meaning when I asked for people to spell things out.  I'm sure it's obvious
when once you know.  The problem is - I don't!
>
> Regards,
>
> David Walland
>
> On 21 September 2014 13:40, David Walland <davidwalland at googlemail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> Yeah,  I've been contemplating doing the same thing, but it worked for
several days *after* the update and only disappeared suddenly after
updating!  Very annoying!  You'd think it would be worth Broadcom's while
to sort this out properly, wouldn't you?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 21 September 2014 12:05, Lutz Andersohn <landersohn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I also had HUGE problems with broadcom in 14.04 after I got it to work
>>> with some pain in 12.04. I gave up after a few days of fiddling and
>>> bought a Centrino based card from Intel which worked right out of the
>>> box. Cost me 10 bucks and 15 min swapping the card. I had better things
>>> to do and spending 10 bucks was worth my time.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/20/2014 11:34 AM, David Walland wrote:
>>> > I have been running Xubuntu 12.04 successfully for nearly a year on my
>>> > old Dell Latitude D620.  This sports 2 GB memory and a 100GB SSD.
>>> > Recently I decided to update to 14.04.  Everything went well and for
>>> > some weeks the machine and 14.04 have behaved impeccably, until I ran
>>> > a normal set of updates.
>>> > I have a Broadcom 4311 wifi card on the machine and had managed to
>>> > make it work following information from the Internet on how to do so.
>>> > After this update, suddenly the wifi will no longer work and all of
>>> > the instructions to sort it in 14.04, I can find on the internet fail
>>> > to work, including the "official" Ubuntu instructions.  On startup,
>>> > just after starting the machine and before the desktop comes up it
>>> > flashes for about 1 second information which is about the problem
>>> > (well it says "Broadcom" but it's gone too quickly for me to read much
>>> > more).
>>> >
>>> > How do I hold this screen long enough to read what it says?
>>> >
>>> > How do I sort out the driver so it works given that every set of
>>> > instructions I've tried have failed?
>>> >
>>> > Also since the same update I now have a small black rectangle on my
>>> > desktop all the time.  It wasn't there before and I can't find any
>>> > info on the Internet about how to deal with it.  When starting, the
>>> > desktop loads correctly until I enter my password to go into my own
>>> > area when the black area reappears and is always on top.  It's about 8
>>> > mm from the LH edge and about 2.5 cm down from the screen top.
>>> >
>>> > Will I have to reset swappiness and the other settings I set up in
>>> > 12.04 to speed it up and to protect the SSD?  It's noticeably slower
>>> > in 14.04.
>>> >
>>> > I'm a fairly new boy at Linux so please treat me gently and explain
>>> > all those esoteric steps which all Linux non-newbies know and I
>>> > probably won't - I'm still following instructions mostly by rote.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in anticipation,
>>> >
>>> > David Walland
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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