no sound, slow system and non-working touchpad after upgrading to karmic

[rusma]

Hi. Today Iæve upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 karmic, but it really gave me more problems than I had already:

1. My sound is not working at all
2. the system in general is very slow, why is this?
3. my touchpad is not working (I'm on a laptop)

Hope to get good answers this time.

[danielshewchuk]

I also have no sound. My touch pad works. I also hope to get answers. I never seem to get the help i need here

[samasat]

For mee too .... Main issue is touchpad stopped working ! ... totally helpless now.

I guess touchpad issue may be system depepndent.

Regarding sound, someone posted some suggestions in other threads in same forum.

I can't do anything however ... waiting for touchpad issue solved.

-samasat

[Andybr2000]

Same problem with my computer:
System slow
Upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 Karmic
Kernel Linux 2.6.27-9-generic
GNOME 2.28.1
Dell laptop E1505
Memory: 2.5GiB
Processor 0: Intel T2300 @ 1.66GHz 25%
Processor 1: Intel T2300 @ 1.66GHz 100%
Available disk space: 8.5GiB

Process Name usplash 100%
I killed the usplash process, but now the Xorg is 89% if I move any window.
system did not find the sound card
No mouse touch pad
I cannot change display visual effects or use compiz

[Sudo Sumo]

Same problem with my computer:
System slow
Upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 Karmic
Kernel Linux 2.6.27-9-generic
GNOME 2.28.1
Dell laptop E1505
Memory: 2.5GiB
Processor 0: Intel T2300 @ 1.66GHz 25%
Processor 1: Intel T2300 @ 1.66GHz 100%
Available disk space: 8.5GiB

Process Name usplash 100%
I killed the usplash process, but now the Xorg is 89% if I move any window.
system did not find the sound card
No mouse touch pad
I cannot change display visual effects or use compiz

Same here! Although I don't use my touchpad (disabled in BIOS ... palms always drag and it's annoying), my sound is gone and browsing is INSANELY slow.

Usplash was the #1 offender, killed it, stuck with XOrg. Looked at xorg.conf, generic settings, running

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

does nothing ... that is to say, I've run it before to adjust my settings, but this time it just returns a cursor.

I've got a Thinkpad T61 with an Intel GM965/GL960.

Problems seem to occur when I attempt to switch pages in Firefox or open a full screened application.

Help!

[balak]

rusma, samasat:

check if this helps you:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308857

[samasat]

Thanks Balak.

I found your HOW TO posting useful. I can use the touchpad now and I am really booting using Upgraded Ubuntu unlike earlier where I was still in Ubuntu 2.6.28-11 kernel.

However, the wireless internet is turned OFF and I am not able to turn it back ON using the keyboard touch key. (OTHER touchkeys for sound etc are working)

-samasat

[mherman]

When I upgraded to 9.10, neither my touchpad nor sound were working. I did this, which seemed to work:

sudo apt-get install grub2

After installing grub2, and rebooting, the newest kernel was available. I chose that one, and the touchpad and sound work now.

Toshiba Satellite M305-S4920

[samasat]

mherman's suggestion could be useful if someone has internet connection ... may not be possible for people like me who are still strugglling to get wireless working :(

[TheForumTroll]

Maybe this will help (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8218261#post8218261).