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Dodeca
February 20th, 2013, 05:02 AM
Hello all ...

My "new" pc is a dell precision T4300.

I have made it into a dual boot 10.04 and 12.04 ( currently running on 10.04)

And 10.04 works perfect !!!

12.04 ( fresh install and no errors ) will boot past grub and my login ... but then all the icon launchers on the left are missing ... just an orange strip top to bottom and when you move the mouse over the area ... they are THERE !

So I can launch apps but it seems the GUI crashes and start giving me error text messages

here is the results of lshw



xxx-desktop
description: Tower Computer
product: Precision WorkStation T3400
vendor: Dell Inc.
serial: 8G2LCF1
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 vsyscall64 vsyscall32
configuration: administrator_password=enabled boot=normal chassis=tower power-on_password=enabled uuid=44454C4C-4700-1032-804C-B8C04F434631
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 0TP412
vendor: Dell Inc.
physical id: 0
serial: ..CN708217BF504L.
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Dell Inc.
physical id: 0
version: A09 (06/04/2009)
size: 64KiB
capacity: 960KiB
capabilities: pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd int13floppytoshiba int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification netboot
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 400
bus info: cpu@0
slot: CPU
size: 2333MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 1333MHz
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 700
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities: internal write-back data
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 701
size: 4MiB
capacity: 4MiB
capabilities: internal varies unified
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1000
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 4GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
product: NT1GT64U8HB0BY-3C
vendor: 7F7F7F0B00000000
physical id: 0
serial: 377A1B45
slot: DIMM_1
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
*-bank:1
description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
product: HYMP512U64CP8-Y5
vendor: AD00000000000000
physical id: 1
serial: 04004057
slot: DIMM_3
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
*-bank:2
description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
product: NT1GT64U8HB0BY-3C
vendor: 7F7F7F0B00000000
physical id: 2
serial: 137A1B41
slot: DIMM_2
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
*-bank:3
description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
product: KCM633-ELC
vendor: 7F98000000000000
physical id: 3
serial: 9E2E4FCE
slot: DIMM_4
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: 82X38/X48 Express DRAM Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=x38_edac
resources: irq:0
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: 82X38/X48 Express Host-Primary PCI Express Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:24 memory:fb000000-fdefffff ioport:d0000000(size=268435456)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NV38GL [Quadro FX 1300]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:fc000000-fcffffff memory:fde00000-fde1ffff(prefetchable)
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: 82X38/X48 Express Host-Secondary PCI Express Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:25
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1a
bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:16 ioport:ff20(size=32)
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1a.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:ff00(size=32)
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1a.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.2
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:22 ioport:ecc0(size=32)
*-usb:3
description: USB Controller
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1a.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.7
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:22 memory:fdffbc00-fdffbfff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:fdffc000-fdffffff
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:26 ioport:1000(size=4096) memory:faf00000-faffffff memory:f0000000-f01fffff(prefetchable)
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.5
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:27 ioport:2000(size=4096) memory:fae00000-faefffff memory:f0200000-f03fffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:1d:09:23:bf:8a
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.102 duplex=full firmware=5754-v3.24 ip=192.168.1.102 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:29 memory:faef0000-faefffff
*-usb:4
description: USB Controller
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:23 ioport:ff80(size=32)
*-usb:5
description: USB Controller
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:ff60(size=32)
*-usb:6
description: USB Controller
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:ff40(size=32)
*-usb:7
description: USB Controller
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:23 memory:ff980800-ff980bff
*-pci:4
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: 92
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-storage
description: SATA controller
product: 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
logical name: scsi0
logical name: scsi1
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage msi pm bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
resources: irq:28 ioport:fe00(size=8) ioport:fe10(size=4) ioport:fe20(size=8) ioport:fe30(size=4) ioport:fec0(size=32) memory:ff970000-ff9707ff
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: Hitachi HDS72101
vendor: Hitachi
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: GKAO
serial: GTE000PAGE515E
size: 931GiB (1TB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=0001cd4e
*-volume:0
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
version: 1.0
serial: ac2352b7-7686-4d22-8585-6dad4e3b8165
size: 471GiB
capacity: 471GiB
capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2013-02-19 16:48:50 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/nt/migrationassistant8]�����L#�c(]�������d���@�Oψ�� modified=2013-02-19 17:24:38 mounted=2013-02-19 19:33:18 state=clean
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
size: 460GiB
capacity: 460GiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume:0
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
capacity: 4028MiB
capabilities: nofs
*-logicalvolume:1
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 6
logical name: /dev/sda6
logical name: /
capacity: 445GiB
configuration: mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered state=mounted
*-logicalvolume:2
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 7
logical name: /dev/sda7
capacity: 11GiB
capabilities: nofs
*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: DVD-RW DVR-215D
vendor: PIONEER
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 1.13
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:fdffbb00-fdffbbff ioport:ece0(size=32)
*-scsi
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:3
logical name: scsi6
capabilities: emulated scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
size: 7633MiB (8004MB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
*-volume
description: Windows FAT volume
vendor: SYSLINUX
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdb1
logical name: /media/D012-91C4
version: FAT32
serial: d012-91c4
size: 7633MiB
capacity: 7633MiB
capabilities: primary bootable fat initialized
configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat mount.fstype=vfat mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gi d=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,iochar set=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro state=mounted



thanks

kagashe
February 20th, 2013, 05:16 AM
Hi,

Ubuntu 12.04 has two versions now with different Kernels and Xorg.

If you have downloaded recently it would be Ubuntu 12.04.2 and if it is original it would be 12.04.

If it is Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.04.1 you can try 12.04.2 and vice versa.

Kamalakar

Dodeca
February 21st, 2013, 09:14 AM
I have solved the problem by installing LINUX MINT.

Thanks 4 trying.

Dodeca