gwill83419
December 27th, 2013, 05:52 PM
Happy Christmas and west wishes for the new year.
I cannot upgrade beyond 12.04 which probably accounts for the webcam not working (and yes, I have switched it on) and the wired LAN also not working. The wireless networking is fine. Unity Desktop seems ok. When I tested GNOME Desktop it only works in 2D mode.
Hardware: Pc Specalist SkyFire Series (G52-17632X4-CB8) 17.3" laptop, i7, HyperX SSD, 16Gig Ram, GTX 770m.
1) Reseting the Bios boot to Legacy and the boot order appropriatly.
With only the SSD drive installed the following observed:
2) Known working and tested Cds/DVDs of 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 will not boot to the Test or Install page. The screen going to Black before this point.
3) 12.04 will load (from Cd) immediatly. I can then upgrade to the latest version of 12.04. (Let me call it 12.04+)
4) Using the wireless connection to try and upgrade to 12.10 leaves me with a broken system.
Then adding a Hard Drive, pre installed with (13.04) from another computer and changing the Bios to boot only from the HD.
5) The system boots with this drive into 13.04 immediatly, though the Webcam and wired LAN still do not work but GNOME 3 works in 3D and Unity work fine.
Additional Notes:
I have added Bumblebee to 12.04+.
I have tried upgrading 12.04+ to the 3.10 Kernel with no change.
Adding the Gnome 3 Desktop to 12.04+ allows me to boot into GNOME in 2d only mode. Booting from the old HD (5 above) allows me to use gnome 3 in 3D mode?
Some guidance please.
I can give you lots of information about the system and outputs of lsusb ect but don't want to bore you at this early stage.
Graham.
I cannot upgrade beyond 12.04 which probably accounts for the webcam not working (and yes, I have switched it on) and the wired LAN also not working. The wireless networking is fine. Unity Desktop seems ok. When I tested GNOME Desktop it only works in 2D mode.
Hardware: Pc Specalist SkyFire Series (G52-17632X4-CB8) 17.3" laptop, i7, HyperX SSD, 16Gig Ram, GTX 770m.
1) Reseting the Bios boot to Legacy and the boot order appropriatly.
With only the SSD drive installed the following observed:
2) Known working and tested Cds/DVDs of 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 will not boot to the Test or Install page. The screen going to Black before this point.
3) 12.04 will load (from Cd) immediatly. I can then upgrade to the latest version of 12.04. (Let me call it 12.04+)
4) Using the wireless connection to try and upgrade to 12.10 leaves me with a broken system.
Then adding a Hard Drive, pre installed with (13.04) from another computer and changing the Bios to boot only from the HD.
5) The system boots with this drive into 13.04 immediatly, though the Webcam and wired LAN still do not work but GNOME 3 works in 3D and Unity work fine.
Additional Notes:
I have added Bumblebee to 12.04+.
I have tried upgrading 12.04+ to the 3.10 Kernel with no change.
Adding the Gnome 3 Desktop to 12.04+ allows me to boot into GNOME in 2d only mode. Booting from the old HD (5 above) allows me to use gnome 3 in 3D mode?
Some guidance please.
I can give you lots of information about the system and outputs of lsusb ect but don't want to bore you at this early stage.
Graham.