c88
May 29th, 2016, 09:40 PM
Hello everyone,
I am pretty much brand new to Ubuntu, although I have played with it around a year ago on a dual boot laptop setup.
Anyway, I am trying to make the plunge to full time Linux, and I was installing a dual boot install with Windows 7.
The installation from the USB stick went pretty smoohly, but I initially had some issues with GNU Grub. It was super laggy and would actualky freeze up. I read around and found thst lowering the resolution to 640x480 would fix the problem and it definitely is improved although it still freezes in advanced options sometimes.
The main problem is when I try to login, the system shows just thhe desktop background and nothing else like icons or a top menu bar. There is a window flashing on and off saying that wifi networks are available. The cursor is very laggy and glitchy.
I am running a desktop machine with 32GB RAM, 250 GB SSD partition, ASRock motherboard with Haswell i5 running off the Intel integrated graphics.
I did try a number of things after searching for several hours, but most seem to suggest a graphics card driver problem with Nvidia drivers. Nothing mentions these problems with Intel integrated graphics, and I would think there would be straightaway support for it.
any help would be apprciated,
c88
I am pretty much brand new to Ubuntu, although I have played with it around a year ago on a dual boot laptop setup.
Anyway, I am trying to make the plunge to full time Linux, and I was installing a dual boot install with Windows 7.
The installation from the USB stick went pretty smoohly, but I initially had some issues with GNU Grub. It was super laggy and would actualky freeze up. I read around and found thst lowering the resolution to 640x480 would fix the problem and it definitely is improved although it still freezes in advanced options sometimes.
The main problem is when I try to login, the system shows just thhe desktop background and nothing else like icons or a top menu bar. There is a window flashing on and off saying that wifi networks are available. The cursor is very laggy and glitchy.
I am running a desktop machine with 32GB RAM, 250 GB SSD partition, ASRock motherboard with Haswell i5 running off the Intel integrated graphics.
I did try a number of things after searching for several hours, but most seem to suggest a graphics card driver problem with Nvidia drivers. Nothing mentions these problems with Intel integrated graphics, and I would think there would be straightaway support for it.
any help would be apprciated,
c88