leiftheviking
June 19th, 2008, 09:33 PM
I have an HP Pavilion dv8000 laptop with an AMD Turion 64 processor and ATI Graphics. About a month ago I was studying abroad and had been using an install of 8.04 for about a month without any problems to speak of.
I turned on my computer, and logged in, and there was no taskbar. I called a friend who is an IT specialist and runs several distros of Linux and we spent an hour trying to figure it out.
To remedy the problem I had to reinstall XP, I had luckily brought my install disk with me in case something went wrong while I was away from home.
Upon returning home I reinstalled Ubuntu...and on my first login after installing all of the package updates, etc, the taskbar was GONE yet again.
I love using Ubuntu and am reluctantly running Vista on the machine right now. While it's been running very well, I plan on getting a new 320gb HD and some more RAM in the next month or so, so I will be dual booting with Vista and (I hope) Ubuntu.
Please help! Is this a common problem with AMD or HP laptops? Did the updates kill something in GNOME? Thank you for any guidance on this!
I turned on my computer, and logged in, and there was no taskbar. I called a friend who is an IT specialist and runs several distros of Linux and we spent an hour trying to figure it out.
To remedy the problem I had to reinstall XP, I had luckily brought my install disk with me in case something went wrong while I was away from home.
Upon returning home I reinstalled Ubuntu...and on my first login after installing all of the package updates, etc, the taskbar was GONE yet again.
I love using Ubuntu and am reluctantly running Vista on the machine right now. While it's been running very well, I plan on getting a new 320gb HD and some more RAM in the next month or so, so I will be dual booting with Vista and (I hope) Ubuntu.
Please help! Is this a common problem with AMD or HP laptops? Did the updates kill something in GNOME? Thank you for any guidance on this!