SDL
November 25th, 2008, 07:54 PM
Hi.
I've just uninstalled Hardy and installed Intrepid. Now I cannot get past the login screen when the PC boots.
To complicate matters, Intrepid was working after running
sudo-upgrade from Hardy but I wanted to clean out my junk so I installed Intrepid from disk over my Hardy install. Also the live CD was working - I don't know if it still does but I assume it is. Windows XP which is on a different partition of the same HDD is working fine.
Ever since I've been using Ubuntu - I think that I've used the five most recent versions - I have had to boot with the line
acpi=off. If I don't boot with this, my PC freezes just before the login screen - this is true of Intrepid too.
The new problem is that I get to the login screen and I cannot move the mouse or enter any keystrokes but the cursor continues to flash in the 'login' box. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can resolve this problem please?
My initial thoughts are that the PC is either hanging at the login screen or perhaps there is some problem with the mouse and keyboard setup in my Intrepid install?
Thanks for your ideas.
Stephen.
I've just uninstalled Hardy and installed Intrepid. Now I cannot get past the login screen when the PC boots.
To complicate matters, Intrepid was working after running
sudo-upgrade from Hardy but I wanted to clean out my junk so I installed Intrepid from disk over my Hardy install. Also the live CD was working - I don't know if it still does but I assume it is. Windows XP which is on a different partition of the same HDD is working fine.
Ever since I've been using Ubuntu - I think that I've used the five most recent versions - I have had to boot with the line
acpi=off. If I don't boot with this, my PC freezes just before the login screen - this is true of Intrepid too.
The new problem is that I get to the login screen and I cannot move the mouse or enter any keystrokes but the cursor continues to flash in the 'login' box. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can resolve this problem please?
My initial thoughts are that the PC is either hanging at the login screen or perhaps there is some problem with the mouse and keyboard setup in my Intrepid install?
Thanks for your ideas.
Stephen.