I just upgraded my Maverick to Natty 3 days ago. It's fun and good. I try to be familiar with Unity, but the Natty constantly freezes suddenly. I try another alternative, I use Ubuntu Classic instead of Unity, and at the end my computer continues freezing suddenly and it made me really angry, I can't do anything except of force my computer to shut down through the power button. My laptop is Compaq CQ20 windows & 32bit
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do you have any propietary drivers installed?– Uri HerreraMay 4, 2011 at 4:57
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of course, I already installed the drivers through "Additional Driver" at system menu– ok compMay 4, 2011 at 5:01
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most likely is that, are they nvidia or ati? uninstall them and keep the nouveou or radeonHD drivers a.k.a the open source one's– Uri HerreraMay 4, 2011 at 5:03
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i only have integrated graphic card.– ok compMay 4, 2011 at 5:38
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intel integrated graphics? 'cause there's amd too...– Uri HerreraMay 4, 2011 at 5:57
3 Answers
Add this to your repositories.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu natty main #xorg-edgers PPA
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates natty main #xorg-edgers PPA
or in the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
or Open the Software Sources menu by going to Applications->Ubuntu Software Center, then selecting Edit->Software Sources. Choose the Other Software tab and click Add.
ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
and then
sudo apt-get update
see if it helps.
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1You advise a supposedly non-guru user to upgrade to non-default X ? I wouldn't recommend that. May 4, 2011 at 8:22
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it's not that hard.. clicking the ubuntu logo, and go to software sources and add the ppa.. it's pretty straight forward? May 4, 2011 at 8:27
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and why not? the present state the drivers he's using are causing that if he updates them he's most likely to get it fixed. May 4, 2011 at 8:36
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1Xorg-edgers is not for the faint of heart - it's populated with automated builds of upstream development. There's no guarantee those packages will work at all.– RAOFMay 4, 2011 at 9:16
Besides Uri answer try this too: enable proposed updates in Software Sources, and update your system to 2.6.38-9 kernel. Maybe this helps.
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thanks for your feedbacks, but I get confused of too many answers given, can you give me the straight forward answer?– ok compMay 6, 2011 at 3:29
I have an HP MINI 210 and it freezes like yours, my issue? the wireless card!
the solution: blacklisting the following drivers:
blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800lib
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00lib
(this should be appended to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf)
then restart and it should be working if this is your issue!
if this doesn't work, don't forget to remove those lines from the file.
good luck!