Ubuntu 7.10; a couple of problems

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited April 2008 in Science & Tech
Ever since I installed Ubuntu it takes about 5+ minutes to boot. It goes through the Grub thing then just has a black screen for 5 minutes till it finally boots up. Dunno what you guys need to help me on this, but I have reinstalled the OS with the same problem.

That was pretty much the only issue I had other than some random hangups and video issues, but last night I let it run on the battery till it died figuring it would auto shutdown or something(I usually keep it plugged in but was away for a bit). So when it booted up(which took over 10 minutes that time) I lost wireless. It's like the wireless turned off, but I have toggled the physical wireless button as well as the combo keys Fn+F2 which is the secondary method to no avail.

The software seems to think it's on but it sees no networks in range.

On a side note I do love this OS, but the video playback stutters a lot in Totem, so I got VLC and it does it less but still happens more than I like. CPU monitor shows that it's running 2GHz instead of scaling back to 800MHz when the video plays so it seems the CPU is at least trying.

Comments

  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    What are your hardware specs?

    -drasnor :fold:
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited April 2008
    Sounds like it's having an incompatibility issue with your video card which would cause the boot issues if it's having a hard time to detect acceptable video modes. I know a few earlier versions of linux had issue with scaling down the clock speeds. But that as far as I know has been fixed in all newer kernels. My guess is that it's using software rendering to process your video and not the video card's hardware rendering which would cause the load speed you are seeing on your CPU.

    Need to find the right drivers for that card of yours.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    I figured out the issue on the bootup, or well someone else did I dunno what the problem was but it was a common issue apparently. However my wireless is still AWOL, it would work if I could boot into windows and turn on the radio but it's not installed. I know this because I've done it in the past when I had this same issue. Naturally every topic I find on this subject is either for a specific laptop, or the topic dead ends before anything is accomplished. Been at the ubuntu forums all day looking and looking.
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