I bought my wife a new laptop and am planning to pass the old Dell down to my middle-school-age granddaughter. The machine has WinXP and had Kubuntu Gutsy until I just installed Hardy in the former's reformatted partition.
Things are working pretty good, except when it's time to quit. For example, if you choose the Restart option, the shutdown process goes to where it says "Will now restart." Instead of restarting, it just hangs at that point. Use of the "Turn computer off" option goes similarly to "Will now halt," where it hangs. The computer can only be turned off by holding in the power button a long time. I could put up with that nuisance, but I can't ask her to do so. Is there a fix for this?
I haven't spent hours with forum and wiki searches about this issue, and I guess I could be flamed for that failure. I seldom have good results with such searches, and I currently don't have the time to give. It will take all the time I have to set up the system with various customizations to make it a useful system.
I sure hope I'm not going to have to give her an XP system!
Lane
Things are working pretty good, except when it's time to quit. For example, if you choose the Restart option, the shutdown process goes to where it says "Will now restart." Instead of restarting, it just hangs at that point. Use of the "Turn computer off" option goes similarly to "Will now halt," where it hangs. The computer can only be turned off by holding in the power button a long time. I could put up with that nuisance, but I can't ask her to do so. Is there a fix for this?
I haven't spent hours with forum and wiki searches about this issue, and I guess I could be flamed for that failure. I seldom have good results with such searches, and I currently don't have the time to give. It will take all the time I have to set up the system with various customizations to make it a useful system.
I sure hope I'm not going to have to give her an XP system!
Lane
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