12.04 (64-Bit) seemed to work perfectly well when loaded from DVD (i.e. the 'Try Kubuntu' option), but once I'd installed it on the hard drive and rebooted, the only action that went smoothly was the initial login, and even that was after waiting a few minutes until the message 'Input not compatible' disappeared from my monitor. After logging in, the screen almost froze - clicking the Kickoff button brought up the Favourites menu, but none of the available Favourites worked, and I couldn't get to the other menus, including the Leave menu. I could move the mouse and, occasionally, the clock would update, but very little else happened. The Passphrase dialogue came up for encrypting my data and I was able to enter my password+<Enter> and get a reply, but it was so painfully slow, it was difficult to see which action of mine caused anything to happen on the screen.
My PC has two hard drives. The first has Windows XP on it. The second, on which I installed Kubuntu, was completely new, and I used the Disk Setup dialogue to create 4 partitions for the OS:
/boot 500Mb (Ext4)
swap 2500Mb (unformatted)
/ (root) 15000Mb (Ext4)
/home 280Gb (Ext4, encrypted)
The processor is an AMD Athlon II X2 245,
mounted on a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-SP2 Motherboard,
with 2Gb RAM (DDR2 1066),
and NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 onboard graphics processor.
I previously tried Ubuntu 12.04.2 from DVD, but the screen did strange things, froze, and then I got lines of text on the screen (each preceded by some numerical data which I haven't noted):
GPU Lockup - switching to software fbcon
Failed to idle channel 1
Failed to idle channel 2
etc...
Ubuntu 10.10 worked well from DVD, but I've decided I prefer the Kubuntu Desktop.
My PC has two hard drives. The first has Windows XP on it. The second, on which I installed Kubuntu, was completely new, and I used the Disk Setup dialogue to create 4 partitions for the OS:
/boot 500Mb (Ext4)
swap 2500Mb (unformatted)
/ (root) 15000Mb (Ext4)
/home 280Gb (Ext4, encrypted)
The processor is an AMD Athlon II X2 245,
mounted on a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-SP2 Motherboard,
with 2Gb RAM (DDR2 1066),
and NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 onboard graphics processor.
I previously tried Ubuntu 12.04.2 from DVD, but the screen did strange things, froze, and then I got lines of text on the screen (each preceded by some numerical data which I haven't noted):
GPU Lockup - switching to software fbcon
Failed to idle channel 1
Failed to idle channel 2
etc...
Ubuntu 10.10 worked well from DVD, but I've decided I prefer the Kubuntu Desktop.
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