I have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Ubuntu. It is actually for my girlfriend, her old laptop is about to stop working. It had Windows XP Pro, but I also installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a separate partition, however, that stopped working and she carried on with XP. I offered to buy her a new laptop, and she agreed to have it with Ubuntu, anything other than Vista.
Well, so far the laptop is working okay, except that when the screensaver is running, and I press a key to kill the screensaver, the whole thing just freezes. The screensaver image is frozen, and no key presses do anything. I have to press the power button to reset the laptop and reboot. The screensaver is Helios. Running Ubuntu 8.04.1, with Gnome, standard Dell install with a few extra software programs, but no major changes to the system. I have updated Ubuntu online with the latest updates for 8.04. I have changed to a different screensaver (SlideScreen) to stop the problem in case it is Helios. Also I changed the setting for Power Management to not switch off the screen (it was previously set to switch off after 40 minutes). I wonder if perhaps the more fancy screensavers are just too much for whatever graphics hardware is in the laptop? David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
