The 11.10 CD would not install from Try It mode. The box hung again with the same symptoms: no keyboard and mouse (both are USB) and the display frozen in some odd resolution.
So I made a 12.04 CD (from a Windows box) and booted it and tried to install, and got the same thing: The box hung again with the same symptoms: no keyboard and mouse (both are USB) and the display frozen in some resolution. At this point, I must explain that I had started with Ubuntu 9, upgraded to 10, then to 11, and these on-line incremental upgrades had all gone fine. Only the incremental upgrade from 11 to 12 failed. Why a fresh install of Ubuntu 11 would screw up is beyond me, since the incremental upgrade from 10 to 11 works! I got upset and put in Windows Vista Ultimate, which one of my kids had given me when he upgraded to Windows 7 to play his silly games on. The install finished correctly but Windows complained that it did not have a driver for my Ethernet chip. Come on, this is a Dell box with a common Broadcom Ethernet chip! And Windows can't handle it?!? Oh well, neither could Ubuntu 11 or 12 (for different reasons). So then I went back to Ubuntu 10, and installed that fresh. It works! I am sticking with Ubuntu 10! I was just growing used to the Unity interface in 11, and I really like the Ubuntu 11 software package manager. But, I am used to the Bluecurve GUI, and I hate the ribbon across the top in Ubuntu 11: I believe each window should have its own menu bar at the top of that window. So, sum total, I am sticking with Ubuntu 10 long-term! Thank you for your kind attention. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994945 Title: Xorg freeze upon upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 - system unusable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/994945/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
