I am having big problems with my laptop. I use a wubi install of Ubuntu 11.04 atm.
This happens like 2/3 times a day, basically I will just be doing something normal on the laptop, then suddenly the screen goes black with white writting - none of which makes sense to me
This is one of the screens that appears:
It stays like that for ages, then I have to restart.
I been running both OS's for a few months now with no major problems besides wireless internet issues. Today, however, as I go to boot my laptop up, the Dell logo loads with the F2 and F12 boot and setup options which both work. Directly after that though I get the message "GRUB loading. Symbol '?' not found. Aborted. Press any key to Exit." then it repeats when I push a key, and then it tells me to press F1 to retry, F2 to go to setup, or F5 to run diagnostics. It passes all the tests in diagnostics. I've tried booting off of the ubuntu cd I used to load it initially with no luck. So I'm stuck at either that error message or in setup but I can't go any further, and it does not change anything when I tried to boot from the cd.
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If I restart without the projector, again all normal operation on laptop screen is restored.
I feel like I am missing some very silly options. Any help is appreciated.
Here is the output of xrandr when the laptop is connected:
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In order to "exercise" the laptop's battery, sometimes I let the machine run until the power goes off, but I learned that Fedora has an elegant solution: it puts the laptop to hibernate. However recently, perhaps after I installed the Catalyst driver (which is working fine BTW), when it tries to hibernate an error message is displayed saying something about "not enough swap".
I read somewhere that in some scenarios swap memory is no longer important for system's performance, that's why I created only a 1.1GB swap partition, which does not match the RAM (3GB) and I wouldn't think it should...
What can I do here in order for the laptop to hibernate again? Is the Catalyst driver the one with a problem, or should I expand the swap space for it to match the installed RAM? A workaround perhaps?
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Using IMAP to retrieve emails in Evolution is not working correctly. Some messages are recieved, others are not. Those messages that cannot be recieved, reports the following error message: Unable to retrieve message
Running the following;
evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
2.6.32-26-generic
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I can also post pictures of that screen if you require, I've to capture it through my mobile phone, which is with suck graphics.
Message:GNU GRUB version 1.98-1ubuntu5
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I've checked some forums, but apparently they relate to other scenarios that describe the solution does not work
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