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Saturnine Fei

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Join date: 7 Aug 2006

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12-02-2006 09:18

Hello all,

I changed distributions last week from SUsE to Ubuntu 6.10. I had all the same and expected problems runing SL so I went back through this forum and found the posts that helped me get it running under SUsE. All was well except that when I got to the point where SL started and I seemed to be logged in and ready to go my system was frozen. Mouse wouldn't move the pointer and the keyboard was ignored. I had to power-cycle the system.

I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 on a Dell 8400 with a gig of RAM and an ATI 300X (X300?) graphics card with 128MB of video RAM.

I have two questions:

Is there an equivalent to Windows <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> in Ubuntu?

What might be causing this catastrophic failure?

Thank you all in advance,
Saturnine

P.S. Remember, I'm a 4th grade teacher, not a systems administrator. Please frame you answers for the non-technical at heart.

Hello Toonie

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Join date: 25 Jul 2005

Posts: 212

12-03-2006 10:54

There are some suggestions in the troubleshooting section of the README-linux.txt file.
People here can probably help out if you need more details.

Saturnine Fei

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Join date: 7 Aug 2006

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Where do I find that file?

12-03-2006 21:41

Great... where do I find that file?

Darkside Eldrich

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Join date: 10 Feb 2006

Posts: 200

12-03-2006 21:48

From: Saturnine Fei

Great... where do I find that file?

It's in the Second Life directory. If you extracted Second Life to ~/sl, then it's ~/sl/README-linux.txt

MaxDaemon Benmergui

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Join date: 28 Dec 2005

Posts: 3

12-04-2006 15:07

I've actually been having the same problem, and I followed that troubleshooting advice in the README file, and it didn't fix the problem. Any other suggestions?

Natasha Pike

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Join date: 22 Oct 2006

Posts: 4

12-05-2006 13:50

I was freezing shortly after logging in with ubuntu 6.10 and an ati card. I ran second life from a shell with the export in this thread first: /263/84/151865/1.html and it works just fine for me now.

Natasha Pike

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Join date: 22 Oct 2006

Posts: 4

12-05-2006 13:55

I had a pretty crappy explanation written here, but I deleted it because I made a stupid mistake in it

Find your secondlife file that you click on to start second life.
Open it in a text editor like gedit
find the line which says something like #export ll_gl_blacklist=abcdefghijklmno
remove the # in front of that line and delete everything after the = except the l
save and run the file

This is all I needed to do to stop mine from freezing.

Howard Liddie

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Join date: 18 Dec 2006

Posts: 2

12-24-2006 14:15

I had the same problem running Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 9400 with an Intel 915GM graphics system. Mine now runs fine with export ll_gl_blacklist=j

System freezes when SL is run
Saturnine Fei Registered User Join date: 7 Aug 2006 Posts: 9	12-02-2006 09:18 Hello all, I changed distributions last week from SUsE to Ubuntu 6.10. I had all the same and expected problems runing SL so I went back through this forum and found the posts that helped me get it running under SUsE. All was well except that when I got to the point where SL started and I seemed to be logged in and ready to go my system was frozen. Mouse wouldn't move the pointer and the keyboard was ignored. I had to power-cycle the system. I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 on a Dell 8400 with a gig of RAM and an ATI 300X (X300?) graphics card with 128MB of video RAM. I have two questions: Is there an equivalent to Windows <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> in Ubuntu? What might be causing this catastrophic failure? Thank you all in advance, Saturnine P.S. Remember, I'm a 4th grade teacher, not a systems administrator. Please frame you answers for the non-technical at heart.
Hello Toonie Registered User Join date: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 212	12-03-2006 10:54 There are some suggestions in the troubleshooting section of the README-linux.txt file. People here can probably help out if you need more details.
Saturnine Fei Registered User Join date: 7 Aug 2006 Posts: 9	Where do I find that file? 12-03-2006 21:41 Great... where do I find that file?
Darkside Eldrich Registered User Join date: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 200	12-03-2006 21:48 From: Saturnine Fei Great... where do I find that file? It's in the Second Life directory. If you extracted Second Life to ~/sl, then it's ~/sl/README-linux.txt
MaxDaemon Benmergui Registered User Join date: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 3	12-04-2006 15:07 I've actually been having the same problem, and I followed that troubleshooting advice in the README file, and it didn't fix the problem. Any other suggestions?
Natasha Pike Registered User Join date: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 4	12-05-2006 13:50 I was freezing shortly after logging in with ubuntu 6.10 and an ati card. I ran second life from a shell with the export in this thread first: /263/84/151865/1.html and it works just fine for me now.
Natasha Pike Registered User Join date: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 4	12-05-2006 13:55 I had a pretty crappy explanation written here, but I deleted it because I made a stupid mistake in it Find your secondlife file that you click on to start second life. Open it in a text editor like gedit find the line which says something like #export ll_gl_blacklist=abcdefghijklmno remove the # in front of that line and delete everything after the = except the l save and run the file This is all I needed to do to stop mine from freezing.
Howard Liddie Registered User Join date: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 2	12-24-2006 14:15 I had the same problem running Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 9400 with an Intel 915GM graphics system. Mine now runs fine with export ll_gl_blacklist=j

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