Hello,
I am a new user of Ubuntu Budgie. I am french, so excuse me for my English writing…
I hope the system will not freeze before the end of my topic.
Before that, I tried Ubuntu V24.04 LTS : impossible to install. Then V22.04 LTS : always freezing after 10 mn. V20.04 : freezing when listening music.
Then Lubuntu and after Linux Mint Cinamon V22.4 (good ads for stability, but no way)
Always same freezing pb (mouse, then system).
So I am trying Ubuntu Bugdie V24.04.2, and it seems to be stable, but during installation of Libre office : freezing (3 times to install). Trying to watch a video : freezing after 2 mn… and always freezing, if I do other think than using installed applications, and only one by one (no writing this topic with listening music).
So if some one can help.
I have a Packard Bell with 6 Go RAM DDR2, AM Athlon II x4 640 3.00 GHz, Nvidia Geforce GT320, old bios with MBR, no EFI.
Budgie is installed on a SATA HD 160 Go, sda (installed with format option, and grub on the same hd), I have Windows 10 on another hd (SATA 2 To).
Best regards.
The freezing issues are highly likely due to your old graphics card. The oldest nvidia driver is the 390 series. I am not sure if that is still available for ubuntu 24.04. If it isnt then you will be using the opensource nouveau driver.
Do check if a driver is available - look in ubuntu sources - additional drivers to see if is available and whether you need to activate it.
What about testing your RAM?
As I am a linux rookie, how do you replace a graphics card driver ?
Do you have a special tool suggestion. I did it in windows mode, no pb detected.
When you boot linux, in grub there should be a memtest option, try that.
Happens to me too.. only maybe 2 times a month. I do a reboot and I’m fine. (also NVIDIA). I can live with that. If it happens all the time, you might want to check out some YouTube Videos. I can’t give you a link here, but this is the Title: Ubuntu: How can I uninstall Nvidia proprietary drivers?
(2 Solutions) video from: Roel Van de Paar ////// or: Debian Linux - Uninstall NVIDIA Driver (Step-by-Step) video from: “SYSADMIN 102” ////// Hope this helps. It’s not a guarantee, but maybe it will solve your problem.
Hi,
I did a memory test wiyh Memtest86 ver 5.31b => no problem.
I did a system upgrade, as proposed.
I surched for additionnal driver in the system information : no additional driver.
I found also for graphics : NVA3 (I don’t know if it is a NVIDIA driver.
For the moment, it seems to be stable, exceeding all the durations with other Linux version.
Thank’s a lot for different proposals. I keep the Nvidia solution from Germoney.
You can mark the post as “solution” if you want, after a few more days of testing.