rockyjoe
Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:43:04 am
Hello all.
I had been running Zorin 7 for a year or so with no problems. Upgraded to 9 today and have had countless problems.
1 - I was using a Cisco AM 10 USB wifi adapter with Zorin 7. Performed the 9 install (overwriting 7), it used the wifi connection to download
updates etc. during the install, then after the reboot with the new OS suddenly could not recognize the adapter. I unplugged it and plugged it
back in but nothing. Retried the install with a wired network connection with AM 10 plugged in then again not plugged in and tried to plug it in
but both times no good. Zorin 7 automatically recognized this piece of hardware. What's the problem with 9?
2 - I was using a Radeon HD6570 video card with Zorin 7, again no problems. After installing 9 everything just went haywire. It froze at different times
whenever it felt like it, sometimes at the login screen, sometimes after the first mouse move or keystroke after logging in, sometimes after logging
in it would just show a mouse cursor and nothing else, sometimes the whole screen except the mouse cursor, and every screen was full of speckles
and blinking moving things. I had to pull out the card and go back to the built in one on the motherboard.
3 - The DVD interprets whatever it feels like seeing on a DVD. I put a DVD in, it showed me all the files on it as well as the name of the DVD (volume label)
then I realized it wasn't the DVD I wanted so I took it out and put in another one. This time it showed that the DVD had nothing on it (which was not true)
and said something like "300 MiB volume" and still showed the name of the DVD that I had already removed. I just took it out put it in my Windows
machine, which read it with no problem then copied it to a flash drive, which Zorin was able to read.
At this point I'm exasperated. FWIW I also tried to do an Ubuntu 14.04 install on this box after I had problems with Zorin and the problems I had with it
were even worse. I can't believe that after this long linux is still at this level and that a higher level of an OS can't handle hardware that a lower one did.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rocky
I had been running Zorin 7 for a year or so with no problems. Upgraded to 9 today and have had countless problems.
1 - I was using a Cisco AM 10 USB wifi adapter with Zorin 7. Performed the 9 install (overwriting 7), it used the wifi connection to download
updates etc. during the install, then after the reboot with the new OS suddenly could not recognize the adapter. I unplugged it and plugged it
back in but nothing. Retried the install with a wired network connection with AM 10 plugged in then again not plugged in and tried to plug it in
but both times no good. Zorin 7 automatically recognized this piece of hardware. What's the problem with 9?
2 - I was using a Radeon HD6570 video card with Zorin 7, again no problems. After installing 9 everything just went haywire. It froze at different times
whenever it felt like it, sometimes at the login screen, sometimes after the first mouse move or keystroke after logging in, sometimes after logging
in it would just show a mouse cursor and nothing else, sometimes the whole screen except the mouse cursor, and every screen was full of speckles
and blinking moving things. I had to pull out the card and go back to the built in one on the motherboard.
3 - The DVD interprets whatever it feels like seeing on a DVD. I put a DVD in, it showed me all the files on it as well as the name of the DVD (volume label)
then I realized it wasn't the DVD I wanted so I took it out and put in another one. This time it showed that the DVD had nothing on it (which was not true)
and said something like "300 MiB volume" and still showed the name of the DVD that I had already removed. I just took it out put it in my Windows
machine, which read it with no problem then copied it to a flash drive, which Zorin was able to read.
At this point I'm exasperated. FWIW I also tried to do an Ubuntu 14.04 install on this box after I had problems with Zorin and the problems I had with it
were even worse. I can't believe that after this long linux is still at this level and that a higher level of an OS can't handle hardware that a lower one did.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rocky