pls update your system, not just kernel, i believe latest isnt .21.. for safe reboot, press n hold alt+print screen, follow by R + E + I + S + U + B(press them each individually to kill process n unmount disk, n reboot safely)

press n hold alt+print screen when u go thru R + E + I + S + U + B

not responding means when ur firefox in loading flash object? as for helix player, just get mplayer n get all codecs good n bad in repo. i believe ur using a dell laptop?

ok, i make it more english acceptable...

step 1, press n hold alt+print screen, keep holding these 2 till u completed below steps
step 2, R
step 3, E
step 4, I
step 5, S
step 6, U
step 7, B
step 8, DONE!

above steps dont need any linux knowledge nor and I.T. knowledge, just need to know ENGLISH...as i said "press n hold alt+print screen, follow by R + E + I + S + U + B(press them each individually to kill process n unmount disk, n reboot safely) "

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Added on October 29, 2008, 2:03 pmjust incase my "DONE" not clear, it means u can reboot manually or wait for it, or just press ctrl+alt+del

This post has been edited by fastcx: Oct 29 2008, 02:03 PM

hahaha ok

cheers!

u can wait for system update, but imagine dl few hundreds of mbs of updates! hehe if u really wan2 go for 8.10, get the iso, n do a clean install. tats the less hassle, less issue way

tat might sound complicated, but when its total system freeze its the safest way to reboot

im afraid tats not the case, in windows, flash run with little processor effort. but in linux n osx, flash can use over 50% of cpu power, thus ur cpu need to run at higher speed when flash is used.

hahaha now u know

er...dont la so jahat

when it give that reaction, u can just press alt+ctrl+del, n it will reboot instantly

install using wubi is actually install on windows like another windows program, think of it like u install windows software in linux using wine, slower

after u press each alphabet, give it a pause to complete the request. i think i forgotten to put ctrl in the combination.. its ctrl + alt + printscreen

its ctrl + alt + printscreen

cheers!

wubi was never the ways to experience linux, linux is an OS! if u wan2 use it, install it like any os does! not as a windows application for Linus's sake!

im sure once u use ubuntu, u'll know how messy is windows...

for my last setup, whole system just takes less than 4gb of space, these includes office softwares, n other essentials for productivity. then i create another partition for my home folder, so when i reformat or upgrade, my settings will remain.

as for swap, if ur system memory is less than 2gb, create a swap with around 512mb is more than enough. ext3 n swap r partition format, like windows' ntfs/fat32. swap is windows' virtual memory but in linux its optional, without it wont crash ur os, its advice to have at least 512mb if ur ram is less than 2gb. other partition just use ext3.

so for your reference,

1. ur /(also called root) partition u can make it 5gb~10gb, up to u, as i just use around 4gb for full system included all those codecs n shits u needs to run things or watch movies

2. then create a swap space for like 256mb~512mb.

3. the rest just create and mount as /home so all ur downloaded stuff can put in there safely without worry about reformatting ur os or anything screw up in ur system partition. this is the space that u can change stuff, n not really related to ur system's operation. for storage

no, tats just my way of arranging my stuff, / just need around 5~8gb, 10 is too much for me...swap is just as fast as ur hdd can go, it wont make it any faster, faster solution is more ram! bigger swap doesnt mean faster speed.

home partition for me is a must la...im a more organized person

ntfs-3g is builtin, so dont worry about media files on ur ntfs

what graphic card u have? use mplayer with xv video output in mplayer setting will settle it, but beware, if u use ati, your player will flicker if not in fullscreen mode! i guess ur not using nvidia, as u complain about the lag...i watched a few 720p mov, not much lag.

1 thing is for sure, currently linux's video acceleration isnt there yet, just something to compensate...nvidia n amd is making changes in their driver to support hardware acceleration, cause current way of hardware acceleration is to create a 3d texture, so ur gfx card takes k of the image in opengl...