OS: Ubuntu Linux 8.04
Laptop (I bought it the summer of 2005): http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-satellite-m55-s325/4507-3121_7-31439169.html?tag=mncol;rnav
For awhile now (a few months?), my computer seemed to be having a tough time multitasking. For instance, I’d be running Deluge, Firefox, and VLC and the VLC video would start skipping while Firefox was loading a page. I figured I just needed to reboot to clear caches or something (I don’t reboot often, since I let Deluge go overnight), and most of the time that would work.
Well, today I reboot, and all that loads is my wallpaper. It doesn’t detect my Wacom tablet (which I use as a mouse), and when I try and move the mouse via touchpad, it has to think about it for a long time, like it’s got some other (huge!) program running in the background.
I’ve tried rebooting a few times, always with the same result. Once, it did load the top menu, but the mouse still wouldn’t work properly, so I really couldn’t do much.
I’m running off the Live CD right now, and that’s working great. (Slow, but you know.) It’s seems to be picking up my internal and external hard drives just fine, which good.
I’d like to know what I could do to help diagnose/fix the problem(s) with my laptop. Is it an OS problem (time for a reinstall), or is it something to do with my hardware?
Thanks very much in advance!
