I recently installed 32-bit Xubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04.1 LTS from a purchased live dvd on a partition on my MacBook Pro 1,2 with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo processor and 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM I think this question belongs here, not in the Apple Hardware forum, because, as noted below, I've found many records of people with different hardware types running this distro having this problem.
Everything works fine except for the problem explained in the thread linked below: whenever the computer goes to sleep (whether I shut the lid or not) it 'wakes up' either to a very dim screen which doesn't respond to keyboard brightness controls or to an absolutely black screen, and I have to manually shut it off. This is a large enough problem to render the OS pretty much unusable.:( I've seen online reports of the same problem from Xubuntu users with a variety of Mac and PC laptops; many fixes are given (I've tried the ones I understood how to pull off so far) and some people report solutions, others ongoing problems which eventually led them to switch to another distro.
(Detailed description of the problem, and my attempted fixes, in this thread: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....2#post13596882)
3 questions:
How do you decide whether to keep trying fixes, reinstall what you had before, or try another distro?
If keeping trying seems indicated: Some fixes start with going into 'system settings' and changing settings in a window I've not yet found. I can go into Settings, and thence into Power Manager, but that doesn't offer the exact options shown in the fixes. How should I access system settings, if they're separate from Settings?
If another distro seems indicated, can you recommend any that have ongoing 32-bit support, would run on the older machine I have, and are more bug-free than Xubuntu? Lightweights are fine with me, as I don't need serious graphics capability; the ability to enlarge screen icons would be helpful, as the computer I'm converting to Linux is for my visually impaired mother.
Any advice greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Everything works fine except for the problem explained in the thread linked below: whenever the computer goes to sleep (whether I shut the lid or not) it 'wakes up' either to a very dim screen which doesn't respond to keyboard brightness controls or to an absolutely black screen, and I have to manually shut it off. This is a large enough problem to render the OS pretty much unusable.:( I've seen online reports of the same problem from Xubuntu users with a variety of Mac and PC laptops; many fixes are given (I've tried the ones I understood how to pull off so far) and some people report solutions, others ongoing problems which eventually led them to switch to another distro.
(Detailed description of the problem, and my attempted fixes, in this thread: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....2#post13596882)
3 questions:
How do you decide whether to keep trying fixes, reinstall what you had before, or try another distro?
If keeping trying seems indicated: Some fixes start with going into 'system settings' and changing settings in a window I've not yet found. I can go into Settings, and thence into Power Manager, but that doesn't offer the exact options shown in the fixes. How should I access system settings, if they're separate from Settings?
If another distro seems indicated, can you recommend any that have ongoing 32-bit support, would run on the older machine I have, and are more bug-free than Xubuntu? Lightweights are fine with me, as I don't need serious graphics capability; the ability to enlarge screen icons would be helpful, as the computer I'm converting to Linux is for my visually impaired mother.
Any advice greatly appreciated. Thanks.