Getting very frustrated with Zorin.
Using Zorin 17.3 Pro.
After one of the last updates, the sound doesn't work. Went on forums and tried all the tricks, nothing worked.
My DVD drive appears on the screen, but doesn't even open.
SD cards work sometimes, other times refuse to even show on the screen.
Seems like, the more updates I do, the worse Zorin gets...Maybe I should go back to windows...
Welcome to the Forum!
Did You tried maybe Zorin 18 in Live Mode on an USB Stick?
Do You remember what Updates these were? Is the Sound entirely off or only very low?
Is it an internal Drive or an external?
Are the Cards differently formatted?
Or You could try something like Linux Mint.
Hi Ponce-De-Leon, thank you for your reply.
The updates were the ones one receives periodically.
The drive is internal.
The sound is entirely off.
The cards were all formatted in my computer, so the same card may function today and not tomorrow and a week later may open fine. Or I may have to format it again, losing all the information.
I mean, this is not a way to use a computer. Losing files like this, and not being able to take a course or watch a video. Specially when I spent money to have the Pro version, because I wanted the best and not having to deal with problems like these.
I would like to try Zorin 18, but I don't want to spend the money, only to realise the problems still remain. I read some other users have to regress to a previous version whenever they need sound.
What do you suggest?
Thank you in advance, and sorry for my little rant, but I feel really disappointed.
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Is it just me, or have other people been having similar problems lately? I've seen other posts on this forum about bad updates causing problems outta nowhere. Are the developers gonna address this? And as for you, @Jorge1, I am sorry you are having this problem. @Ponce-De-Leon suggested you try Linux Mint. You might want to try that. Or MX Linux. By any chance, do you recall the names of the updates you saw before allowing them? Might help. Thanks.
Do you know in which Format the SD Cards are formatted?
That is unfortunately not very specific. When there was a Kernel Update, You could try to go back to an older Kernel. To do that, go to the GRUB Mune on start-Up, choose there ''Advanced Options'' and choose the Option with an older Kernel and try if this works.
In terminal, please run
uname -r
This will show which kernel you are booted into and currently using.
Then reboot the computer, and if your Grub Menu is not displayed at boot, tap tab or esc at your computer splash screen to bring up the grub menu and select Advanced Options for Zorin.
In this menu, select the Zorin on... option for the previous kernel - not the one you are currently using.
Proceed to normal boot and when you reach the desktop, see if things are working.
(As I scroll, I see @Ponce-De-Leon covered this just above.) He is also correct that knowing what updates you received would help a great deal.
You can find this information with:
sudo grep -E " (install|upgrade) " /var/log/dpkg.log | tail -30
Which is checking recently installed or upgraded packages. You can adjust the tail length as needed, I set it to thirty lines, above.
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Thank you.
I will try that.
Cheers.
Will check that.
Thank you.
Will have a look at the updates.
Thank you.