How did you do your install, using a live CD or a USB stick?. If you used a disk, did you burn the disk at the slowest possible speed and if you used a USB stick, did you fully format the USB drive? .
Hi all,
as the title suggests, some and/or many problems with your installation can be avoided by burning the ISO file at the "SLOWEST POSSIBLE SPEED", most if not all burner apps will automatically choose the fastest speed available for your disk burner drive so it is important before you commit to burn a CD/DVD that you select the menu tab which controls the burn speed and select the lowest number on offer.
Your burner drive may well support a burn speed of 20 X for DVD and 60 X for CD's a…
See the beginners guide which may also help you:
WARNING 1:
BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA BEFORE YOU START TO INSTALL IN CASE THINGS GO WRONG!. SAVE ALL YOUR IMPORTANT FILES AND FOLDERS TO EITHER AN EXTERNAL USB DRIVE AND/OR TO A 2ND HARD DRIVE ON YOUR PC. DO NOT SAVE ANYTHING ON THE SAME DRIVE YOU INTEND TO USE FOR LINUX UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND/KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!. ONCE YOU START PARTITIONING AND YOU COMMIT TO FORMATTING YOUR PARTITIONS, THERE IS NO GOING BACK!.
WARNING 2:
IF YOU HAVE A RECOVERY PARTITION AND HAVE NOT CREATED ANY RECOVERY DISKS FO…
Try using 14.04 like I suggested here in your other thread:
What version of Ubuntu Mate are you using?.
I have an old laptop and have to use Ubuntu Mate 14.04 because it would auto suspend during boot using UM 15.10 (I am currently trying UM 16.04 beta on it which apart from one time; went into suspend during bootup!).
Have you checked your settings in Control Center > Look and feel > Screensaver/Power manager?. https://ubuntu-mate.org/trusty/