A situation happened yesterday with my Linux box. I was running Ubuntu 7.04 and
when I ran a large series of updates, the video was totally screwed up. The
system is old hardware, a PIII-733 and 512MB RAM. It has an Nvidia video card
but I can't remember the model off the top of my head. It's been running Ubuntu
Linux for a couple of years now. First of all, the first reboot after the
start would only allow me to have 800x600 or 640x480 optons, not the 1024x768
the monitor allows. After the second reboot, the screen was clean and clear and
working fine until Ubuntu was running after the login, then it was as though
the interlacing was only working on half of the screen so everything was messed
up along those lines and it was also like I had three screens compressed and
blurry and sitting side by side on the monitor. It's the same monitor that it's
had all along so there were no changes.
I'm not asking for a solution but bring this up for informations sake. The
solution was actually to download v8.04.1 LTS and reinstall from scratch. By
doing this I also took the opportunity to reformat the drive and remove the
Windows 2000 Pro that still resided there as well as the old v7.04. I had
nothing on the drive that wasn't backed up so nothing was lost. I wish that
reinstalling Windows was as easy as installing Ubuntu was. It took a fraction
of the time and was very clean with just one set of updates afterwards to get
things totally up to date.
I'm now hoping to be able to get at the hardware that I have taking up room so
that I can donate it for Linux purposes. I'll pass it on when they're ready for
donation.
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