Hi, whilst for borked partials they may not have fully working "How-To's", it is always worth keeping an eye on http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=385 (especially the Stickies), during the test cycles. In this case http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195 and, yes, I've still managed to completely break test installations by not following the instructions / warnings !!
Regards, Phill. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Bob Trevithick <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Lane, > > What I did, after a lot of messing around trying to get things to work, was > this: > > - Log in to recovery console for root with networking > > - rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > - apt-get remove nvidia-current > > - apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > > - reboot > > I think that put me back to about what I had by default before I used the > "Hardware Drivers" program to install the nvidia-current driver. In any > event, it once again works fine unless you want to watch DVD's or some such. > > hth > > Regards, > Bob > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Lane Lester <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Bob Trevithick <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> > Looks like this is all clear now. All the appropriate bits have hit >>> the repos and th e two upgrades I’ve done are working fine. >>> >>> Except if you're running the nvidia-current driver, in which case you >>> either have to drop back to Nouveau or jump through some hoops >>> involving getting the newer driver directly from Nvidia and adding a >>> section to your xorg.conf file. I just dropped back to Nouveau -- >>> which is working normally as far as I can tell. >> >> >> Whoa! I'm glad I read your post. What does dropping back involve, just >> changing "nvidia" in the following to "nv"? >> >> Section "Device" >>> Identifier "Device0" >>> Driver "nvidia" >>> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" >>> EndSection >>> >> >> Lane >> *Lane Lester* >> The Web Doctor <http://www.the-web-doctor.com> >> You can have your own website for just $10+10+10! >> Click here to visit one of my >> sites.<http://pageswirl.com/rotate.php?user=lanelester> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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