2009/3/9 Sean Miller <[email protected]>: > Ah, hadn't spotted that... true...
> still am of the opinion, though, > that if he's still at the stage where he can re-install (or "restore" > or whatever) without losing things he'd do better with a more > up-to-date, and "vanilla", install. > Sure, and I can understand that advice, completely. > Half this problem seems, to me at least, to be to do with Rowan having > lost confidence in the whole setup of his machine. > I think Rowan is focussing on the non-free non-standard elements on his machine. Fact is the non-free non-standard bits are what is making it work. Remove those and it breaks. Update everything else, and not that bit and it breaks. That's it in a nutshell. > Installing 8.10 and finding his machine works like magic may restore > some of that. > It may well do. It could be worth Rowans time to get the ISO for vanilla 8.10 and install it (given he's reinstalled from the recovery cd) to see if everything "just works" as you assert it should (and as indeed it _should_). However, the fact still remains that he'll likely lose any support from LC. Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
