Fw: frozen disc

Mon May 9 11:38:26 UTC 2011

Sorry everyone, I just realised I've been just hitting 'reply' in my haste and 
my conversation with Mick was happening on PM and not going on the list.  It's 
been a long time since I've used a purely list based group.  

The following is the convo so far.  We've been top posting, so start at the 
bottom.  er hum... :-/

If anyone has further ideas please chime in.

Chris.

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From: Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com>
To: Mick Skey <skey.mick at gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 9 May, 2011 9:29:02 PM
Subject: Re: frozen disc

Hi Mick, sorry it took me a white to get back to you, I broke my Natty install 
(again!) and had to fix it.

It seems the problem might be lack of 310M support in the 260.xx.xx driver.  
There's a bug report about it in launchpad: 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/658657

Unfortunately if that is the driver on the LiveCD it will make it very hard to 
test before you install.  If that's the driver you're currently using with 10.10 
then it shouldn't be working at all according to that bug report.  (?!)

I wouldn't go ahead with the update if I were you, it does look like it will 
break your system.  11.04 has a lot of  new stuff in it, including a new "X 
stack" (I'm not even sure what it is, but it sounds like low level X-server 
stuff) and everyone is taking a pounding with graphics related install problems 
over on ubuntuforums.org.  My own broken install was graphics related - I 
changed graphics cards and Natty decided the new one should run at much higher 
sync rates than the old one.

Given the fact that the 310M is not mentioned on the ubuntu wiki compatibility 
page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsNvidia
and the above mentioned loss of support in the 260.xx.xx driver you might be 
better skipping over 11.04 and see if 11.10 works better for you.

If you really want to have a go at 11.04 and Unity I suggest you back up your 
data, then shrink your current working partition and make a new partition of 
about 25  GB that you can install 11.04 to.  You could try asking for help on 
ubuntuforums.org with the graphics problem as there's some very clever people 
over there and someone may have the solution.  The advantage of having a 
separate partition is obvious: you don't have to break your working partition, 
and you can re-install and break it as many times as you want without risking 
your data or getting stuck with no computer.

I also recommend a fresh install over an upgrade any day.  I've helped a lot of 
people (on ubuntuforums.org) after a broken upgrade left them with a non-booting 
computer.  Helped them recover their data that is, because they didn't do a 
backup.  Learn from other's mistakes, eh? :-)

Chris.

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From: Mick Skey <skey.mick at gmail.com>
To: Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sun, 8 May, 2011 7:16:57 PM
Subject: Re: frozen disc

Hi Chris
The computer I have is Samsung R-580
withi5
4 Ram
600 HDD
NVIDIA driver version 260.19.06
Graphics Processor  GeForce 310M
Hope this helps
Mick

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Some details on your computer would be handy, especially what graphics 
card/chipset do you have?
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>Code:
>lspci | grep VGA
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>You could also try the CD in another computer if possible.
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>Chris.
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From: Mick Skey <skey.mick at gmail.com>
>To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
>Sent: Sun, 8 May, 2011 12:45:37 PM
>Subject: frozen disc
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>Hi Guy's
>a quick one for you I have just received a disc with 11.04 on it, and my 
>computer
>recognize there is new programs on it and ask to update, however I would like to 
>try
>before I put it on, and we go through the process to the point try or install, 
>and that is far I can go
>I can not to try and/or load the program, some how I can get into Compiz config 
>setting manager
>from the task bar,
>I would like to know if any-one can point me into right direction to sort the 
>hic-cup out?  
>
>-- 
>M.Skey
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M.Skey
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