<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 14:05 +0000, Andrew Oakley wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/12/16 Andrew Oakley <<A HREF="mailto:andrew@aoakley.com">andrew@aoakley.com</A>>: > > This sounds like a broken xorg.conf file. Try running without an > > xorg.conf file. Hardy and Intrepid should manage without one, and/or > > automatically generate a new one for you. Then use the restricted > > drivers utility System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers (NOT > > ENVY!!!) to install drivers if required. > You know envy is in the repo these days, and the author is not only a > MOTU but is Featured Contributor on the hall of fame? I don't doubt that envy is ideal for getting the most out of hardware, but if you're starting from a situation where the desktop just plain Does Not Work, it'd be better not to complicate things. Start from a blank page (no xorg.conf) and work up. Once you've got the basics working, and the restricted drivers, and compiz, then you can start worrying about which driver gives good 4xAA performance or whatnot. I've found envy to work great provided I install envy drivers on top of an already working system. Conversely, I've found envy to complicate matters unnecessarily when applied to a non-working system. -- Andrew Oakley _____________________________________________________________________ Higher Education Statistics Agency Ltd (HESA) is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England at 95 Promenade Cheltenham GL50 1HZ. Registered No. 2766993. The members are Universities UK and GuildHE. Registered Charity No. 1039709. Certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001. HESA Services Ltd (HSL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HESA, registered in England at the same address. Registered No. 3109219. _____________________________________________________________________ This outgoing email was virus scanned for HESA by MessageLabs. _____________________________________________________________________ </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> cheers everyone so far <IMG SRC="cid:1229462806.21784.0.camel@localhost" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":D" BORDER="0"> I have aactually already tried the normal jockey, which was fine, I just tried envy as an alternative option - the only difference was they recommended different releases of the driver. But I think I might have partly discovered the issue, which is completely different :S. When I set up my pc, I only set aside 15gb for the main (not /home) partition. ...That's full. *embarrassed* hehe damn. I discovered that after looking in the xorg.conf and running the reconfigure command, which threw 'Device full' at me. I checked, and so it was. So it would possibly appear that even if I did try to update, I can't <IMG SRC="cid:1229463046.21784.5.camel@localhost" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":/" BORDER="0">. Is it possible to safely resize the partitions? Thanks xD <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> =============================== Farran Lee I'm only 16 <IMG SRC="cid:1229463058.21784.7.camel@localhost" ALIGN="bottom" ALT=":-P" BORDER="0"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>