8.10 problems

[Karl F. Larsen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Wed, 2/4/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: 8.10 problems
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 8:43 PM
>> I let 331 upgrades be finished and as I figured it had ZERO
>> effect 
>> on the video problem.
>>
>> Karl
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>>
>>     
> Did you ever tell the list just what nvidia
> card you are using. 
    From memory it is a 6300 series nVidia.


>  Don't remember  since you don't stay on topic very much. Go ahead and install the latest nvidia proprietary driver,nvidia-glx-180 in Intrepid, including the kernel-source and modaliases and report back if it worked, be sure to reboot before you decide and run xfix from recovery mode if it doesn't work out of the box. So what if it doesn't work for you, it can easily be fixed from a tty terminal as you should know.
>   
    I cannot load any Ubuntu nVidia driver software because the sources 
are down. Before that happened I got the 173 loaded and that is too new, 
I got a thin line at the top of the screen.

    Unless it is fixed today I will go to the nVida web page and get the 
right driver for my system and install it. Alas this fix is good for 
just one kernel. At the next kernel upgrade I have to do it again, like 
Red Hat was/is.


> Now that you have intrepid fully updated you can try all the nvidia proprietary drivers until you find one that works but remember what I said in my first post on this thread; try the newest first as the newest generally works with more cards and works better.
>   
    I know that and it didn't work.
> One more thing, I don't know why I'm replying to this after your comments on my first post on this thread; I must be a glutton for punishment or maybe it's because you finally did a full upgrade of intrepid as advised. You certainly would get better response from the group if you just followed it's advice and report back the results instead of flying off in circles.  But you've been told that before.
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
>   
    I was trying to get this thing working. It Failed to do this from 
start and then the Ubuntu sources were turned off. It has not been good.

Karl



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