8.10 problems, resolved

[Shannon McMackin]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com>  said:
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>>> 2. There is no "display-config-gtk" on either Ubuntu's.
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>> I just looked it up; it is, "displayconfig-gtk."
>> I'm quite sure that it is what Ray meant.
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>> Cybe R. Wizard
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>     Well gang I am now on 8.10 with the proper driver for this nvidia 
> video hardware series 6300 which is the "83" series software. I tried 
> the "173" and "177" first and they just put a band of light across the 
> top of the screen.
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>     None of the cute things you all had me try were needed. I used the 
> System-Administration-Hardware-Drivers software. It didn't work very 
> well the first few times but on the last try it worked fine.
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>     Now the screen is a giant 1280x1024 on a 17 inch flat liquid crystal 
> monitor 7 years old and still as good as new.
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>     Thanks to you all for your help. I have no idea why it was so hard 
> to do but it appears you need to have the 331 updates before you try to 
> get the nvidia softwar drivers. And that did not work real well at first.
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Karl,

You posted earlier that a kernel update broke your wireless.  I'd like 
to point out that there are a few critical packages for each kernel 
release.  When you get a new linux-image update, make sure to also apply 
the update to linux-backports-modules and linux-restricted-modules.  If 
you use the meta package for these items, it should automatically pull 
in the new package when an update is available.