upgrade today - graphics borked.

Verde Denim tdldev at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 20:51:26 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:40 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 07/02/2009 12:49 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
> > In trying to resolve this issue, i pulled up the nvidia docs on ubuntu
> > pages.
> > It says to check the installed hardware drivers and make sure it is
> checked.
> > I have re-installed this twice but each time i go into hardware drivers,
> > there isn't anything there.
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > lspci reports the nvidia hardware.
> > .xsession-errirs reports this:
> > ** (nautilus:10240): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
> >
> > I have a dell 1503FP as default and a panasonic 42" plasma tv as a
> > secondary.
> > The dell has no display at all, and the res/display on the plasma (the
> only
> > one I can get)
> > is horrible.
> >
> > Thanks for the help. This is driving me a little whippy...
> >
> > Jack
> >
> >
>
> And what 'updates' would those be?
>
> On my hardy 8.04 test machine I see that there are several security
> updates:
> - libvlc0
> - vlc
> - vlc-nox
> - vlc-plugin-pulse
> Plus several Proposed updates:
> - sun-java6-bin
> etc., etc.
>
> On one of my jaunty 9.04 machines:
> - libpurple-bin
> - pidgin
> - sun-java6-bin
> etc., etc.
>
> On this jaunty 9.04 machine:
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>  libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libperl5.10 libpurple0 perl perl-base perl-doc
>  perl-modules pidgin pidgin-data sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre
> 11 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 62.3MB of archives.
>
> You see, 'upgrade today' doesn't mean a whole lot unless you specify
> which upgrade & which k/u/x/buntu.



NoOp - I stand corrected. I'm running 8.04 LTS server (64-bit). The upgrade
this morning (7/2/2009) specified kernel upgrades.

Jack

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