12.10 no menus etc

[Liam Proven]

On 2 January 2013 17:45, Grizzly <Real_Grizz_Adams at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Others have said it "may" be my graphic chipset (nVidia gForce4 MX440)
>
> After what seems like forever and much googling of Ubuntu stuff, there are
> many (possible) solutions for "Recent" nVidia cards, one even got me the
> Right Click & the Install Icon (but made my 1920x1200 desktop PC think it was
>
> a 800x600 Laptop) but not much for older cards, which have worked up until
> now
>
> So I have downloaded the driver from nVidia.com/Unix in a .run file, at first
>
> it would not install because :-
>
> an X-Server was running ("sudo service lightdm stop" fixed that)
>
> then
>
> Nauveau was running, so far no joy stopping that
>
> anyone actually fixed this without scrapping the whole thing and going back
> to 12.04

I've had that one, back to 11.10 at least.

I blacklisted nouveau & rebooted in order to install the proprietary
drivers. I think. It was a while back.

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