[ubuntu-za] Please help

[Jan Greeff]

Many thanks Miles.

I just have to get this guy's machine going, so am installing 12.04. 
Will see how things are in a few minutes but am very seriously 
considering Mint as my next step. This bug has been around for more than 
six months...under control of ANC or ESKOM?

Best wishes,

Jan


On 08/01/2015 21:07, Miles wrote:
> Sjoe! Ive had this but not sure what I did to fix it Jan. I think I did
> ctrl+alt+F3 then login in the cli. then do sudo apt-get update and
> upgrade. Then if you know what nvidia driver is need install that, or
> install nvidia-current. then you should at least see resolution
> settings. If it boots to the cli , login and do sudo apt-get install
> gdm. then it will ask what gui you want to use, choose gdm and see how
> far you get. if you still battling come to irc freenode #ubuntu-za there
> are some clever peeps there
> good luck.
> Miles
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> On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 17:57 +0200, Jan Greeff wrote:
>> Best of 2015 to all.
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>> I'm very embarrassed!
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>> "Helped"  a friend to convert to Ubuntu 14.04 on his Proline laptop, now
>> he has this ridiculously large display twice the size of his screen and
>> no way to change the resolution/display. The computer is largely unuseable!
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>> I have followed these instructions to install mesa-utils, no change:
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/85318/how-can-i-get-my-graphics-card-to-be-recognized-in-system-info
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>> Can somebody please help?
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>> Best of 2015 to all.
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>> Jan
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