[ubuntu-za] Please help

[Wesley Werner]

Hi Jan,

Miles is onto something there... which graphics card is it Jan? (make + model please). we can search the net for solutions that other people has found.

Unfortunately the graphics cards vre the sore point for many Linux people. 

Wes

On 8 January 2015 21:13:56 SAST, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net> wrote:
>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
>>   
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 17:57 +0200, Jan Greeff wrote:
>>> Best of 2015 to all.
>>>
>>> I'm very embarrassed!
>>>
>>> "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!
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Can somebody please help?
>>>
>>> Best of 2015 to all.
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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