Ubuntu 7.10 comes up in Low Video Resolution.

[Ralph Janke]

Normally kernels are not removed. You can comment them out,
or delete them in the grub menu.lst file.

- Ralph

Alfred wrote:
> Hi:
>
> In my main 7.10 Ubuntu I had 2 Kernels, an old one and a new one. The
> new one had the new Nvidia Driver as did the old one, but it said it was
> not in use, in the new Kernel. I tried the old Kernel, and everything
> works Fine. So I thought let's remover the Newer Kernel, and then
> re-install that. There seems to be all kinds of things, now not working
> in the newer kernel. All the suggestions, and reconfiguration of that
> newer Kernel don't work. 
>
> So I'll look in Add/remove to try to get rid of the newer Kernel, or
> look in Synaptic to try to get rid of it, along with the files that go
> with it. Make sure it is not in the Cache,
> like /var/cache/apt/archives , then re download it, and install the same
> one over. Then install from Add/Remove the newer Nvidia Driver, and it
> will work again (Perhaps!) 
>
> Any other suggestion on removing a bad Kernel would be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Alfred!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com>
> Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu 7.10 comes up in Low Video Resolution.
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:02:48 -0400
> Mailer: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925)
>
> You need the proprietary nvidia driver. It must be installed
> (it is in the restricted section which must be enabled) and
> also configured in org.conf (nvidia instead of nv).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> - Ralph
>
> Alfred wrote:
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>> Hi:
>>
>> On a Hard Drive, I had 3 Partitions with, Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu Studio
>> (7.10), and Ubuntu 8.04. I had many Problems with Ubuntu 8.04 (32 Bit),
>> and I was not using Ubuntu Studio much. So I deleted the two Partitions
>> with Ubuntu Studio, and Ubuntu 8.04. Then I put Ubuntu Ultimate Edition
>> (7.10) in the new free space, created. It is working nicely; however,
>> Ubuntu 7.10 that I use all the time, now Boots up in Low Screen
>> Resolution. The Nvidia Drivers is enabled, but not is use, so there is
>> no Accelerated Graphics happening. There does not seem to be a way to
>> Get the Nvidia New Driver working. It's an Nvidia 5500. I tried to
>> Remove the Nvidia New Driver, then re-install it, however, it will not
>> let me do this even in Root, saying that Dpkg was interupted, and that I
>> need to run 'dpkg--configure -a' however this does not work either. In
>> add/remove it says that perhaps there might be two gconfigs, and that
>> 'sudo nvidia-glx-config enable' might need to be run. this does not go
>> anywhere because the XML file for gconfig seems to be missing. The
>> second error that comes up says that the cache is open.
>>
>> I might try to install the older Nvidia driver, so that the new Driver
>> would be removed, then try to install the new Driver again so that the
>> old driver is removed. Anyone know how to get my High Resolution back?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Alfred!
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