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[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Ok, install 12.04 then.  I'm still on 12.04 on quite a few machines and
many other people are too.  The LTS releases (12.04, 14.04 and in a couple
years the 16.04) have 5 years support.  So the 12.04 still has several
years of support such as back-ported bug-fixes and updates.

The 6 monthly releases, such as 11.04, only have 9 months support so it's
difficult to even install programs after that 9 months has elapsed.

Now that you have found it's a driver issue it might be possible to find
the driver in the 12.04 and somehow get it into the 14.04 but honestly i
think it's easier just to stick with the 12.04.


On most of my machines i have a separate /home partition and 2 root /
partitions.  So on this machine one of my / partitions has 14.04 and the
other has 12.04.  The idea is that whichever one i don't boot into so often
is available for me to try out the 6 monthlies, or install other distros on
to test-drive them.  It means i always have at least 1 partition that i can
boot into and use, and most of the time i have a back-up system too jic
something weird happens to my current main one.

Actually i have found it best to have each root keep it's own /home to
begin with.  The big /home is not really a /home = it's more just a
separate partition that keeps all my main data (such as movies,
tele-series, documents, images, etc).  The separate / each have about
15-25Gb.


So basically i am saying reinstall the 12.04 and stick with that.  Plus try
to find some way of testing newer releases without having to risk losing
the system that works well for you.
Regards from
Tom :)


On 16 October 2014 18:24, EDWARD ROBERTS <e.roberts321 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Dear Tom
>
> Your questions prompted me to dig up an old version of Ubuntu v11.04 and
> install alongside v14.04. This only worked in fail-safe mode and messages
> led me to discover that there is a problem with the screen driver or the
> built-in video card telling me to configure them myself. I have no idea how
> to do this. Rinning in fail-safe mode doesn't allow and updates to be made
> and HP do not do drivers for Linux.
>
> Any further help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Yours Faithfully
>
> E.Roberts
>
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