Bug loading 8.10

[Karl F. Larsen]

Shannon McMackin wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Shannon McMackin wrote:
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>>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> Tortise wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> Did you update ubuntu immediately following the install?
>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>> David
>>>>>
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>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>     I do not know how to do this.
>>>>
>>>> Karl
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>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> The 1st step I always follow after any install is to allow the default 
>>> tool to install all updates available.  In ubuntu, this would be 
>>> synaptic.  Applying these updates may have given you the current nVidia 
>>> drivers as described...
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     I know how to fix it. My complaint is that using the LiveCD I 
>> installed 8.10 and two automatic things failed to work. These things 
>> worked fine on Hardy.
>>
>> Karl
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>>
>>     
> Look at the thread...
>
> David asked if you applied updates and you responded that you didn't 
> know how.
>
> Now you know how, must be a momentary lapse that caused you to post that 
> you didn't know...
>
>
>   
    I fooled around with the nVidia problem today and managed to get the 
wrong nVidia version installed. I used 173 which was the one it wanted, 
and this one causes a thin line at the top of the screen.

    To fix this I will have to mount 8.10 to this computer and hand 
modify the video system back to the broken driver that comes with 
Ubuntu. Then try to load the right driver which I have zero idea which 
is right!

    If I was a newby just from windows trying 8.10 on a computer that 
supports windows fine but does this to them when they try Ubuntu, you 
wonder why so many go back to windows?

Karl


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