On 02/16/2014 06:30 AM, Bric wrote: > My old system was, indeed, trashed. An accidental re-boot proved that > it wasn't going into GUI mode anymore. Thus, I upgraded, and am now on > Ubuntu 12.
Now upgrade a few more times to get to trusty(14.04) to get the latest bells and whistles. Then there are recipes to get trusty with the latest GNOME available through some extra ppa's repositories. Then you can install proprietary graphics display drivers as final step. HINT: BE PATIENT. Never reboot or control-C during the install/upgrade. Just let it do its thing. One of the slowest parts of the install/upgrade is always the graphics chipset hardware identification and resolution capability testing. That's why it takes so long and especially on older hardware. It will flicker a lot. Just wait until it settles on a certain resolution or it comes back on its own to the text-mode console. Go for a coffee or something. HINT: BE PATIENT. There are possibly disk error checks done when upgrading which also cause for slower bootup sequences. Don't reboot or control-C. Just let it do its thing. Installing proprietary drivers for nvidia/ati are always the culprits for the gui display manager failing. Remove the proprietary display drivers for now. From the command-line, upgrade to 13.04, 13.10, and finally to 14.04. Expect a 6-8 hours for each upgrade to complete so it will probably take you a good 3 days to finish if you take a day for each of these version jumps. When you're done all the upgrading, then you may install the proprietary drivers for nvidia/ati to your heart's content. That will take another hour to download and install. Once all this is done, you'll be up-to-date and your current issues will be resolved. Cheers, David Marceau _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
