[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu one

2012-07-01 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there Back from holiday and I got a really annoying problem. On return, I updated 12.04 that I have dual-booting with 12.10 testing. I also installed a video driver that was offered - and wrecked the whole thing! After re-booting, I got a failure and dropped to the command prompt.

[ubuntu-uk] It's not always updates that cause problems

2012-07-01 Thread Bill B.
Hi all, A cautionary tale: Turned on netbook [Acer Aspire 150] for the first time since a kernel update. Got to password screen and performed an immediate catastrophic power off - as in software risking instant type. First instinct was battery death. Wrong. Next instinct was the dreaded damn

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the Vaio S series

2012-07-01 Thread doug livesey
Hi -- has anyone got Ubuntu up running on a Sony Vaio S series? I've read a little bit that suggests there may be difficulties with the graphics drivers, which switch between two modes. Just wondered, is all -- I was fantasising about a new machine playing with the online configurers, and the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the Vaio S series

2012-07-01 Thread Anton Kanishchev
Dont want to move you away from it, i probably had a lemon-but this is my short story of ownership of the s series 15 inch (still have my vaio nw 2009). I configured a vaio s 15 inch to the brim -essentially top spec, i7, 8gb ram , best gpu, 256gb ssd(about 220 actually free). Problems started

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the Vaio S series

2012-07-01 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 1 July 2012 23:17, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi -- has anyone got Ubuntu up running on a Sony Vaio S series? I've read a little bit that suggests there may be difficulties with the graphics drivers, which switch between two modes. Just wondered, is all -- I was fantasising