Heads up for those running Maverick. With the arrival of the new X-server
things could go a bit awry, if you are not careful. I’ve already messed one
installation up.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195
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Steve Cook (Yorvyk)
http://lubuntu.net
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Yorvyk wrote:
Heads up for those running Maverick. With the arrival of the new X-server
> things could go a bit awry, if you are not careful. I’ve already messed one
> installation up.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195
>
> --
> Steve Cook (Yorvyk
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:39:54 -0400
Lane Lester wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Yorvyk wrote:
>
> Heads up for those running Maverick. With the arrival of the new X-server
> > things could go a bit awry, if you are not careful. I’ve already messed one
> > installation up.
> >
> > http://
> Looks like this is all clear now. All the appropriate bits have hit the
> repos and th e two upgrades I’ve done are working fine.
Except if you're running the nvidia-current driver, in which case you
either have to drop back to Nouveau or jump through some hoops
involving getting the newer dri
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Bob Trevithick wrote:
> > Looks like this is all clear now. All the appropriate bits have hit the
> repos and th e two upgrades I’ve done are working fine.
>
> Except if you're running the nvidia-current driver, in which case you
> either have to drop back to Nouv
Hi Lane,
What I did, after a lot of messing around trying to get things to work, was
this:
- Log in to recovery console for root with networking
- rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- apt-get remove nvidia-current
- apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
- reboot
I think that put me back to about wha
Hi,
whilst for borked partials they may not have fully working "How-To's", it is
always worth keeping an eye on
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=385 (especially the Stickies),
during the test cycles. In this case
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195 and, yes, I've still
mana
Thanks, Bob. Regretfully, that didn't do it for me, but I'm not sure if my
problem was nvidia-related.
I let Synaptic do the update (90+ packages!), but it errored out with
problems updating python packages.
I rebooted normally, and it hung after starting cupsd. A repeat did the
same.
I rebooted
Hi Lane,
Boy, am I ever the wrong guy to ask! :-) I just blew up my second
machine of the day. This one was a Dell Mini-9 Netbook. I thought
probably the update would work on that, since it's a newer machine and
since it doesn't use the nvidia driver. Nope. Now, after the update,
it's telling
If it isn't broken,
you have not tweaked it hard enough, (signature of
> http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=80744) these things happen.
200 lines of
I will follow the warnings next time
Regards,
Phill.
P.S. a seperate /home_testing partition (not your /home) is also suggested.
I was lucky
> 200 lines of
>>
>> I will follow the warnings next time
But but but.. .. I *did* follow the warnings. :-) I thought.
Live and learn.
Already got the /home thing covered, I think. I use symbolic links
for the apps I care about, and let the rest of /home get over-written
during each install.
On Wednesday 11,August,2010 07:26 AM, Lane Lester wrote:
Thanks, Bob. Regretfully, that didn't do it for me, but I'm not sure if
my problem was nvidia-related.
I let Synaptic do the update (90+ packages!), but it errored out with
problems updating python packages.
I rebooted normally, and it hu
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Bob Trevithick wrote:
> But but but.. .. I *did* follow the warnings. :-) I
> thought.
>
> Live and learn.
>
The only warnings I saw were, "Your system may break." So you either didn't
do the upgrades and your system didn't break, or you did the upgrades and
mayb
> The only warnings I saw were, "Your system may break." So you either didn't
> do the upgrades and your system didn't break, or you did the upgrades and
> maybe your system broke.
I waited until there was a clear upgrade path, with nothing being held
back. And until others on the forums were rep
There are some solutions now being offered on
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195 for those still having
problems.
Regards,
Phill.
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Bob Trevithick wrote:
> > The only warnings I saw were, "Your system may break." So you either
> didn't
> > do the upg
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> Lane, latest update of X11-xkb-utils solved this. But of course, it would
> be no help if one cannot boot in, even to the recovery console, to do the
> upgrade. So, if you are still having the same problem booting up, append
> "nouveau.modeset=0"
On 08/12/2010 05:16 AM, Lane Lester wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Goh Lip mailto:g@gmx.com>> wrote:
Lane, latest update of X11-xkb-utils solved this. But of course, it
would be no help if one cannot boot in, even to the recovery
console, to do the upgrade. So, if you ar
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
> I think, but I am not quite sure, startx for lxde is "startlxde"
Well, I didn't get a chance to find out.
I did another apt-get update/upgrade, like I did yesterday, and this time I
also ran:
aptitude remove nvidia-current (after installing ap
On Friday 13,August,2010 12:54 AM, Lane Lester wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Goh Lip mailto:g@gmx.com>> wrote:
I think, but I am not quite sure, startx for lxde is "startlxde"
Well, I didn't get a chance to find out.
I did another apt-get update/upgrade, like I did yesterda
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
> Glad you have your Lubuntu back. That was a neat trick (remove
> nvidia-current) and may I refer your method to some guys at ubuntu having
> the same problem, (gpl v2 licence ? :) )
>
Of course. Without lists and forums, I think I would have give
To all, not withstanding Lane and I got our Lubuntu Maverick working,
please take note of the following post from the Ubuntu list
> You are going to have to use nouveau for now, the proprietary
> nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers do not work with xserver 1.9 and most
> likely will not until ri
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