[ubuntu-uk] Viglen MPC-L Podcast Offer

2008-10-01 Thread Ian Pascoe
Folks Thought I'd miss the end of the above offer, which was due to expire yesterday. However, phoned up today and ordered my discounted MPC-L to be told as well that the offer has been extended. Good work U-UK podcasters for negoiating this offer! So, if you've diddled and daddled over whether

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hi Seif Before going down the new PSU route, do you have any power conditioners on the mains supply to your box? If not, that would certainly be the next purchase I'd recommend, followed by the PSU afterwards. To my inexperienced eyes, if a full power off and break with mains is required to rese

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mythbuntu crashes with Nvidia driver

2008-10-01 Thread Dave Morley
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 15:42 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote: > Ken > > Not that i've ever tried it, but you may try having a look at Envy. Its > supposed to help install/configure NVidia and (i think) ATI cards. > > sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk > http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mythbuntu crashes with Nvidia driver

2008-10-01 Thread Michael Holloway
Ken Not that i've ever tried it, but you may try having a look at Envy. Its supposed to help install/configure NVidia and (i think) ATI cards. sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html Cheers, Michael On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 15:14 +0100, Ken Robson wrote: > I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mythbuntu crashes with Nvidia driver

2008-10-01 Thread Steve Flynn
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Ken Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to build a Myth-Tv setup, I have a new board cpu and a > second-hand Nvidia 5200 with dvi output. > > Installing with the standard vesa driver works fine, but when I install > the restricted mode driver and reboot i

[ubuntu-uk] Mythbuntu crashes with Nvidia driver

2008-10-01 Thread Ken Robson
I am trying to build a Myth-Tv setup, I have a new board cpu and a second-hand Nvidia 5200 with dvi output. Installing with the standard vesa driver works fine, but when I install the restricted mode driver and reboot it crashes/hangs on x startup. Any ideas where I should start looking for iss

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Renjith Nair
>From your reply it seems the first RAM module or PSU may be faulty. Last year i had a similar problem with my system. I did memtests, cpuburndown tests etc. None of the logs gave any clue about what was going on . Then in one of the forums i found that somebody got around the problem by disabling

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Rob Beard
Seif Attar wrote: > me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic > didn't fix it, the last crash happened while I was installing stuff with > synaptic, nothing in the logs. > > After the crash I pressed the reset button, and then it froze while the > grub menu was showing, r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Rowson
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Seif Attar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic > didn't fix it, the last crash happened while I was installing stuff with > synaptic, nothing in the logs. > > After the crash I pressed the reset button, an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Seif Attar
me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic didn't fix it, the last crash happened while I was installing stuff with synaptic, nothing in the logs. After the crash I pressed the reset button, and then it froze while the grub menu was showing, restarted, it froze after I sel