Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
On 06/06/10 17:47, John Stevenson wrote: It sounds like you are running the open source driver for your graphics card and not the nvidia closed source driver. The open source driver does not support 3D, but should work well as a desktop in all other respects. In System > Administration > Har

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-06-06 Thread Alan Bell
pmgazz wrote: > On 05/06/10 14:32, Alan Bell wrote: > >> where? and do join #ubuntu-uk. >> >> > #fossbox - but it's not really used nope, it isn't! > > Yes, if one has a bot/time to build, agree and deploy a bot - I used to > run channels on Dalnet using chan bots - but 'newbie' IRC us

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Stevenson
On 6 June 2010 17:33, John Matthews wrote: > On 06/06/10 17:19, John Stevenson wrote: > > > If you are still having a problem, then it only confirms your configs were > updated. Have you restarted your desktop, you can do that by login out and > loging back in again. > > If you are still having

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread Tony Pursell
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 17:33 +0100, John Matthews wrote: > On 06/06/10 17:19, John Stevenson wrote: > > > > If you are still having a problem, then it only confirms your > > configs were updated. Have you restarted your desktop, you can do > > that by login out and loging back in again. > > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
On 06/06/10 17:19, John Stevenson wrote: If you are still having a problem, then it only confirms your configs were updated. Have you restarted your desktop, you can do that by login out and loging back in again. If you are still having problems, is the only problem that you cant run the n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Stevenson
On 6 June 2010 13:09, John Matthews wrote: > On 06/06/10 12:11, John Stevenson wrote: > > It could be that the update changed the configuration, if so this is a > > bug. You can check by looking at the time stamps for the file > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if it is the same time as you update.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
On 06/06/10 12:11, John Stevenson wrote: > It could be that the update changed the configuration, if so this is a > bug. You can check by looking at the time stamps for the file > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if it is the same time as you update. > > In a terminal window, type the following comman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-06-06 Thread pmgazz
On 05/06/10 14:32, Alan Bell wrote: > > where? and do join #ubuntu-uk. > #fossbox - but it's not really used >> >> > I don't tend to see joins and parts happening, but it is perfectly > possible to have a bot in a channel that greets people the first time it > has seen them. (not sure w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Stevenson
On 6 June 2010 11:06, John Matthews wrote: > My invidia card her been working ok for ages now, but suddenly I get an > update, go to reboot andit now wont work. When I click on the invidia > link in System Administration, it now tells me > > 'You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X drivier. Pl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread Daniel M. Drummond
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 11:06 +0100, John Matthews wrote: > just run 'nvidia-config' as root and restart the > server. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread John Matthews
My invidia card her been working ok for ages now, but suddenly I get an update, go to reboot andit now wont work. When I click on the invidia link in System Administration, it now tells me 'You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X drivier. Please edit your x configuration file (just run 'nvid