Thanks Vinu - that tends to confirm what I'd thought. Helps when you get
it confirmed!
I'm assuming that provided I've backed up all of my home directory -
including all the hidden files - I will have got everything working
again when I've reinstalled Ubuntu, including all my e-mails. I can
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to my scrambled screen issue.
I've almost come to the conclusion that the quickest way to get
everything back to full functionality would be to reinstall Ubuntu 8.04.
I've taken on-board two key issues (I think) that ought to retain all of
the information
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Greg Herdman wrote:
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to my scrambled screen issue.
I've almost come to the conclusion that the quickest way to get
everything back to full functionality would be to reinstall Ubuntu 8.04.
I've taken
Hi Everyone,
Back to my scrambled screen system - I've been functioning via Live User
DVD now for several weeks. I suppose my basic question - skirted around
via a number of little excursions - is, 'If I reinstall Ubuntu (8.04)
will my system 'remember' all of the material I've created and/or
2009/6/10 Greg Herdman gherd...@toucansurf.com:
Hi Everyone,
Back to my scrambled screen system - I've been functioning via Live User
DVD now for several weeks. I suppose my basic question - skirted around
via a number of little excursions - is, 'If I reinstall Ubuntu (8.04)
will my system
Neil Greenwood wrote:
2009/6/10 Greg Herdman gherd...@toucansurf.com:
Hi Everyone,
Back to my scrambled screen system - I've been functioning via Live User
DVD now for several weeks. I suppose my basic question - skirted around
via a number of little excursions - is, 'If I reinstall
Hi Rob Neil,
I have no problem accessing my hard disc from Live DVD - I can read and
write everything from the disc once I've set myself up as a new user. As
far as I'm aware, everything is in one partition - in other words, no
partitioning of the hard drive.
If anyone hasn't used Live User
Greg Herdman wrote:
Hi Rob Neil,
I have no problem accessing my hard disc from Live DVD - I can read and
write everything from the disc once I've set myself up as a new user. As
far as I'm aware, everything is in one partition - in other words, no
partitioning of the hard drive.
If
Rob Beard wrote:
snip
This guide might be helpful when coming to reinstalling too, it explains
how to install Ubuntu by creating a separate home partition. It's aimed
at Intrepid (8.10) but from what I can remember the installation program
is pretty much the same.
Hope this helps
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 16:30 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
Greg Herdman wrote:
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Now I haven't used Gramps personally but what you can do to make sure
you don't loose your Gramps data is to install Gramps whilst running on
the live CD, go into the home directory on your hard drive, press CTRL
I'm sorry if I've missed something here, but why can't the scrambled screen be
fixed ?
He had an error message about a missing nvidia driver.
All this windows talk of reinstalling. Granted it's quicker.
I know there is an evil linux genius amongst you who can fix it. I'd do it
myself but I'm
2009/6/10 ged byrom ged.by...@ntlworld.com:
I'm sorry if I've missed something here, but why can't the scrambled screen
be fixed ?
He had an error message about a missing nvidia driver.
All this windows talk of reinstalling. Granted it's quicker.
I know there is an evil linux genius amongst
I've just run:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
to reset my xorg.conf file automatically. I had followed instructions to get
graphics stable. The instructions had worked but I had giant font in login
windows and some apps.
Is that command of no use to Greg to return his xorg.conf file
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 19:14 +0100, ged byrom wrote:
I've just run:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
to reset my xorg.conf file automatically. I had followed instructions to get
graphics stable. The instructions had worked but I had giant font in login
windows and some apps.
Is
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:30:22 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 19:14 +0100, ged byrom wrote:
I've just run:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
to reset my xorg.conf file automatically. I had followed instructions to
get graphics stable. The
Thanks for the tips - still need my hand held!
I backed up my home directory a while ago - I think I did it through
Nautilus / Brasero - but wasn't aware that there might be hidden files.
I've not been able to find where GRAMPS saves its data although I have
found a lot of its material in
2009/6/3 Greg Herdman gherd...@toucansurf.com:
Thanks for the tips - still need my hand held!
I backed up my home directory a while ago - I think I did it through
Nautilus / Brasero - but wasn't aware that there might be hidden files.
I've not been able to find where GRAMPS saves its data
Thanks Guy,
I followed your second suggestion - using Live CD to examine Xorg.0.log.
I found the following error flag:
Failed to initialise GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X dribver not
found)
That was the only entry.
What is the significance of the other log files (Xorg.0.log.old,
Hi Greg,
To try and address your original problem:
Do you get any errors displayed when your screen scrambles?
Try dropping to a terminal by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1
Log in
Type in tail -n50 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Look for any lines that start (EE)
These lines and the ones directly before and after
Hi Everyone,
I'm really new to the Ubuntu scene; got involved about 6 months ago.
Everything has been working fine until a recent update session. An
incomplete update was signalled (I 'd just installed ClamTk and PiTiVi a
day or so earlier. At first the screen dropped into 'basic' low-res
On Sun, 17 May 2009 08:29:07 +0100, Greg Herdman gherd...@toucansurf.com
wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'm really new to the Ubuntu scene; got involved about 6 months ago.
Everything has been working fine until a recent update session. An
incomplete update was signalled (I 'd just installed ClamTk and
2009/5/17 Daniel Rhodes-Mumby daniel.rhodes.mu...@googlemail.com:
On Sun, 17 May 2009 08:29:07 +0100, Greg Herdman gherd...@toucansurf.com
wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'm really new to the Ubuntu scene; got involved about 6 months ago.
Everything has been working fine until a recent update session.
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