2009/3/9 Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com>: > I gotta tell you, this is worse than I thought. I set the update manager > to exclude "proprietary device drivers (restricted)" and allowed it to
That wasn't wise. I'd recommend learning what things are before randomly unclicking them :) > download and install everything else, and it again totally screwed up > the machine, knocking out among other things the high-resolution > display, so I had to re-install the whole of ubuntu from the restore > disc all over again. > You didn't _have_ to, it was completely fixable with just a couple of commands. Knowing what they are is of course the issue, and I'd suggest not getting into that situation in the first place. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
