Ok, so my aunt (in her early 80's) dual boots windies and Kubuntu
She read some stuff about 8.10/KDE 4 etc and asked me to upgrade it for her.
Now, using a "factory supplied" disc (courtesy of "shipit") it seems to install fine, but by the time that we've done the updates it seems to just refuse to start the X server with a "no screens found" error.
It doesn't seem to matter whether we try the 173 or 177 driver, it just won't start.
The option of enabling "restricted drivers" for the system doesn't want to download the driver. If I just select all the nvidia bits via synaptic it sometimes just sticks during the boot up freezing the system.
If I then look at the xorg.conf to see if it's trying to use the nvidia driver, it's really strange as the file seems to be full of notes but when you get down to the business sections it just seems to say stuff like
" and
. It's as if a whole swathe of stuff hasn't been included in the xorg.conf
If I look at my own xorg.conf at home there's a mountain of entries (some I understand and some not) but they're there, whereas on my aunts system they not - it's as if they've moved half of the config info to other files - of course it might be my lack of technical ability to understand WTF's actually going on.
Is it just the case of doing a re-install, then using a package manager - removing all entries to nvidia with that and then downloading the kernel headers for the latest kernel and getting newest driver from the nvidia site and manually installing it ?
I'm really confused about this as I've not had such problems before so any guidance would be brilliant.
regards
fatbloke
She read some stuff about 8.10/KDE 4 etc and asked me to upgrade it for her.
Now, using a "factory supplied" disc (courtesy of "shipit") it seems to install fine, but by the time that we've done the updates it seems to just refuse to start the X server with a "no screens found" error.
It doesn't seem to matter whether we try the 173 or 177 driver, it just won't start.
The option of enabling "restricted drivers" for the system doesn't want to download the driver. If I just select all the nvidia bits via synaptic it sometimes just sticks during the boot up freezing the system.
If I then look at the xorg.conf to see if it's trying to use the nvidia driver, it's really strange as the file seems to be full of notes but when you get down to the business sections it just seems to say stuff like
Device "configured device
Monitor "configured monitor"
If I look at my own xorg.conf at home there's a mountain of entries (some I understand and some not) but they're there, whereas on my aunts system they not - it's as if they've moved half of the config info to other files - of course it might be my lack of technical ability to understand WTF's actually going on.
Is it just the case of doing a re-install, then using a package manager - removing all entries to nvidia with that and then downloading the kernel headers for the latest kernel and getting newest driver from the nvidia site and manually installing it ?
I'm really confused about this as I've not had such problems before so any guidance would be brilliant.
regards
fatbloke
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