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Hmm. If that's the problem maybe I can burn a new disk from someone eles's computer. Thanks. I'll see if that works.

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root@ubuntu:~# mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /media/disk
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'
root@ubuntu:~#

Actually I tried those first, as part of the procedure I linked to.


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo /bin/bash
root@ubuntu:~# mkdir -p /media/disk
root@ubuntu:~# mount /dev/sda1 /media/disk
mount:...

Also,


root@ubuntu:~# dmesg | tail
[ 290.474779] EXT3-fs: sda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240).
[ 438.942031] EXT3-fs: sda1: couldn't mount because of...

Please help!

Situation:
- I can't get a GUI. I want to do a clean install.
- I have so many photos on my hard drive, I haven't been able to back them up on line.
- The last bootable CD I...

Please help!

Situation:
- I can't get a GUI. I want to do a clean install.
- I have so many photos on my hard drive, I haven't been able to back them up on line. I need to back them up on...

I found it in Synaptic Package Manager. It says I'm already using Nouveau, though. And it does see my driver, although today I'm stuck with this Gallium thing again.

Applying Nvidia-173, as that...

PS. http://www.geforce.com/drivers is unable to detect it, but apparently only scans Windows.

Huh. Okay, it looks like the GeForce 8300 is is still there, if I understand this, which I may not. I don't actually have the additional drivers utility, or it's not where it used to be. It's not in...

a) I don't, actually, I just know my system can't see it. I don't know how to tell, otherwise.
b) Apparently, just Vesa. I don't really understand.

Well, I still have the GtK errors, but apparently the ACTUAL problem is that my graphics card is dead. I'm not sure if I should mark this "solved" or not.

If anyone needs to know: What I had to...

Neither of those returned anything, but I did do another nvidia-purge last night and there were somehow some remnants of 319 in there even though I'd purged before.



I can no longer get to a...

OK, thanks. Say, I just noticed during boot up that "Nvidia persistence daemon" failed. Do I need to do something about that?

Edit: Oh, NOW what? I hadn't even got to changing anything, but now...

So, it looks like I now have something called Vesa instead of Nvidia, and it does not have an option for the correct resolution for my screen, which I believe is 1440x900. Apparently Vesa doesn't...

OK, I did a bunch of sh*t and now I can at least open a terminal in Guest and then log in as myself. I went in there and re-installed nvidia-current. I thought then maybe I could get to a GUI, but...

No, I was not able to open a terminal on the Guest desktop. The only thing I can access is the root through grub. Whatever I do has to be done that way.



Can you break that down for me more...

I have 3.10 but I can't use it due to all the GTK errors. I don't even know what they mean.

Hmm. I removed nvidia, rebooted, got a login loop, which I guess is progress? Last time I had that, I fixed it by changing "normal" to "nomodeset" on the grub screen, but it was already at nomodeset....

Nautilus returns:

(nautilus:2366): GtK-WARNING **: cannot open display

Which is also what I get when I try anything with gedit. I did reinstall gedit. Didn't help.

There have been two updates to the kernel since I started. The first one got rid of those "unable to fetch" errors but still no gui. Will try everything again today. I'm doing all this in root:
...

The "unable to fetch" error I was getting disappeared with the last upgrade, so I was hopeful, but I still have no GUI. Have now read dozens and dozens of threads on this. I can't do anything in...

I think maybe I found something. I've been searching the "cannot open display" error, and it looks like almost everyone who gets it refers to SSH. I don't know what SSH is. It sounds like a...

I tried this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/41681/blank-screen-after-installing-nvidia-restricted-driver
and this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1744248
But nothing is working yet. I...

Even though I'm in root? Can you tell me exactly what command I should enter please? I am doing something wrong.

I got "permission denied."