Brief vent: I left Windows in '08 with plans of never looking back. Things progressed nicely through the years up to Ubuntu 12.04. I even purchased a System76 to reaffirm my dedication. Then, 13.04 came along and I upgraded, but my ability to see my dual monitor vanished. Previously, I would have looked at this as a minor Linux challenge, but on about the 4th day of trying I was now losing time on work I had to complete. In frustration, I dropped back down to 12.04 and all was well. Then, Synaptic unexpectedly updated the video driver in my 12.04 install and my dual monitor was gone again. I was also presented with the opportunity to upgrade to 14.04, so in hopes that driver problem was fixed in this version, I upgraded. As nice as it looked, like 13.04, dual monitoring was not available OOB in 14.04, so I dropped back down to 12.04 and all is right with the world...with the exception of the 357 packages that need to be updated in Synaptic. I don't want to update though, since I know my video driver will get whacked and I'll lose my dual monitor.
**ATTENTION SYSTEM76: NO THANKS TO YOU FOR COMING OUT WITH SOME LEVEL OF SUPPORT ON THIS!
With no real time available to become the level of Linux admin I'd really like to be, my only alternative is to try to block the update to the driver while allowing updates to everything else. I just don't know how.
Can someone please explain?
Thanks in advance,
Rob
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