Land Rover Series 3
November 25th, 2009, 12:50 AM
I did a completely fresh re-install of Ubuntu from DVD, got my wireless connection going, went into Administration>Update Manager, did a refresh, and it came up with a big list of updates. Selected to update everything suggested, and it just got on with it. Did a reboot at the end. Versions 14 and 15 of the kernel were once again showing in Grub, with 15 as the default. Booted up perfectly, with no problems whatsoever.
I can only think that this time I did all this BEFORE I installed the nVidia driver for my graphics card. Maybe that was the problem I was having before?
Haven't got round to doing the nVidia driver installation yet, but it seems that (a) there is no intrinsic problem with kernel v.15 (that I am now aware of), and (b) it was obviously not the Synaptic Package Manager or the Update Manager that were causing the previous problems - more likely the fact that I was updating with an already-installed nVidia hardware driver??
Just wondering if future upgrades are likely to require a pre-upgrade uninstall of nVidia, followed by the upgrade, followed by a reinstall of nVidia. Guess time will tell.
I can only think that this time I did all this BEFORE I installed the nVidia driver for my graphics card. Maybe that was the problem I was having before?
Haven't got round to doing the nVidia driver installation yet, but it seems that (a) there is no intrinsic problem with kernel v.15 (that I am now aware of), and (b) it was obviously not the Synaptic Package Manager or the Update Manager that were causing the previous problems - more likely the fact that I was updating with an already-installed nVidia hardware driver??
Just wondering if future upgrades are likely to require a pre-upgrade uninstall of nVidia, followed by the upgrade, followed by a reinstall of nVidia. Guess time will tell.