joneslh
December 12th, 2009, 11:40 AM
As I had a good stable system over many upgrades I decided to install the 10.04 upgrade that was offered this wee - BAD DECISION. :(The upgrade process went without any problems and I rebooted the machine as directed. On boot-up I was preseted with an error message that the machine could not find a video drive. I am using a Nvida GE8400GS Graphics card with the 185 driver which worked perfectly on 9.10.
Using the low resolution graphics option I found that the 185 Nvida drivers had not been loaded despite being checked in the package manager. I tried to activate the 185 driver and got an error message that the load could not be sucessfully completed.
I now have access to the machine via terminal sessions only and wondering the best way forward. Can I recover the 10.04 to work with my Nvida card or should I reload 9.10. Not having a 9.10 on disc how can I reload from the internet with terminal session commands. Does anything need to be purged before reloading 9.10 ? Can anyone help to restore my Linux machine to it's former stable state.:(
Needless to say I will not be installing pre-release upgrades again.
Using the low resolution graphics option I found that the 185 Nvida drivers had not been loaded despite being checked in the package manager. I tried to activate the 185 driver and got an error message that the load could not be sucessfully completed.
I now have access to the machine via terminal sessions only and wondering the best way forward. Can I recover the 10.04 to work with my Nvida card or should I reload 9.10. Not having a 9.10 on disc how can I reload from the internet with terminal session commands. Does anything need to be purged before reloading 9.10 ? Can anyone help to restore my Linux machine to it's former stable state.:(
Needless to say I will not be installing pre-release upgrades again.