echotech2
April 21st, 2014, 02:40 PM
Note: I'm typing this in Midoro from SystemRescueCD. This disc boots and displays just fine
Graphics card is a GTX650Ti using propietary nVidia driver nvidia-current-updates v319.xx
What I did: Online update 13.10 to 14.04. This computer does NOT support boot from DVD or USB. Install went well with no (obvious) errors.
On Boot: On reboot after install completed everything went well, selected Ubuntu from GRUB, my DESKTOP opened mostly to my normal DESKTOP colours (blue>black gradient), launcher displayed OK with correct colour and icons but the top panel had a black (was blue) background with the icons displayed.
What Happens: Using Firefox as an example but this happens with all programs with a couple of exceptions. Clicking the Firefox icon in the Launcher, the desktop area turns black (except for the Launcher and top Panel). In the top Panel "Firefox Web Browser" text and Date/Time fonts change to an outline font of some kind.
Stellarium (star chart) launches and works just fine, the only program that does.
The Terminal also acts a little differently, opening it first after a reboot while I'm on correct Desktop I have the borders of it showing but the center is black.
Clicking on the Dash icon the the application icons all display OK, albeit with a black background. Selecting an application I'm back to the black Desktop.
If I open an application (e.g. Firefox) I get the two > < indicators in the Launcher (but the desktop is black), so I opened the Workplace Switcher. I get the four Workplaces, but the unused Workplaces have a black background colour. The Workplace where Firefox is has the correct gradient colour and Firefox displays in miniature as it should. Selecting that Workplace I just get the black background again.
If I click on a top Panel item, Network Manager, System Settings, etc. right after the Desktop loads and is looking OK, the drop-down menus are just a black box where the menu items should be. Choosing another top Panel icon and I now have two black boxes.
There are a couple more anomalies but they are probably related to above, and they skip my mind right now. They were probably stored in one of the 10,000 brain cells that die every day.
So I guess the question is - How do (or can) I fix it?
And a second question - How do I navigate to my hard drives using emelfm, the file manager on the SystemRescueCD?
Feel free to ask any questions, but I will be in and out all day so there may be some delay before I get back to see all the enlightening answers.......
-- Thanks, Dave.
Graphics card is a GTX650Ti using propietary nVidia driver nvidia-current-updates v319.xx
What I did: Online update 13.10 to 14.04. This computer does NOT support boot from DVD or USB. Install went well with no (obvious) errors.
On Boot: On reboot after install completed everything went well, selected Ubuntu from GRUB, my DESKTOP opened mostly to my normal DESKTOP colours (blue>black gradient), launcher displayed OK with correct colour and icons but the top panel had a black (was blue) background with the icons displayed.
What Happens: Using Firefox as an example but this happens with all programs with a couple of exceptions. Clicking the Firefox icon in the Launcher, the desktop area turns black (except for the Launcher and top Panel). In the top Panel "Firefox Web Browser" text and Date/Time fonts change to an outline font of some kind.
Stellarium (star chart) launches and works just fine, the only program that does.
The Terminal also acts a little differently, opening it first after a reboot while I'm on correct Desktop I have the borders of it showing but the center is black.
Clicking on the Dash icon the the application icons all display OK, albeit with a black background. Selecting an application I'm back to the black Desktop.
If I open an application (e.g. Firefox) I get the two > < indicators in the Launcher (but the desktop is black), so I opened the Workplace Switcher. I get the four Workplaces, but the unused Workplaces have a black background colour. The Workplace where Firefox is has the correct gradient colour and Firefox displays in miniature as it should. Selecting that Workplace I just get the black background again.
If I click on a top Panel item, Network Manager, System Settings, etc. right after the Desktop loads and is looking OK, the drop-down menus are just a black box where the menu items should be. Choosing another top Panel icon and I now have two black boxes.
There are a couple more anomalies but they are probably related to above, and they skip my mind right now. They were probably stored in one of the 10,000 brain cells that die every day.
So I guess the question is - How do (or can) I fix it?
And a second question - How do I navigate to my hard drives using emelfm, the file manager on the SystemRescueCD?
Feel free to ask any questions, but I will be in and out all day so there may be some delay before I get back to see all the enlightening answers.......
-- Thanks, Dave.