gnormal
July 18th, 2014, 01:16 PM
- after upgrade 12.04 to 14.04 things seemed a bit unstable. i read around and was (am) convinced i should stick with 14.04 but change to xubuntu on this ol` weezer box.
- I followed these directions. (https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/alternative)
- I had it working.
- the final step on that page sent me to a list of nice mods. the first mod was to update xubuntu. i did. i ALSO SIMULTANEOUSLY updated to the nvidia driver in the system preferences instead of the generic. so, i waited for both processes to finish downloading and installing. afterward, there were TWO dialog boxes (as expected) prompting me to restart. so i restarted and since then, can not make it to the desktop. :(( (i now know i should not have done that.)
- heres what happens, in order:
- 1 "this session is gonna be low-res mode. fix it yourself." (http://i.imgur.com/NuBaI8C.jpg)
- 2 "im going in- low res is fine. just going to select nvidia myself in prefs." (http://i.imgur.com/nXbwzxO.jpg)
- 3 "ok here goes the temporary low res session... hold on..." (http://i.imgur.com/jLdBtII.jpg)
- 4 -fail- cursor just blinks and wont go any farther. (http://i.imgur.com/uEwG3Qn.jpg)
- i already tried apt-get install --reinstall xubuntu-desktop, grub failsafe video, reinstalled other stuff. over the course of the last 4 hrs.... i feel like im close...
- im hoping that jockey-text command could help to stick the generic neuveau driver back in for now, but that cammand is not found, and apt-get install jockey-text didnt work. thats about the level i am with ubuntu. im comfortable in linux but not with hardware drivers or any particular flavors.
my fix has to be via command line. i can still get to command line with ctrl-alt-f1 when its displaying one of the 3 dialog boxes above.
"lspci | grep VGA" reports that i have a G84GL Quadro FX 1700.
any ideas? i dont mind reinstalling anything short of the whole os. i dont want to do a clean install back to 12.04 because the whole system is just fine, sitting there, if only it could display.
thanks
- I followed these directions. (https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/alternative)
- I had it working.
- the final step on that page sent me to a list of nice mods. the first mod was to update xubuntu. i did. i ALSO SIMULTANEOUSLY updated to the nvidia driver in the system preferences instead of the generic. so, i waited for both processes to finish downloading and installing. afterward, there were TWO dialog boxes (as expected) prompting me to restart. so i restarted and since then, can not make it to the desktop. :(( (i now know i should not have done that.)
- heres what happens, in order:
- 1 "this session is gonna be low-res mode. fix it yourself." (http://i.imgur.com/NuBaI8C.jpg)
- 2 "im going in- low res is fine. just going to select nvidia myself in prefs." (http://i.imgur.com/nXbwzxO.jpg)
- 3 "ok here goes the temporary low res session... hold on..." (http://i.imgur.com/jLdBtII.jpg)
- 4 -fail- cursor just blinks and wont go any farther. (http://i.imgur.com/uEwG3Qn.jpg)
- i already tried apt-get install --reinstall xubuntu-desktop, grub failsafe video, reinstalled other stuff. over the course of the last 4 hrs.... i feel like im close...
- im hoping that jockey-text command could help to stick the generic neuveau driver back in for now, but that cammand is not found, and apt-get install jockey-text didnt work. thats about the level i am with ubuntu. im comfortable in linux but not with hardware drivers or any particular flavors.
my fix has to be via command line. i can still get to command line with ctrl-alt-f1 when its displaying one of the 3 dialog boxes above.
"lspci | grep VGA" reports that i have a G84GL Quadro FX 1700.
any ideas? i dont mind reinstalling anything short of the whole os. i dont want to do a clean install back to 12.04 because the whole system is just fine, sitting there, if only it could display.
thanks