Frostek
November 5th, 2008, 10:05 PM
Well, I've had no problems with previous upgrades, but this one hasn't gone too smoothly. Took about 2 hours to download all the needed files and about 3.5 hours to install them. Unfortunately, 45 minutes from the end of installing all the files it encountered a problem. Not sure what this was as it didn't really explain itself. (There were some odd dialogue boxes much earlier mentioning MySQL that popped up but I don't know if they're connected to my problems.)
It then decided to roll back to Hardy to get around this.
Once complete, after a reboot I seem to be running a damaged version of Ibex and not Hardy at all.
Issues are as follows -
1. No sound - OS doesn't even seem to know what a soundcard is anymore. I had a poke around and there's quite a few folders I'd expect to see missing.
2. No DVD playback - because no soundcard is working.
3. UVC webcam not working in any application, Skype, Cheese and so on.
4. Video driver issues- screen resolutions not being retained and cannot use the NVidia 3D graphics driver.
I've not really had any success in repairing these.
Is there a way to run a "refresh" on the system by installing Ibex off a CD without having to reformat? I've Googled for this for a few days and not found anything that mentions it in enough detail for me to risk my files.
All my files are in one partition, so obviously formatting would mean I lose everything. If I can get this sorted, I'm going to get things better organised and have separate partitions for home folders and the OS.
Can anyone suggest my next best move?
It then decided to roll back to Hardy to get around this.
Once complete, after a reboot I seem to be running a damaged version of Ibex and not Hardy at all.
Issues are as follows -
1. No sound - OS doesn't even seem to know what a soundcard is anymore. I had a poke around and there's quite a few folders I'd expect to see missing.
2. No DVD playback - because no soundcard is working.
3. UVC webcam not working in any application, Skype, Cheese and so on.
4. Video driver issues- screen resolutions not being retained and cannot use the NVidia 3D graphics driver.
I've not really had any success in repairing these.
Is there a way to run a "refresh" on the system by installing Ibex off a CD without having to reformat? I've Googled for this for a few days and not found anything that mentions it in enough detail for me to risk my files.
All my files are in one partition, so obviously formatting would mean I lose everything. If I can get this sorted, I'm going to get things better organised and have separate partitions for home folders and the OS.
Can anyone suggest my next best move?