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Thanks for the links. It really is! I'm definitely enjoying it.

I haven't posted in other parts of this forum, save for the "HELP! I blew my machine up!" sections.

My experience with Ubuntu has been very positive. People most often are afraid of CHANGE....

Well, last night I successfully installed Xubuntu 14.04. I spent some time configuring it and personalizing it, adding some programs as well. It seems to handle the XFCE environment very well. I...

I like the looks of xfce, so I might give Xubuntu a try. Seems that it's light weight enough for the laptop to handle it. Won't hurt now at least, and if it still doesn't work. I could always make...

Ok, I will give it a try at home this afternoon. Seems like before I re-installed, changing from the nouveau driver to the nvidia 304 didn't change much of anything. But I'll go for it. Might as...

Do I insert "nomodeset" before, after or in place of quiet splash?

I inserted it before "quiet splash" and booted. It booted into Ubuntu, but in a low graphics mode. Seems to behave the same, but...

A friend of mine suggested asking about 'nomodeset i915' ?? I have no idea what it is, and a google search yielded several responses, but it seems a bit over my head...

I'm thinking it's a...

Yes, we're back! Ok thanks, whew! Before I gave it the command to reboot, I ran an update because it said there were package updates available. Before the reboot, there was some output about the...

Whoops! I'm posting from my phone. My desktop screen appeared quickly, with a frozen mouse pointer and no Unity. Eventually the mouse unfroze and I can move it around now, but still no Unity (no top...

Output:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"

alex@megatron:~$ ls -la /etc/modprobe.d/
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 16...

Uh oh.... Thank you Bashing for looking into this. I appreciate your time.

I suppose if it's not an issue to overcome, then I'm glad I kept that Mint 16 start up disk! I am crossing my fingers...

whoops, double posted somehow. Sorry.

output:

OpenGL vendor string: nouveauOpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV46
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.0


Not software rendered: yes
Not blacklisted: no
GLX...

Here's the output for sudo lshw -C display

*-display description: VGA compatible controller
product: G72M [GeForce Go 7400]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
...

I know it has 2GB of RAM. What I'm not sure of, if it has space for more. I have the feeling it's maxed out currently. Unless it'll accept a 4gb ram chip. I will pull off the one of the covers and...

I'm still getting the fail message before Ubuntu starts though... As well as a pretty fair degree of choppiness or slowness.

I'm going to check the other thread as well for the "waking from...

Since I have already backed up my data from this computer, and realized that with a dual boot machine, I was just copying a lot of the same settings and such in both OS's, I went ahead and...

Ok here is the output of the command you posted Bashing:


nvidia-304 installnvidia-libopencl1-304 install
nvidia-opencl-icd-304 install
nvidia-settings install

Thanks Bashing, I'll get to it this afternoon when I get home! I'll post up the output.

Thanks Varun.

Output in order

*-display description: VGA compatible controller
product: G72M [GeForce Go 7400]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus...

OOPS! I'm dumb, forgive me. I absent-mindedly just ran the command in terminal while booted into Mint (Cinnamon). Here it is again.

Linux megatron 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10...

Here is the output of:
uname -a

Linux megatron 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

solved

I'll mark this thread Solved, but it was because the dongle I bought from Amazon is what got wireless working. Thanks Chili for your time. The Compaq's fan went kapooey, so that machine is currently...