ON reboot I have a completely unusable desktop with a resolution of 600x400 or so. I can't select any toolbar applications because of this, I can't access the menu because of this. Last time I just reinstalled, but not again. I know for certain that my last synaptic upgrade of upgradeable packages did put in place a newer kernel and it did update the nvidia drivers, should be the proprietary nvidia driver because I originally installed it with envy.
Can anyone help ?
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Synaptic upgrade of kernel or nvidia really screwed me.
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Synaptic upgrade of kernel or nvidia really screwed me.
by brjoon1021 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:35 pm
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Re: Synaptic upgrade of kernel or nvidia really screwed me.
by DaddyX3 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:44 pm
& deselect 'backports' and 'proposed' from your software sources list for updates!!!! Your asking for trouble when you have this selected. Go to System>>Administration>>Software Sources>>Updates and make sure they are 'un-ticked' see below:
This problem was not spread to every-one. It didn't effect me what so ever. It did hit everyone with these selected though. This is not that bad of a deal - could have been a lot worse. Just be aware if you want the latest and greatest, sometimes it will reach out and bite ya
This problem was not spread to every-one. It didn't effect me what so ever. It did hit everyone with these selected though. This is not that bad of a deal - could have been a lot worse. Just be aware if you want the latest and greatest, sometimes it will reach out and bite ya
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Re: Synaptic upgrade of kernel or nvidia really screwed me.
by LeadFingers » Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:05 pm
strider5236 wrote:I would boot into grub and select recovery mode. Then choose the recover Xserver option and that should get you back into the desktop with your normal resolution. Then I would go into envy and un-install your driver, reboot and then reinstall the driver and reboot again. This should fix your problem.
Or you could save yourself a few steps:
Once in recovery mode, select Start a root shell
and add this command to start Envy
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envyng -t
from there just reinstall your drivers and reboot.
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Re: Synaptic upgrade of kernel or nvidia really screwed me.
by brjoon1021 » Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:42 pm
Thanks,
Good to go now.
Good to go now.
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