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    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by joeelmex, Jul 28, 2009.

  1. joeelmex

    joeelmex Notebook Evangelist

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    Well today after playing some penny arcade, I saw that Ubuntu had a couple of updates to do. I go through them and see nothing that should concern me. After it updates it wants to reboot and I let it. Next time the PC REboots boom, I get all type of errors re-loading the X file and then had to reset to default. At the end I had to un-install the older NVIDIA drivers and then reinstall it. After doing that I am on a working computer. Whatever it installed screwed up my graphics drivers and now my LCD on my G50VT is not working no more. Ill see if I can get that working now. Cant believe a couple of small updates screwed up my pc that much.

    The only bright side about all of this, nvidia released new drivers 185.18.29, i believe the older ones where .19 at the end.

    Now to going back to get my LCD to start working now.

    I got the LCd working again, had to re-follow the process of AllurGroceries to get it installed again. I am somewhat amazed how a couple of small updates did so much damage to the computer. Hmm makes me wonder if I should ignore the updates we get every couple of days.
     
    joeelmex, Jul 28, 2009
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  2. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Wow. I've never had anything screwed up by installing all the recommended updates. Hmmm. I just installed a bunch, and now I'm asked to restart.

    Thanks to you, now I'm nervous about this... :rolleyes: :p
     
    pixelot, Jul 28, 2009
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  3. The Fire Snake

    The Fire Snake Notebook Virtuoso

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    If memory serves me right some updates to the X windows system have caused problems like this in the past(~1 year ago) with Ubuntu. Not sure if your updates had similar issues.
     
    The Fire Snake, Jul 28, 2009
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  4. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    I think that probably happened because nvidia-glx was installed and got updated, it will overwrite the manually installed drivers because they share the same files. You can either put a hold on the package to prevent it from updating, or better, purge it and then reinstall the drivers manually and you should never have this problem again. :)
     
    ALLurGroceries, Jul 29, 2009
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  5. FrX

    FrX Notebook Geek

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    you probably enabled unstable repository or I guess you have too many repositories that got you this problem in the first place
     
    FrX, Jul 29, 2009
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  6. joeelmex

    joeelmex Notebook Evangelist

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    Dont have unstable repositories enabled, actually just added the Wine and some other things to get the dvd to work. Nothing out of the ordinary. Hehe I just got some more updates lol.
     
    joeelmex, Jul 29, 2009
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