Linux Mint 8

[Chipfryer]

This morning I decided to upgrade.
Notice the pause.....

Anyway having come from Ubuntu to Mint 7 which was a dream come true I find myself back with the headaches of Ubuntu. As I understand it repositories are used from Ubuntu which is widely known of course.
All morning long I've tried to fix this infernal screen resolution problem with Nvidia. I've tried just about everything I've found too. It's infuriating to a muso I'm sure you'll all agree with me on that this is wasting valuable time. Linux Mint is fabulous, I prefer 7 now of course though I do expect flash and web scripts will run much quicker once this problem is solved.

Anyway sometime I'll be back to asking typical music questions, when that will be I don't really know at this point.

[autostatic]

Bugger

That's why I never do an upgrade, only clean installs. Hopefully you manage to get it up and running quickly again.

[Chipfryer]

Hi Auto.
No this was a clean take. It keeps asking for Nvidia drivers and I have a ATI Radeon card.
I've had this only once. When choosing to use Karmic Koala (Ubuntu). Great app of course but it gave me so many headaches I dumped it for Mint 7. I'm going back to that tomorrow, it really is a great distro. The best I've found to be honest.

Bugger

That's why I never do an upgrade, only clean installs. Hopefully you manage to get it up and running quickly again.

[Pablo]

Hi Chipfryer.
Graphical problems are highly irritating, I agree. Yesterday I did a ubuntu 9.10 installation and I encountered problems with the graphics as well. There are several ways you can try to fix this. I suggest envyng. Write this down as you won't have a graphic interface:

Start ubuntu (or linux mint) and go to the first shell by typing: Ctrl + Alt + F1
Enter your user name and password
sudo bash
enter your password
apt-get install envyng-gtk
envyng -t
Choose your option

This should install the needed dependencies and the nvidia or ATI driver.

If you have problems, check ubuntuforums and/or linux mint forums and don't forget that it is VERY important that you know what do you have inside your computer, especially when you ask for help. For a video card, the output of:

lspci |grep -i vga (or just 'lspci' and filter the line manually)

will tell you what graphic card you have installed. nvidia, ATI..., yes. and... what more? Vendor is not enough. There are many different models. Tell the world so the world can help you.

Good luck and come back to the music soon! Pablo

[Chipfryer]

Thanks Pablo. Sorry I was just stressed yesterday which doesn't help anyone does it. I did run lspci and have posted same over at mint. Here is what I have installed. No rush I'm calm
Funny how you miss Linux once you've used it for a long time isn't it. No worries and apologies.

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00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb Host Bridge (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce 250Gb PCI System Management (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Parallel ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2)
00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Serial ATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)