Re: Ubuntu upgrade help

On 11-04-21 02:54 PM, Joe Burpee wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 14:11:44 -0400, Andy Civil wrote:
>> On 11-04-21 10:38 AM, Joe Burpee wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> You might want to take a look at
>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/?src=api
>>>
>>
>> That worked perfectly, thank you!
>
> Great. I can't take credit though. Someone else suggested it back in
> March.  http://oclug.on.ca/archives/linux/2011-March/002968.html
>
> FWIW my main issue thru various dist upgrades on my laptop was the
> 64/32-bit wrappers. Recently I've been using Chromium browser and the
> preview release 64-bit flash just works.

I sort of spoke too soon. Stuff is working, but there's weirdness I'd 
like to understand. Anyone who has spare time to help, please read my 
description, while you're reading it, my questions are "is my NVidia 
driver working" and "can I improve my video performance" and a general 
sense of what's going on.

The broken implementation of pulseaudio in Ubuntu 8 caused me to upgrade 
to Ubuntu 10. This broke Flash, but Joe's tip brought it back.

I have two similar computers, single core 2 gigahertz machines, the 
other is running windoze. My family plays games such as webkinz and 
webkinznews; they report that they have to switch to the windoze machine 
for one, otherwise it runs so slowly that they fail games due to expiry, 
but perversely the other works better on Ubuntu.

When I originally installed the NVidia driver, I got a reassuring NVidia 
logo when it loaded, but I no longer see that on Ubuntu 10. If I type 
"sudo ps -elf | grep -i nv" I find no process running that has "nv" in 
it, save the grep itself.

If I go "system - administration - NVidia X server settings" I get an 
error dialog that says: > You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X 
driver.  Please edit your X configuration file (just run 
`nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

if I do this, a file called "xorg.conf" is created in /etc. From that 
point, everything is broken. When I boot up, I get a screen of the wrong 
resolution telling me that no screens are available. There are several 
options to fix this, none of them work. If I do something that locks up 
the computer, I have to press the hardware reset button; at that point 
the file "xorg.conf" is gone, and the screen works again as normal.

Any help or tips would be appreciated.

-- 
Andy

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