On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:09:42 -0600, you wrote: >On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:47:58AM +0000, Steve Blackmore wrote: >> Do you know if you can reinstall off the cd without loosing your user >> directories? > >If you accepted the default disk partitioning proposed by Ubuntu (which >places all files, including the OS and home directories, on a single >partition), then reinstalling with the install CD will indeed erase your >home directory. > > WARNING: This will destroy all data on any partitions you have > removed as well as on the partitions that are going to be formatted. > http://www.linuxdynasty.org/images/stories/distros/ubuntu/install6.png > >Before installing from the install CD back up any data that you care >about and restore it afterwords.
Thankfully I managed to recover the system, by accident, more than by design :) I installed EnvyNG, which installed the proprietary NVidia drivers, and the needed libraries which got OpenGL working again. One of the restricted libraries must have been screwed up. However the latest NVidia driver has terrible latency, system went from 12000 to 70000!! Then changed to Vesa driver, latency dropped to an even better 6000 :) OpenGL doesn't work properly in full screen mode with Vesa driver at 1024x768, preview of GLXGears works in a window, but doesn't display anything at full screen. However that seems to have no detrimental effect to Axis or EMC, all seems to work fine so far. I won't have a screensaver enabled on a CNC control so it's no loss, and if it does show a problem later I think I can get the NVidia GLX driver working again. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
