I should have made it clear that I was trying the USB stick on my
desktop machine, which has an NVIDIA GE Force 9500 GT graphics card,
prior to installing Xubuntu on the netbook
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package nvidia-glx-185 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: failed in
buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend
Hello Charlie Kravetz,
The USB memory stick is 4 Gb. It may be worth mentioning that I have
also had trouble with an NVIDIA driver on my desktop machine. This was
with Ubuntu 8.10 and the driver was an earlier one. I can't remember
which one but I thilk it was 176 (the one before the currently
rec
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Public bug reported:
I was trying Xububtu on a USB memory stick prior to installing it on my
EeePC 4G and tried to install the recommended NVIDIA driver by clicking
on "Hardware Drivers" and then clicking on "Activate" for the
recommended driver -version 185
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i38
Public bug reported:
I downloaded Ubuntu 9.04 alpha 4 to see what it is like but ran into a
problem. I posted the message below"Ask a question! section and got told
that I should have posted the question/bug report here. I don't know
whether this is a bug in 9.04 alpha 4 or not - I didn't have th
I couldn't resist the temptation to download Jaunty so I have downloaded
it and installed it on a USB memory stick and am able to use the memory
stick to boot two different computers. I changed the graphics card
driver to the 180 version and had some surprising results. On one
computer I had no pro
Hello again,
I would be happy to experiment with the current set up if there were
someone to help me get the desktop back without reinstalling Ubuntu if,
as I suspect, I end up with a machine that has lost its desktop and only
has a command line. Ubuntu is easy and painless to install - it is the
Hello,
I am reluctant to do what you suggest because after trying each of the
nvidia packages in turn, I had to reinstall Ubuntu after each failed
package because when booting with any of the packages installed I only
booted into a command line. I got various messages to the effect that I
no longe
Since posting this question I have deactivated the NVIDIA driver that
was recommended and now the computer boots without an error message.
In the course of all this, I tried all three NVIDIA drivers none of
which worked. However the recommended driver had been working fine until
the last couple of
