Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beware updating to latest nvidia experimental driver

2013-02-17 Thread Barry Drake
On 16/02/13 19:37, SuperEngineer wrote: To avoid borking your system, Beware updating to latest experimental nvidia driver just because Steam asks you to! Go to 304 - no higher. Can confirm this. If you do it by mistake you can get your system back by getting up a terminal (ctrl+alt+F1) and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beware updating to latest nvidia experimental driver

2013-02-17 Thread Bill Baker
On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 10:36 +, Barry Drake wrote: > Can confirm this. If you do it by mistake you can get your system > back... Thanks, Barry - I'm glad I'm not the only one - and your way out sounds so much easier than the one it took me till 1.30 this morning to resolve!! I'll save your ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

2013-02-17 Thread Rowan Berkeley
My friend in Denmark has finally got into the BIOS on her Fujitsu machine (the one on she installed Ubuntu to replace Windows 8 without making the necessary alterations in the BIOS settings first), by hitting F2 when she sees the Fujitsu logo. She has sent me a series of photos of the screens.