If I was running a consistent and up to date version of the OS, the situation wouldn't arise in which I would be tempted to uncheck the drivers updates option.
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 09:19 +0000, Sean Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > > 2009/3/9 Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net>: > >> I will repeat my previous advice -- forget "restore disc", install > >> from 8.10 instead. > >> > > > > That wouldn't help in this case. If he was running 8.10 vanilla and > > unticked 'restricted' he'd end up in pretty much the same place. It's > > not the install disc, it's the user that's at fault in this case. > > Ah, hadn't spotted that... true... still am of the opinion, though, > that if he's still at the stage where he can re-install (or "restore" > or whatever) without losing things he'd do better with a more > up-to-date, and "vanilla", install. > > Half this problem seems, to me at least, to be to do with Rowan having > lost confidence in the whole setup of his machine. > > Installing 8.10 and finding his machine works like magic may restore > some of that. > > Sean > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
