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[Jarra <suhrawardi@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see that I didn't do a reply all, so this one is to the mailing list
as well..

This mailing list might be a good warning place I think. A lot of people
will look here first I asume.
And chrooting is not something a fresh Ubuntu user should have to do.. ;-)

What about filing a bug? The restricted drivers shouldn't be offered if
they don't work. WDYT?


On 06/17/2010 09:00 PM, Willem Ligtenberg wrote:
> I used chroot, to remove drivers and move xorg.conf.
> And now it is working again.
> Is there a place we can all edit, to make sure that new people who did
> find this group first (as I did) are warned? :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> So far really like the laptop!
>
> Willem
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 20:54, Jarra <suhrawardi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had the same problem. I reinstalled Ubuntu and am now using de normal
>> drivers, which work very well.
>>
>> You may be able to chroot into your UL30JT, and uninstall the driver or
>> modify the xorg.conf file. But saying that, I haven't tried that, I just
>> expect that might work as well.
>> I choose to reinstall the whole thing, as it happened after a fresh
>> install, so I wasn't losing anything.
>>
>> And on a sidenote, I didn't get suspend working yet....
>> and the webcam is upside down, as with most asus laptops...
>>
>> But for the rest, Ubuntu runs great on this wonderful laptop....
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Jarra
>>
>> On 06/17/2010 08:27 PM, Willem Ligtenberg wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just bought an UL30JT. Installed ubuntu, no problems. Ran updates and
>>> rebooted, no problems. Installed restricted driver for the nvidia card
>>> and rebooted. Result is a black screen.
>>> I also cannot switch to TTY1-6 using control+alt+F1...
>>> Recovery mode gives a few lines of text and then ends up with the same
>>> black screen. I would revert to the normal drivers if I could someow
>>> get to a terminal.
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Cheers,ey
>>>
>>> Willem
>>>
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