Re: final gtk+maverick battles

[David Marceau <uticdmarceau2007 yahoo ca>]

On 02/16/2014 06:30 AM, Bric wrote:
> My old system was, indeed, trashed.  An accidental re-boot proved that
> it wasn't going into GUI mode anymore.  Thus, I upgraded, and am now on
> Ubuntu 12.

Now upgrade a few more times to get to trusty(14.04) to get the latest
bells and whistles.  Then there are recipes to get trusty with the
latest GNOME available through some extra ppa's repositories.  Then you
can install proprietary graphics display drivers as final step.

HINT: BE PATIENT.  Never reboot or control-C during the install/upgrade.
 Just let it do its thing.  One of the slowest parts of the
install/upgrade is always the graphics chipset hardware identification
and resolution capability testing.  That's why it takes so long and
especially on older hardware.  It will flicker a lot.  Just wait until
it settles on a certain resolution or it comes back on its own to the
text-mode console.  Go for a coffee or something.

HINT: BE PATIENT.  There are possibly disk error checks done when
upgrading which also cause for slower bootup sequences.  Don't reboot or
control-C.  Just let it do its thing.

Installing proprietary drivers for nvidia/ati are always the culprits
for the gui display manager failing.  Remove the proprietary display
drivers for now.  From the command-line, upgrade to 13.04, 13.10, and
finally to 14.04. Expect a 6-8 hours for each upgrade to complete so it
will probably take you a good 3 days to finish if you take a day for
each of these version jumps.

When you're done all the upgrading, then you may install the proprietary
drivers for nvidia/ati to your heart's content.  That will take another
hour to download and install.

Once all this is done, you'll be up-to-date and your current issues will
be resolved.

Cheers,
David Marceau