Re: final gtk+maverick battles

[Bric <bric flight us>]

On 02/16/2014 10:33 AM, David Marceau wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure i can't fast-forward to 14.04, with just one more install ?

I think I will need to install from an external bootable anyway; my 
current apt-get doesn't show any dist-upgrade options.  I skipped 11 
with this first leap; shouldn't I be able to skip 13, with a similar 
maneuver?

thanks for these tips. Ubuntu has been good with drivers, including 
video drivers, and I don't have nvidia or anything special.


> 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
>
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