[ale] a no way out situation

[Jim Philips]

There *was* a way out! It turned out I couldn't boot from the CD/DVD
drive because the DVD there was corrupt. I managed to update the
installation of Ubuntu 12.10 using a new disk. But there are still
severe issues with the Catalyst driver. Ubuntu had to know that they
were stranding a huge number of users with ATI cards by using this
version of X. They did it anyway. This may be the last straw in my
relationship with them.

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like it's time to provide a temp hard drive withh freedos and bios
> flash image.
>
> On Oct 27, 2012 12:45 PM, "Jim Philips" <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> To date, no amount of fiddling has gotten me a network connection or
>> an X session. What I have tried:
>>
>> 1. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg  After this, I get a warning that my
>> keyboard and mouse are not working. I get a dialogue box that requires
>> "OK" to get past. With no keyboard and no mouse, I can't get past it.
>>
>> 2. I tried a wired connection and "ifup eth0". This just tells me that
>> eth0 is not recognized, even thought it shows up if I run "ifconfig
>> -a".
>>
>> 3. Selecting "Networking" from the "Recovery" screen. This gets me a
>> blinking cursor that never stops.
>>
>> 4. Using a boot disk. My BIOS gives me a chance to select hard drive
>> or CD/DVD drive to boot from. Selecting CD/DVD drive brings me right
>> back to a boot from the hard drive. I think this broke the last time
>> BIOS updated.
>>
>> So, I'm really screwed when it comes to starting Linux. I can't even
>> do a reinstall. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > In Ubuntu 12.10, I tried upgrading the ATI driver to fglrx-updates.
>> > After this, X wouldn't start. If I start up in recovery mode, there is
>> > a Networking option. Selecting this starts fsck, which never finishes.
>> > If I drop to the root prompt, I don't see any way to start wireless
>> > networking. So, as it stands, I see no way to update any packages. Any
>> > ideas?
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