[BozemanLUG] Ubuntu 10.04

Scott Dowdle dowdle at montanalinux.org
Tue May 18 14:10:00 MDT 2010


Rob,

----- Original Message -----
> Clarification as to backing up my system/files. I am very old school
> plus I run very little custom anything (too technical for me
> yet..lol). So I copy / paste my individual documents, pictures and do
> a browser bookmark backup. I do not actually copy/backup my entire
> home folder/system files.
> 
> As to the driver, I can probably live without it. I am a fan of using
> actual vendor drivers but then I am also a fan of things working. I
> know that there are some effects that can be done on the desktop level
> only if you have that driver installed although I am not sure I am
> actually using any of those effects.
> 
> I will just have to test this and then consider what I want more,
> stability or effects. My issues are not major, they are all livable
> issues but are a bit odd.

Ok, if you didn't copy over any dot files or dot directories from your backup... and we decide it is unrelated to your video driver... it wouldn't be a bad thing to run memcheck86 on your machine to see if the RAM might be failing.

TYL,
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