[Bio-linux-dev] [Bio-Linux] BioLinux install failure

[Tony Travis]

On 04/06/13 15:53, Tim Booth wrote:
> Hi Andor,
> 
> Tony's e-mail earlier today on the developers list suggests that I have
> managed to make an ISO release that is stuck somewhere between 12.04.1
> and 12.04.2 and this is upsetting the drivers for NVidia and probably
> other things.  I will try to get this sorted in the next few days.  In
> the meantime I'm glad you found a solution.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> TIM
> 
> On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 15:24 +0100, Andor J Kiss wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>>     BioLinux (12.04.2) fails to install the nvidia driver, as the
>> linux-source package is not there to build against.  My solution was
>> to add the xorg-edgers ppa and install the nvidia module and have it
>> build against the xorg-edgers ppa linux-source.

Hi, Tim and Andor.

I also tried using the xorg-edgers ppa, but this makes the situation
even more complicated. That's why I backed it out and used the
'official' 12.04.1 -> 12.04.2 upgrade method described at:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

My laptop display is working properly again :-)

HTH,

  Tony.