OK so I go to Adobe site.

DOwnload deb for ubuntu

it does into the download folder

I double click on it - I get an option which includes 'I' to install

I then have to type in sudu

then my password

then it keeps telling another application has locked some database

So I try some Synaptic Package Manager, that even more useless as it doesn't list the downloaded file.

The nearest I can get to opening the downloaded file is 'Read Markings' so it 'reads' it then nothing happens?

LINUX has got a lot to do before it makes dint in Windows. FOr example a friend got a new Win7 laptop last week and he needed Flash installing. Made a cuppa went to a site that needed Flash, it automatically downloaded installed before we even got half way through drinking our cuppas!

I have been here for over an hour now trying to get flash working - am losing the will to live. I keep trying to like Linux but they don't make that easy!

Open the Ubuntu Software Centre application (in the applications menu)
Type in your password
Search for "Flash"
Hit "Install"

Now I reckon that's easier than faffing about getting files from websites, so I think it's more a case that you're used to the way you do things on Windows, rather than Linux being intrinsically more difficult to use. I was the same when I first started using Linux too.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash

Try that.


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Open the Ubuntu Software Centre application (in the applications menu)
Type in your password
Search for "Flash"
Hit "Install"

Now I reckon that's easier than faffing about getting files from websites, so I think it's more a case that you're used to the way you do things on Windows, rather than Linux being intrinsically more difficult to use. I was the same when I first started using Linux too.

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There is no 'Ubuntu Software Centre'

But went to site suggested by Seablade and copied and pasted a few command lines which put a file ending nonfree.so into a lib folder etc etc and the it worked

I know the comparison with Windows was unfair, bit of an exasperated rant, but there seems so many different ways of doing the same thing. Even when downloading - there is yum, tar, rpm, deb, apt how is the newcomer supposed to know what to use?

I suppose you learn it like anything and hack your way through things

Grrrrr.....bloody hell!

So I got Flash working and then continue setting things up and come across 'Additional Drivers' and auto update for my Nvidia card.

I select that and it goes on the internet, finds the driver, installs it - WOW Linux is great!

Asks me to reboot and what do I get - a max 640 display, before I did the update I got 1240!

Now my computer display looks like an old Amiga!

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Grrrrr.....bloody hell!

So I got Flash working and then continue setting things up and come across 'Additional Drivers' and auto update for my Nvidia card.

I select that and it goes on the internet, finds the driver, installs it - WOW Linux is great!

Asks me to reboot and what do I get - a max 640 display, before I did the update I got 1240!

Now my computer display looks like an old Amiga!

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Eww, not so good.

This one would require some more advanced troubleshooting sadly, and it has been some time since I needed to troubleshoot problems in X as in general it just isn't much of a problem anymore and hasn't been for years in my experience.

I don't have time at this moment to start it though, will come back alter. The basics are, we need to check your logs to see if an error message appears to explain what exactly went wrong, the best way to do this is to look at them after X(The Graphical subsystem of Linux) starts to see what it is doing. You can start doing this yourself by using the command dmesg and looking for errors involving nvidia, nv, X11, X, X-Windows, etc. Sorry I can't give you better info right now, as I said it is odd that you would have problems in general with this these days.

Seablade

Unfortunately it's too late now, but I've found from experience that once you get an nvidia card working you never try to upgrade the driver

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(Well, actually, it probably was)

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Unfortunately it's too late now, but I've found from experience that once you get an nvidia card working you never try to upgrade the driver

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Yes I suppose it's wahat known as an upgrade/downgrade!

I am trying my best to get into Linux, but the gods conspire against me - confounded thing won't even boot now. Not even into Windows, and that's even though I put linux on a spare drive I had in a caddie

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Unfortunately it's too late now, but I've found from experience that once you get an nvidia card working you never try to upgrade the driver

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Yes I suppose it's wahat known as an upgrade/downgrade!

I am trying my best to get into Linux, but the gods conspire against me - confounded thing won't even boot now. Not even into Windows, and that's even though I put linux on a spare drive I had in a caddie

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It is possible the MBR got overwritten depending on the exact install. You can repair this a couple of different ways, reinstalling Linux is one, and since you are having problems with Video that might not be a bad one for you.

There is an option to rebuild the MBR on the Windows Install CDs, but Ill be danged if I can remember what it is though sorry.

Seablade

I saw this falling-back-to-low-res-after-reboot when I installed new kernel versions without headers. The nvidia driver couldn't make a module for the new kernel.

Best option is to install "linux-headers-rt" and "linux-rt" hence always depend on the latest headers and kernel. (or equivalent for whatever kernel you use.)

rt was absent from Maverick so I stayed with Lucid.
Anyone know if its back in Natty?