{"id":629,"date":"2015-02-22T23:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T07:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=629"},"modified":"2015-02-22T23:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T07:45:27","slug":"a-lost-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/02\/22\/a-lost-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lost Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\">I started what an upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS to Ubuntu 14.10 on my old Mac Workstation today at 6:15 AM.\u00a0 This was a project advertised as being three hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\">Ha!\u00a0 It&#8217;s now 11:35 PM and I finally have everything working again!\u00a0 To be fair, the actual upgrade only took 9 hours, it finished around 3PM, but then every once in a while WinAmp skipped on me so I wanted to install a low-latency kernel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\">I installed a low latency kernel, and the X-server no longer recognized my monitor.\u00a0 Further, lsmod showed the Nvidia driver was no longer loading.\u00a0 I spent the next eight hours trying various incantations, manually editing configuration files, etc, at several points I had no X at all, just a text console.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\">Finally, I went and grabbed the driver straight from the Nvidia site instead of the repository, and it worked!\u00a0 For some reason the driver supplied by the repository, even though it claims to be exactly the same version, simply does not work with the low latency kernel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\">So now I&#8217;ve got the latest and greatest, a nice responsive workstation and WinAmp plays smoothly now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started what an upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS to Ubuntu 14.10 on my old Mac Workstation today at 6:15 AM.\u00a0 This was a project advertised as being three hours. Ha!\u00a0 It&#8217;s now 11:35 PM and I finally have everything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/02\/22\/a-lost-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}