{"id":124,"date":"2011-11-11T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=124"},"modified":"2011-11-11T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:54:00","slug":"new-laptop-lenovo-z570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"New Laptop (Lenovo Z570)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I updated my laptop to unity (ubuntu 11.10), still with Lightnings though:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screenshot-at-2011-11-11-174102.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125\" title=\"Screenshot at 2011-11-11 17:41:02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screenshot-at-2011-11-11-174102-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screenshot-at-2011-11-11-174102-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screenshot-at-2011-11-11-174102-1024x575.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screenshot-at-2011-11-11-174102.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After updating to proprietary drivers (big mistake) it took 2 days to figure out how to get back any graphics at all. Text login was not fun for the first\u00a0 1 1\/2 days, then sadly I started to like it.<\/p>\n<p>So if anyone else has a Lenovo Z570 with Nvidia Cuda Geforce GT520M &#8211; leave it alone for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the code I used to restore:-<\/p>\n<p>sudo apt-get purge nvidia*<br \/>\nsudo rm \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf<br \/>\nsudo apt-get install &#8211;reinstall xserver-xorg-core\u00a0 libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri<br \/>\nsudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg<br \/>\nreboot<\/p>\n<p>This is mainly for me in case I try it again, but maybe will help someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I updated my laptop to unity (ubuntu 11.10), still with Lightnings though:- After updating to proprietary drivers (big mistake) it took 2 days to figure out how to get back any graphics at all. Text login was not fun for the first\u00a0 1 1\/2 days, then sadly I started to like it. So if anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nthong.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}