On Wed, Dec 31 at 11:09, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Yes it did but I then got a blank screen as soon as this happened.   Only 
> manual faffing around with xorg.conf has got me even this far.
Hmm blank screen on Ubuntu sounds familiar.
Is this another combination where Compiz needs to be disabled ?
  sudo apt-get autoremove compiz
  sudo apt-get autoremove compiz-core
Fixed my blank screen problems  on a Dell with U8.10 recently.
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        Bob Dunlop