Ubuntu

hardware upgrade now nothing work

Asked by Mark Freeman

I folk's I am new to Ubuntu and I am impressed! well I was until I upgraded my pc! I am running Ubuntu 7.10, My pc build is as follows:-
Msi 945GCM5-F ,motherboard,
POWER COLOR X1950 PRO graphics card,
INTEL CORE 2 DUO E4500 Processor,
CORSAIR 2GB RAM KIT 2X 1GB,
And I have a Newlink PCI ATA133 RAID CONTROLLER CARD.
MSI 52X CD-R/RW,
And a e-ide dvd writer.
I have a Samsung 80Gig HDD plus I have added a Western Digital 320Gig HDD.
I turned on my pc I am running Ubuntu on the 80 Gig Hdd as this was running Ok until I upgraded to all the above. I have a Samsung 120Gig HDD I did want to run my pc on this HDD but when I installed it everything was ok then I installed the driver for my graphics card from Synaptic. then the pc would not boot up it got so far then just kept crashing! now I can't do anything with the 120Gig HDD. Luckily I had my old 80Gig HDD so I installed that and booted up I am using a restricted driver at the moment to run the graphics card. How do I install the driver for this Graphics card? without crashing my pc.
Also my dvd and my cdr don't work, When I look in the BIOS the CDR-RW isn't on the list for boot sequence, but it shows up on my screen when I look in computer file browser! also in the file browser ther is cd-rom 1 and 2 what are these they were never there before! plus my WD 320HDD is not showing up in the file browser I thought it would plug n play. How wrong I was
I am really struggling now, and thinking of going back to windows, I am trying to learn about pc's but I think I am out of my depth here, there is info on line about installing drivers and such but I don't know where to type the things that they say type in.
can any one give me a fool's guide to sorting my pc I want to use Ubuntu.
Many thanks, Mark
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Allen Chemist (alchemist) said : 		#1

Hi Mark,

I'm a little confused at your question, but I think I might be able to help.

First off, an explanation of what 'restricted' means -- it's not that it is not-complete-restricted, but rather restricted in what the community may do with it. The restricted drivers are provided by the manufacturers, with the restriction the community cannot have the source and modify the driver. Since they are provided by the manufacturers who have the build specs of the graphics chips, the 'restricted' drivers often have more than the open source drivers which must be reverse engineered. If you are using the 'restricted driver', you are probably using the one you want.

I have no idea why the cdrom would not show up in the bios, but work once into the OS, maybe someone else can shed some light on this.

The hard drive (320g) *should* plug and play, however a number of things can prevent that for the safety of the data. Can you click on Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal, type the following and copy and paste the results here:
sudo fdisk -l
(the last character is a lower case L as in Lima)

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Mark Freeman (fasthandsfreeman) said : 		#2

I have changed everything and using a nvidia graphics card now problem solved long way round but happier! many thanks to the people who tried to help me!