Frustration may make me short and sarcastic, please forgive. Early this morning I attempted to "upgrade" from 16.04 to 18.04 on a Foxconn Product:Nettop nT-535. On the post upgrade reboot, the splash screen "Xubuntu" shows a rotating circle segment that freezes and hangs for at least tens of minutes. Eventually something times out and the monitor shows "no signal." I have been able to SSH to it and explore. I'm blaming the display first.
lshw identifies: display:0 VGA compatible controller Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller ... driver=i915 After reading more about Intel VS Ubuntu than I ever, ever wanted to, I tried a package from the "Intel Open Source Technology Center."
intel-graphics-update-tool_2.0.2_i386.deb
without success. The errors claim "dependency problems prevent configuration of intel-graphics-update-tool"
It said the tool depended on libpackagekit-glib2-16 which was unavailable; missing or obsoleted or only available from another source. (source unspecified.)
It seems libpackagekit-glib2-18 is appropriate for 18.04 but when I tried to install that, it said I already had libpackagekit-glib2-18 in the newest version and further down in that attempted install that intel-graphics-update-tool depended on libpackagekit-glib2-16 "but it is not installable" Recommending "libproxyl-plugin-webkit" WTF do I do with that?
I've been using the device to monitor and upload security camera data from a private cabin. It's now mid afternoon and I'm very tempted to throw the thing into the lake and let the fish worry about it.
