Yep, this bug is now affecting me too. Weird because Ubuntu 10.04 was working fine on this Dell Inspiron 2650 for some time before. So now I used scalawag_'s suggestion at http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9054571&postcount=7 to get to the Ubuntu Desktop:
At the gdm screen: Ctrl+alt+F2 login with username and password sudo service gdm stop startx After I was booted into the GUI, I created a special user(I used username: freeuser) via System>Administration>Users and Groups, set it up with admin privileges, then enabled the "Don't ask for password on login" setting. So then after I reboot, I click the user "freeuser" and it logs in automatically (sometimes gdm restarts and I have to click it a second time, but after that it works). Then after that, I had to(as I've always had to do with this machine while the nvidia graphics are installed) set "Appearance Preferences"(right-click the desktop, click "Change Desktop Background", then "Visual Effects"), from Normal to None. Something else I notice is that my nvidia driver won't install properly. I click System>Administration>Hardware Drivers and then try to activate the driver(version 96) but it fails with "Sorry, installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log" (attached). Seems unlikely that any typical new user could even make any of this work. So in the case of this Dell Inspiron 2650 anyway, this problem is a vote for buying Ubuntu preinstalled. Thanks to everyone helping with this! Shannon VanWagner - humans-enabled.com -- Mouse and keyboard stop working after selecting user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553200 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
