In the past, when I have had tough problems like yours, I have found solutions on the IRC channel. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/chat
By the way, I upgraded ubuntu (gnome) from 9.10 to 10.04 on my Toshiba laptop. My laptop does not have NVIDIA graphics, however. I used the release CD. Everything went well until the initial reboot when the system froze hard. I finally removed power and battery to get it to reboot. Once it rebooted, it works very well. Good Luck, -- Pat On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > The Ubuntu forums are massive compared to any other distro, and they > > have a pretty good search utility. I'd recommend searching on "VIA" to > > see what turns up. > > Nothing. > > > If nothing turns up, post yourself in an appropriate > > forum. I've had excellent results posting about various problems that I > > have had over the years. > > > > I have found some of my answers using that route. I'll give VIA a try in > the area where 10.04 login loop resides. > > > Bear in mind also that from the Grub boot menu the Recovery Mode will > > boot you to a command line. I have found this extremely handy when > > fixing video problems because it allows you to log in without loading > > X. From the command line you can use wget and dpkg or apt-get to > > install different video drivers or reconfigure the video. > > > > One of the things that worked in the past was to get a command line > login and run: > > sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm > > Unfortunately, that did not work this time. I'll include that in my > Ubuntu Forum post and see if anyone has other ideas. > > > I also find it interesting that your video works in 9.10 but not 10.04. > > This smells like someone changed the video driver for 10.04, and > > apparently not for the better. Maybe you can find the older driver and > > install it instead of the new one. To find a driver that works try live > > CDs for other versions of Ubuntu or other distros. If you find one > > where the video works fine, check out which video driver it is using. > > > > Since if works fine in 9.10, then I'll see if I can figure out what to > put where and give that a try. > > Thanks for the ideas. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
