I have had a total mare with this too... I have recently built a new PC: ASRock P43R1600Twins mobo, Intel 8400 Core2 Duo, Nvidia 9500GT, 2G DDR2 8500.
Initially I installed Hardy 8.04.1 and all was OK but the hardware detection didn't recognise my new 9500GT card. I also started getting LAN problems due to the dhclient.conf requesting mtu and me having a crap router :-). I updated the mobo BIOS to the latest version and Hardy wouldn't boot. At all. Even the Live CD would'nt boot. After a long time it just dropped to a shell in the initramfs. So I though I'd try Intrepid. Live CD works, removing the line for mtu in dhclient.conf fixes the LAN problem and the hardware detection found my Nvidia card :-) However - after enabling it I have had no end of issues. EVERY time I reboot, the system drops back to a totally unusable 640x480 or lower resolution and doesn't want to load the nvidia driver. I have tried both the 177 and 173 releases. I got completely fscked after trying to use synaptic to install or uninstall these drivers and get to a stable display but it has all failed. I tried using nvidia-xconfig to create a new xorg.conf but after each rebot, a new xorg is created that will not let me select any resultions other than 640 or 320! My VGA 19" Dell M991 monitor was connected through a Belkin KVM. I have also hard cabled the monitor to see if this makes any difference. I am now re-installing Ibex and will not install the nvidia driver for a while - the default install gives me a 1152x864 resolution I guess using the vesa or nv driver. The display does flicker quite a bit in this configuration, but at least I can fit applications on the screen. Hope this helps and please ask if you want me to test anything - I have a spare partition so I could set up a secondary install to test if it will help. I'm in the UK and can get on IRC if anyone wants to too. -- X doesn't load installed nvidia driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
