After upgrading from 9.10 (Karmic) to 10.04 (Lucid), since KDE was not working, I booted into GNOME and checked the hardware drivers installed on my system System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers
There it showed that I had both Nvidia version 173 installed and Nvidia version 195 installed. Version 195 was selected as active. I figured that, based on reading other posts, the update messed up my nvidia driver configs between the 2 versions. I followed the steps in this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1467074 and manually installed the Nvidia driver 195.36.24 and it worked! I was able to run KDE again! Synopsis from above post ( Thanks AndyBoy_LV ): I read somewhere that they changed the way nvidia drivers get installed on Lynx (correct me if i`m wrong), so it took me some time to figure out how to do that. So, here is the guide: 1) Download Newest Nvidia drivers from their website 2) Open module blacklist as admin: (i use gedit for text file editing) sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf 3) Add these lines and save: blacklist vga16fb blacklist nouveau blacklist rivafb blacklist nvidiafb blacklist rivatv 4) Uninstall any previously installed Nvidia drivers: sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-* 5) Reboot your computer 6) When an error message pops up saying that Ubuntu cannot load Nvidia drivers, choose Exit to terminal (Exit to console) 7) Login and cd to the directory where you saved your file Install drivers sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.24-pkg2.run 9) Start GDM sudo service gdm start -- Ubuntu Lucid Lynx KDE desktop crashes on login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579948 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
