I had the exact same problem (on nVidia FX 5700) connected with Synaptic displaying very few packages (about 1100 total). That made me take a look at System -> Administration -> Software Sources and it turn out that all the repos were disabled there. I have no idea why they were disabled (maybe because i had no internet connection during installation) but the point is that enabling them solved the problem and the Appearence -> Visual Effects nicely installed the drivers automaticaly then.
-- nVidia Drivers Installing In Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Failiure In Procediure. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153756 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
