Actually, you helped a fair amount (I'm new to the debian/ubuntu releases). All I really had to do was change the driver in xorg.conf from nv to nvidia and X is now fine.
Howard -- xserver does not boot after upgrade from dapper to edgy / abi mismatch of nv nvidia driver https://launchpad.net/bugs/67272 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
