FokkerCharlie
June 12th, 2009, 10:34 AM
Hello!
Last night I tried to manually upgrade my Nvidia driver to the latest version from their website, after previously using the 180-glx driver in the repos. Unfortunately, it's caused some problems.
Removing the old driver proceeded fine, without errors, and the Nvidia installer went smoothly. After rebooting, I am faced only with the text screen (after usplash, no GDM), and can log in fine. Then, I can switch to terminal 8 (ctrl+alt+f8), but the last message there refers to setting Advanced Power Management.
I tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, which returned:
xserver-xorg is broken or not fully installed.
I can't get connected to the network via the terminal here (iwlist scan finds the network, but I don't get a DCHP offer), so I can't reinstall it! Is it possible to download the packages to some other media or something? Aaaargh!
Please help! I'm hoping someone has a magic bullet for this....
Charlie
Last night I tried to manually upgrade my Nvidia driver to the latest version from their website, after previously using the 180-glx driver in the repos. Unfortunately, it's caused some problems.
Removing the old driver proceeded fine, without errors, and the Nvidia installer went smoothly. After rebooting, I am faced only with the text screen (after usplash, no GDM), and can log in fine. Then, I can switch to terminal 8 (ctrl+alt+f8), but the last message there refers to setting Advanced Power Management.
I tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, which returned:
xserver-xorg is broken or not fully installed.
I can't get connected to the network via the terminal here (iwlist scan finds the network, but I don't get a DCHP offer), so I can't reinstall it! Is it possible to download the packages to some other media or something? Aaaargh!
Please help! I'm hoping someone has a magic bullet for this....
Charlie