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Hmmmmm my hunch is this borked at the xorg update ,there's a thread going on 'jaunty' about this but sound very similar to whats happend on your 'intrepid' desktop....

"So I tried to to a recover mode, everything ran"

Is this still the case? if so lets boot into recover mode and run update manager ,see what it says.

Am I reading it right you broke out of update manager mid-stream so to speak or did they completely finish? and have you done a cold-boot on the desktop machine?

Hi Jim ,sorry to hear about your probs and welcome to Ubuntu.

would you post the output of the following:

In terminal type

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Generally speaking Ubuntu will suggest a restart if its essential that you do. In my case I always restart after updates.

Not sure I fully understand the question

Should be no need if you know...

Cool ,i'll take a look at that - thanks

Please backup your xorg before proceeding

In terminal:


cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.mybackup

edit: posted before ^^^^^

me thinks we need to confirm the OP's card is supported by the driver ,i'm sure it is but as assumption is the mother of all ......

what graphics card do you have?

lspci | grep VGA

and which version of Ubuntu ?

Yes I read about the other 'card' you tried.

what does this give you? if it complains 'not found' you'll need the package nvclock from synaptic.


nvclock -i

edit: and this one as well
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[/QUOTE] BTW what did you think of mandriva?[/QUOTE]
Actually, I did like it. The GUI is nicer to my eyes. However, I am not going to switch there - it's either Ubuntu or M$. I am not going to start...

I admire your persistence with trying to resolve this one and I agree with your findings that Ubuntu (or any linux flavour for that matter) to be faster to boot and more stable. I've 1% of the...

Must you have the latest version ?

Any clues in here ?

cat /etc/fstab

Post output if you like i'll take a look.

Did you accept the default recommended? and what driver did that give you? If it gave the 173 (nvidia-glx-new) then I think something has failed in the identification of your card ,if you chose this...

If you followed this step

"save to X configuration" and i would advise you to "merge" with existing. save or accept whatever it says.

then you can check by looking at you *new* xorg.conf...

Ok thats cool. close that window and what we need to do now is update your xorg.conf with the new driver. you did make that backup earlier - right ;-)

first we need to check whats been installed...

Does this exist in your menu's ?

System/Administration/Hardware Drivers

and does it give you any options? there should be one marked recommended ,if this is the case then accept that and...

How did you install your 'nvidia' packages ?

Correct me if i'm wrong but it appears your xorg.conf is not showing the nvidia drive . I would expect to see 'nv' or maybe "nvidia" - maybe i'm wrong on this.

Driver "vesa"

from terminal...

Does it say configured by nvidia-settings at the top ?

OP - The most helpful thing right now would be to post your xorg me thinks *before* you embark on trying to re-configure with envy.

try here for starters...

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-487756.html

I found the easiest workaround to this was to set hotmail "on vacation" thats where they're goin forever - afterall lol) and included a message in my signature with new email addy and done the same...

I guess i'd like to *zip* my hotmail stuff (folders/sddress book etc) and forward that to my new gmail - i'm totally shot of MS$ now ,but yeah a little howto wont go a miss.

cheers.

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