Cannot get Lucid running! Help needed...

[lordfkiller]

Tonight I installed Lucid(10.04) on my laptop, which is a VAIO VPCCW.
The first problem I faced was the blank screen when trying to install Ubuntu. That was solved by pressing F6 and activating "nomodeset"
Afterwards, I had to edit Grub, removing splash and quiet and adding nomodeset, to get it running.

Because of the low resolution and lack of support for effects, I intalled the proprietary driver for nvidia and restarted.
Now I'm getting a message saying the display cannot be found etc and it is running is low graphics mode. When trying to open nvidia-settings, I get "You do not appear to be using nvidia X driver. Please edit your X configuration file(just run nvidia-xconfig as root) ... "
And obviously, running nvidia-xconfig as root didn't change anything.

Any idea what's going on? I was forced to move to Windows a month ago as a result of this issue(bought a new laptop) and now I see the problem is not resolved yet. Please help!

Btw, OS: 10.04 64bit Graphics Card: NVIDIA

[dino99]

remove xorg.conf:

sudo rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf

into synaptic repo tab, add this ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

then update, upgrade and reboot

related thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1445212 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1501227

[lordfkiller]

That changed nothing. I got a low resolution screen after restart, with the same error in nvidia-settings. Running nvidia-xonfig, it's running low graphics mode again.

[whych]

I'm not the ubuntu expert, but you need to install the nvidia driver. From memory, synaptics normally pops upo a message that there are proprietory drivers available and installs them.
Look in the package management settings and enable the non-free repos.

[lordfkiller]

Please read the question again:


...Because of the low resolution and lack of support for effects, I intalled the proprietary driver for nvidia and restarted....