lordfkiller
July 19th, 2010, 04:11 PM
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
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