Hardy 8.04 upgrade causes Nvidia trouble

[toekneevee]

Upgraded to Hardy 8.04 from Gutsy 7.10 (which ran great). After enabling the restricted Nvidia driver and rebooting, Ubuntu runs in low graphics mode. I am unable to find current driver or resolution greater than 800 x 600 through the configuration screens. I was using the Nvidia driver with 7.10.

Dell Inspiron 531, Athlon 64 X2, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8300 GS

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[tamoneya]

have you tried using envy to install the drivers?

[toekneevee]

Yes. Same trouble.

[RATM_Owns]

Did you try

sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-new
?

[toekneevee]

No success. When I go to NVIDIA x server settings it says I do not appear to be using the NVIDIA x driver and to run nvidia-xconfig as root. When I do that, I get the following...

tony@tony-desktop:~$ nvidia-xconfig

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".

WARNING: The CorePointer device was not specified explicitly in the layout;
using the first CorePointer in the config input list.


WARNING: The CoreKeyboard device was not specified explicitly in the layout;
using the first keyboard device.


ERROR: Unable to write to directory '/etc/X11'.

tony@tony-desktop:~$

Any other suggestions? Thanks for the help.

[RATM_Owns]

SOLUTION:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

EDIT: But I read somewhere that graphical apps should be run using gksudo so...

gksudo nvidia-xconfig