Video driver upgrade problem

[short circut]

So I am using ubuntu studio and i did the upgrade to 8.10. When i reboot X will not start. I was having the same problem as this guy->here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=980905). Well i triied what was in here and it didnt work. I did some snooping around and it turns out that the problem is not in the xconfig files. the nvidia driver module does not exist. So i looked around. I have it installed and i have the other nvidia stuff installed, but nothing seems to work. Would some one please help me. I really need to use that computer.

[oldsoundguy]

terrible issues with the current crop of Nvida drivers. Most work, but not completely. I had to install the legaacy 96 driver on one machine to be able to get wide screen off of a 5500 card. The word from NVidia and from Envy and hints dropped here "we're working on it".

And forget trying to make sense of the xorg.conf file! The driver chews that one up really bad!!

[short circut]

Ok I will try that. I dont know why they would upgrade me to a non working version. YOu would think the upgrade scripts would try to avoid taht kind of thing. i will let you know what happens in a few minutes

[short circut]

Well i cant actually download the 96 drivers. apt cant find them.

[short circut]

Does any one have anymore ideas

[oldsoundguy]

open synaptic and type nvida into the search box. The 96 (and all others) should show up there. (they were in my 8.10 on three boxes.)

[short circut]

I will try that again, but it didnt work the first time. The problem wasnt that it wasnt in the list. the problem was that it was not properly linked.

[oldsoundguy]

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources.php

You need to get the non-free repositories up and running especially!