ubuntu 10.04 wont boot in graphical mode

**frank8880** · May 9th, 2010

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**frank8880** · May 9th, 2010

why does it take so long for ppl to respond over these forums? i thought this was the biggest ubuntu forum and ubuntu seems to be the most famous linux distro, what's wrong?

**khelben1979** · May 9th, 2010

Originally Posted by frank8880

why does it take so long for ppl to respond over these forums? i thought this was the biggest ubuntu forum and ubuntu seems to be the most famous linux distro, what's wrong?

People work for free on this internet forum. I think you should go for paid support if you want faster response times.

**khelben1979** · May 9th, 2010

Getting an older version of the nVidia driver from the nVidia homepage might be the answer to your problem here. Try with nVidia driver 173.14.22 which matches the kernel module.

Also, I could not see anything in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file when I look at your screen dump, not so good.

**Naitsirhc Hsem** · May 10th, 2010

Lucid does not use xorg.conf as I understand it

**khelben1979** · May 10th, 2010

Originally Posted by Naitsirhc Hsem

Lucid does not use xorg.conf as I understand it

Hmm.. that is probably true, but he has told us that he has installed a prop. nvidia graphics driver and that driver should create a new xorg.conf file and if it's not there, there's a problem!

**frank8880** · May 12th, 2010

thanks everybody, my problem seems to have been solved.... i did 2 things and don't know what worked exactly: i installed the nvidia driver with:

#sh NVIDIAdriver.run -K

but at the boot manager, i input a startup command:

gdm start

my system seems to be "working" now even though i have some other issues but at least it's working. thanks everyone.