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[Andrew Mathenge]

I did a clean install of Jaunty (9.04) and everything worked well for
me this time. The nVidia driver is a restricted driver that needs to
be enabled. It won't install by default.

In my case, what happened is that the hardware wizard came up after
the install and told me that I needed two additional drivers. One for
the nVidia card and another for my broadcom wireless card.

Try booting off the live-CD and then going to
system>>Administration>>Hardware Drivers

See if the Live-CD is setting them up for you by default. If that's
the case, you can try a hard disk install and manually enable the
nVidia driver.

One last thing, my previous version was 8.04 (hardy). I tried
upgrading to 8.10 (Intrepid) and that was unsuccessful so I stayed
with Hardy until the Jaunty release. So far my experience with Jaunty
has been good otherwise I would have reverted to Hardy. Jaunty is the
first Ubuntu release to successfully detect my wireless card and
prompt me for driver install.

My laptop is a Dell Latitude D620.

Andrew.

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Leslie Lewis <lesliel8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried installing Jaunty last night after trying out the live CD. All the
> drivers seemed to be present with the CD, but after the install the NVIDIA
> driver was not listed and the wireless wouldn't latch on somehow. I went
> back to Linux Mint because I know it works and I didn't feel like fighting
> with Ubuntu just then. I know it will be straightened out eventually, so
> I'll keep trying.
>
> Btw, I finally learned a while ago to install /home in a separate partition.
> That means reinstalling is really a non-issue. I really should make another
> partition for Jaunty and dual-boot so I can keep an eye on it and know when
> the drivers start working - maybe that's today's project.
>
> Leslie in Canmore
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