<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.18.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> Good news. I have finally been able to get Ubuntu 8.10 installed on my Dell XPS 710 system using the Alternate CD from the DVD I got from the latest copy of Linux Journal. The challenge had been that I have an NVidia RAID 0 config but with the Alternate CD it had dmraid preloaded and it installs pretty easily, including installing GRUB and recognizing my preinstalled WinXP system so I can dual boot. Sweet <IMG SRC="cid:1232387107.23138.37.camel@Ubuntu" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":)" BORDER="0"> Now, my newest challenge. I boot in and can do the updates, etc. BUT,,,,I have 2x NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX (768mb each) in SLI config with another $400 graphics accelerator card installed. Yep, that's over a thousand dollars worth of graphics folks. The problem is, I try enabling the NVidia 177 drivers (recommended) and reboot to find myself with the message: "No resume image, doing normal boot" Which basically drops me out of gnome and into the term prompt. Rather than enumerating all the steps I have already tried and the wiki's, etc I have dug through (suffice it to say that I am just about to run through the Alt CD install process for the 14th time, yes, number 14! I have gotten very quickly to be proficient with both the Live CD install and the Alt CD install processes), I'm hoping that someone could shed a little light on what I could do to get my vid card functioning properly. On a side note, I will say that this system has quad core procs overclocked to 3.2ghz with 4g RAM and when I am in the Ubuntu install, WOW!! This is what computing was supposed to be like! Talk about freeing up your hardware to really scream! Had Vista on it, (cough, hack, spit, choke!!!) downgraded to XP, (a little better), but with Ubuntu.....ya Baby!!! Any help with this video/graphics "challenge" would be greatly appreciated!! I'd LOVE to have this really kicking with all the bells and whistles <IMG SRC="cid:1232387828.23138.50.camel@Ubuntu" ALIGN="middle" ALT=";-)" BORDER="0"> (read Compiz, hehe....) Thanks- Jim O'Beirne Very quickly becoming less and less of a noob,.... <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>