intrepid and nvidia

[Carl Karsten]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>> David Fox wrote:
>>   
>>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>
>>> Recently, however, I had a system failure and had to reinstall a bunch
>>> of stuff.
>     What was the system failure? Why did you need to re-install anything?
> 
> 
> 
>>>  I never was able to get the nvidia driver back, so I went
>>> and downloaded the nvidia 173. driver from nvidia's own site and
>>> installed that. Now it works, but doesn't (and seemingly can't) start
>>> on boot. I have to go in and sudo insmod to get the module to load.
>>>
>>>     
>     You need to get the Ubuntu nVidia driver which can be done with 
> Sympatic file manager. You d/l it and it should fix your problem.
> 
> 
>     Depending on what really happened when your computer lost all those 
> files, it might be better to just re-load Hardy on top of the broken 
> one. If you use this method you will not need to find the nVidia files.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

Um... which one of us are you trying to help?

Carl K