nvidia restricted starts in save mode only

[debian]

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 01:33 +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have here a Lenovo T61p, with a nVidia Quadro FX 570M and Ubuntu
> 8.04, all updates installed.
> 
> Everytime I active the restricted nvidia driver, the system starts up
> in save mode only. I looked around on the web on help on how to solve
> this, but did not find anything that helped. I am no Linux pro
> 
> When I install the nvidia-settings and run it, I get this error:
> "You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X
> configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart
> the X server."
> 
> When I run nvidia-xconfig and restart the system, it still starts to save mode.
> 
> It worked when I originally installed the system, but broke with one
> of the updates since then. Any tips on how to get this working again
> are very welcome.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
try reinstalling the driver. from synaptic, search for nvidia-glx-new
and mark it for reinstallation

--cj