nvidia restricted starts in save mode only

[James Takac]

Hi Cj

On Sunday 10 August 2008 13:09:22 debian wrote:
> 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



I don't see anything saying how our friend installed the driver. It may well 
have been via synaptic. I'd suggest trying the envy install script at 
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

James