X won't start at boot with NVidia driver

[Colin Brace]

On Feb 4, 2008 7:43 PM, Ed Jabbour <ejbr at att.net> wrote:

> Running kubuntu 7.10 on an HP laptop.  I downloaded the proper driver from the
> Nvidia site

Have you tried installing the nvidia drivers from the Ubuntu repos?

$ aptitude search nvidia
p   nvidia-cg-toolkit               - NVIDIA Cg Toolkit installer
p   nvidia-glx                      - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver
p   nvidia-glx-dev                  - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver dev
p   nvidia-glx-legacy               - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'legacy' d
p   nvidia-glx-legacy-dev           - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'legacy' d
p   nvidia-glx-new                  - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'new' driv
p   nvidia-glx-new-dev              - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'legacy' d
v   nvidia-kernel-1.0.7184          -
v   nvidia-kernel-1.0.7185          -
v   nvidia-kernel-1.0.8774          -
v   nvidia-kernel-1.0.9639          -
v   nvidia-kernel-100.14.19         -
i A nvidia-kernel-common            - NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
p   nvidia-kernel-source            - NVIDIA binary kernel module source
p   nvidia-legacy-kernel-source     - NVIDIA binary 'legacy' kernel module sourc
p   nvidia-new-kernel-source        - NVIDIA binary 'new' kernel module source
p   nvidia-settings                 - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics dr
p   nvidia-xconfig                  - The NVIDIA X Configuration Tool

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