installation problems Dell Precision 690

[Tiemen Ruiten]

Pejman Rohani wrote:
>> I'm sure someone can help if you'd ask a question we can answer.
>>
>>   
> 
> OK, I've tried to install the NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (by 
> going to the restricted drivers manager), but when I reboot the X server 
> doesn't come up.
> 
> I've also tried to install the NVIDIA graphics driver manually but when 
> I try to kill the GDM, the machine hangs.
> 
> Can you help with these more specific questions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Have you tried to reconfigure the xserver-xorg package? You can do this
by typing "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"
This will lead you through a series of dialogs (the default options are
in almost all cases OK) after which you should have an working x.
If that doesn't work try:
"sudo nvidia-xconfig enable"
This will attempt to guess a working xorg.conf. It has a lot of options
you may want to fiddle with. I can't give you any advice on which
options to choose, as I don't know your configuration.

This is about as far as my knowledge goes, hope you'll get it working.

Tiemen