Difficult in installing Drivers with new Ubuntu 8.10

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 01:15 +0530, Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed Ubuntu 8.10 afresh on my machine and somehow I cann't
> install Nvidia drivers using System->Adminstration->Hardware-Drivers.
> When I click Activate, one pop-up menu comes and disappers and nothing
> is downloaded and installed.  One side effect I observed is that my
> browser become offline after clicking "Activate" button.  This
> behavior was not observed when upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10, but show
> up only in the fresh installation.

Hi, could you tell us which Nvidia hardware you have and which driver
version it used in 8.04 and, if you still have that, on the upgraded
installation? I'm asking because the proprietary drivers that are in
8.10 dropped support for some cards.

It is possible that the problem did not show up in the upgraded machine
because it might have continued to use the old driver. I have no nvidia
hardware to verify this, though, it's just a guess at this point.

Also see the release notes for details of the affected cards:
<http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810#nVidia%20%22legacy%22%
20video%20support>