Maverick Alpha3 +nvidia-96 +updates

[Goh Lip]

On Friday 13,August,2010 08:39 AM, NoOp wrote:


> Doesn't work (for me). Only gets to a terminal login.
>
> Same as before:
> 'Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so'
>
> But thanks for the suggestion anyway.
>


NoOb, there is a message in the Lubuntu mailing list where the writer 
(Lane Lester) had some luck, I post this and hope this may help.

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>     I think, but I am not quite sure, startx for lxde is "startlxde"
>
>
> Well, I didn't get a chance to find out.
>
> I did another apt-get update/upgrade, like I did yesterday, and this time I also ran:
> aptitude remove nvidia-current (after installing aptitude)
> It removed 80-something files, including openoffice, linux-headers, fonts, etc. I thought I was going to end up with a dead install.
>
> But no, the normal boot went normally! I'm composing this email in Lubuntu.
>
> With no /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I don't know what driver is working. Is there a way to tell?
>
> I don't play any games, so I don't know if there's an advantage to my running nvidia-current or not.
>


Hope you have better luck with this (remove nvidia-current); my Lubuntu 
is okay so far.

Regards - Goh Lip
-- 
ps: many thanks to Lane. (gpl v2 licenced)  :)