I faced this issue. I have built in VGA, I disconnect Nvidia card, then Ubuntu booting. Download Nvidia driver from main website, then connect nvidia card again, and boot the system via init 3, at the end install nvidia driver after that switch to level 5. -------------------------- Best Wishes, Waleed Harbi Dream | Do | Be <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Carsten Agger <<a href="mailto:agger@modspil.dk">agger@modspil.dk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> I'm trying to get a friend's computer to work with Ubuntu 10.10. Everything works fine, except the graphics card, an Nvidia GEForce 9800 GT. After a default installation, the screen blanks after booting, meaning the monitor suddenly says "No input". This is probably due to the failure of the free "nouveau" nvidia driver. In order to even boot the computer, it's necessary to remove the boot parameters "quiet splash" and replace them with "nomodeset". This, however, disables 3D acceleration. Installing the proprietary Nvidia driver from System/Additional drivers produces *exactly* the same result - a blank screen, no input received by the monitor. We also tried downloading the newest driver from the Nvidia web site - this made the screen blink while trying to launch X, after which it bailed out to terminal login. Does anyone know how to make 3D acceleration work with this card? Apparently it worked in 8.10 and 9.04 but has been broken in 10.04 and 10.10 (don't know about 9.10). I was unable to find any help on the wiki, alas. best regards and thanks in advance for any suggestions, Carsten -- <a href="http://www.modspil.dk" target="_blank">http://www.modspil.dk</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>