<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.28.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi guys some assistance or ideas? Installed a fresh copy of 10.04 32bit My Desktop with NVIDIA 6500 pci-e card crashes or X crashes after I installed the Nvidia Restrcited Driver from ubuntu repository. The mouse still moves around though but the machine is unresponsive to any clicking, the PC locks up with black screen only. Seems to also affect the Screen-saver. The NVIDIA drivers shows screensaver nicely but crashes my system. When I use the Plymouth driver my relolution sucks especially in browsing, text seems "jittery" for a lack of a better word. I Can't find anything related to this on the web so went on a mission and reported it to another thread on the ubuntu forum with similar issues. Oh and can't drop into terminal ALT F1 with NVIDIA drivers does not ask for password and prompts login again but with Plymouth drivers that works fine. This my initial issues and have had the following responce and did as explained. below: From "dino99" if you can open "synaptic" (system admin synaptic), tell me if, in the repo tab, you have some third party repo or ppa activated, in case uncheck them.(of course, all the repo need to be with the same distro and release) You should only have: nvidia-current, nvidia-current-modaliases, nvidia-common and nvidia-settings installed. now into console: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -f sudo dpkg --configure -a sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm sudo dpkg-reconfigure plymouth sudo update-initramfs -u sudo grub-mkconfig && update-grub so with synaptic: first remove/purge the nvidia packages installed (right click) then install the ones i've given in the previous post From me: My settings in Synaptic was / is: enabled Canonical-supported OSS (main) enabled Community-maintained OS (universe) enabled Proprietary drivers for devices (restricted) enamled SW restricted blah blah (multiverse) under Other Software enabled only <A HREF="Http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu">Http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu</A> lucid partner Updates enabled (lucid-security) enabled (lucid-updates) Nothing else. On my quest removed all nvidia stuff with synaptic and installed nvidia-current nvidia-settings have to install nvidia-173-modaliases have to install nvidia-96-modaliases nvidia-common then Did the console commands, and rebuilt. Then used System Administration hardware to enable NVIDIA driver again. That is the correct wat to enable it, yes?? So I Started a FTP download from local repositry (ftp://ftp.saix.net 10.04 server 32) and X crashed after some screensaver activity, I'm sure. I was able to get into console ALT F1 this time but it seems if my path was "environmental variable's" was lost, had to cd into filesystem to see what I could run. I could not execute "top" to check what's holding up the processor but it seems as if the cpu was working overtime 100% utilisation because I could see after hard reset over heating / high heat from the bios sensor. This usually, tells me cpu worked to hard a minute before my hard reset. This is more or less what my inital symptoms were and still is. As I said with the Kernel (plymouth) driver, all seems stable but resolution is crap when browsing and screensaver is very slow. Can GLX have something to do with this I red somewhere to revert to glx 1.2, current version is 1.4??? does this make sense or ring any bells? I don't know how to down grade this but could find out I'm sure. I'm trying my best to understand all this and I'm not a programmer so stabbing in the dark here? Any ideas? Christo </BODY> </HTML>