What Nvidia card are you using? I have an Nvidia 9800 and it runs great. On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Joe Shisei Niski <joeni...@easystreet.net>wrote:
> > On 06/24/2010 01:02 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > > Over the past few months, as I've had spare time, I've installed a > > couple of versions of Ubuntu on a spare machine. I've had success > > installing 9.10 from CD, but not 10.04. I did succeed in upgrading > > online from 9.10 to 10.04, although I did have to run sudo > > dpkg-reconfigure gdm from a text console in order to get it to work. > > > > With that info I decided that I would try installing 10.04 from CD, > > again. However, when I get to the login screen, I am unable to switch to > > a text console. > > > Both my personal and my employer's laptops have NVidia video cards > (different models, about 3 years age difference). i did clean installs > of Ubuntu 10.4 from the live CD. The installs were easier that earlier > versions. The only difference is that with the older video card, i just > get junk pixels for the boot splash screen and in the virtual consoles! > > By "junk pixels" i mean they're really blocky and for all practical > purposes unreadable, though i can make out the word "login". Better yet, > all the virtual consoles show up twice on the screen, like two columns. > > This has persisted despite all my attempts at tweaking the config, and > even after the recent upgrade to the Nvidia closed drivers. i opened a > bug, but it hasn't gone anywhere. Nothing on the Nvidia forums last time > i looked. > > ________________________________________ > Joe Shisei Niski > Portland, Oregon, USA > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
