Are you referring to the binary nvidia driver? The open source driver should work for your laptop, but there could be other issues if the livecd is not able to start X.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-driver-nv (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- No screen display with hardy/gutsy displays from gdm onwards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174120 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs