> From: Sean Gibbins <sean@???>
> Basically I am running Ubuntu Feisty 32-bit with the aforementioned BFG
> nVidia 8800 GTS graphics card. Upon installation the nv driver was
> selected by default and was, as expected, utterly pants, so I swapped it
> out for the vesa driver until I could get the nVidia drivers installed.
...
> Unperturbed I tried installing the nvidia drivers via the package from
> the nvidia site, but got exactly the same result.
Your old Shuttle had the same problems when I put Ubuntu 64
Feisty on it! The are probably two issues - hunt the Ubuntu
forums for the gory details.
1) Edit the grub menu file to set a sensible default resolution
by adding the phrase "VGA=xxx" where xxx is probably 762 or
somesuch - this forces the splash screen to be displayed in a
sensible resolution.
2) The Nvidia installer has probably got something wrong in
X11.conf - I gave up and Vic Watson fixed it for me, but it was
something along the lines that the display name was a string
rather than the name referred to elsewhere.
These issues are discussed in detail at
http://bugs.launchpad.net
Regards, Stephen
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