Nvidia graphics card problem?

[Tycho Andersen]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've raised this subject before and got some replies but I stupidly
> erased everything in my folder before I'd archived it....  I remember
> somebody suggesting the fault would most likely be the graphics card.
> Does that mean I'll have to install the nvidia drivers?  And how should
> I do that when I can't get into KDE?

To install the latest and greatest binary driver from nVidia, you can
install the nvidia-glx-180 package. You can do this from the command
line by typing:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180

To get to a command line, you can do one of two things: boot your
machine up in recovery mode (when grub asks, select your favorite
kernel in recovery mode). Alternatively, you _might_ be able to get a
console by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 when your machine goes crazy after
booting up, although the first way is a sure bet.

HTH,
Tycho