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[Leslie Lewis]

The Live CD was setting them up just fine. They weren't there after I'd done
an install.

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did a clean install of Jaunty (9.04) and everything worked well for
> me this time. The nVidia driver is a restricted driver that needs to
> be enabled. It won't install by default.
>
> In my case, what happened is that the hardware wizard came up after
> the install and told me that I needed two additional drivers. One for
> the nVidia card and another for my broadcom wireless card.
>
> Try booting off the live-CD and then going to
> system>>Administration>>Hardware Drivers
>
> See if the Live-CD is setting them up for you by default. If that's
> the case, you can try a hard disk install and manually enable the
> nVidia driver.
>
> One last thing, my previous version was 8.04 (hardy). I tried
> upgrading to 8.10 (Intrepid) and that was unsuccessful so I stayed
> with Hardy until the Jaunty release. So far my experience with Jaunty
> has been good otherwise I would have reverted to Hardy. Jaunty is the
> first Ubuntu release to successfully detect my wireless card and
> prompt me for driver install.
>
> My laptop is a Dell Latitude D620.
>
> Andrew.
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Leslie Lewis <lesliel8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried installing Jaunty last night after trying out the live CD. All
> the
> > drivers seemed to be present with the CD, but after the install the
> NVIDIA
> > driver was not listed and the wireless wouldn't latch on somehow. I went
> > back to Linux Mint because I know it works and I didn't feel like
> fighting
> > with Ubuntu just then. I know it will be straightened out eventually, so
> > I'll keep trying.
> >
> > Btw, I finally learned a while ago to install /home in a separate
> partition.
> > That means reinstalling is really a non-issue. I really should make
> another
> > partition for Jaunty and dual-boot so I can keep an eye on it and know
> when
> > the drivers start working - maybe that's today's project.
> >
> > Leslie in Canmore
> >
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