Login failure after latest update for: 10.04.1 LTS (64-bit; nvidia)

[Tom Browder]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 07:46, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/07/2010 06:32 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 17:00, Tom Browder<tom.browder at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> After an upgrade today I get the good GUI login screen, login, screen
>>> goes black, flashes a little, NVIDIA logo shows, system thinks a
>>> while, then I get kicked back to the login screen.
>>>
>>
>> I got a little farther--changed to kdm from gdm and am able to get
>> limited graphics by using the failsafe login.
>>
>> Still haven't found the graphics related item that changed.
>>
>> This is a laptop with results of "lspci | grep -i vga":
>>
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98M [Quadro NVS
>> 160M] (rev a1)
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>> Thomas M. Browder, Jr.
>> Niceville, Florida
>> USA
>>
>>
>
>        Do you have the latest nVidia drivers installed? There are a way to
> get the driver using apt-get but I do not have this off the top of my head.

That's what I'm trying to find out, Karl--nvidia has always been a
pain for me.  Having some luck googling around.

Thanks.

-Tom