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

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 07:50 -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> 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.

Strange, in all of my years of using Linux and nVidia, I have yet to
experience any major problems as long as I stick to the "official"
methods of installing the drivers. With Fedora, you have to get the .run
file and compile your own. The repo drivers failed me more than once.
So, I stuck to using the .run file. With Ubuntu, the hardware driver app
works. Recently though I had to run the NVIDIA X-server settings program
and re-write the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I guess it wasn't happening
auto-magically. That's my 4 cents and my experience. Ric


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