I also upgraded from 8.04 and after that I also had issues with the nvidia driver until this week when I finally found out what helped.
When looking in the package manager I found that even though I had selected to use the nvidia 177 driver, the package was not installed. When I manually installed the package, it also installed the source package and the kernel-headers-rt (real time kernel)!!!!! which off course was not correct. Trying to uninstall the kernel-headers-rt said it had to uninstall the nvidia 177 driver too which I did not want. In the end I installed the correct kernel source package (kernel-headers-generic) and this triggered dkms to rebuild the nvidia driver. After a reboot finally the startup (without the splash) showed it succeeded in loading the nvidia kernel driver and from there on I was able to set it up using the 'Hardware Drivers'. One last thing I needed to do do enable dual monitor setup was to run sudo nvidia-config and sudo nvidia-settings Hope this helps -- Ubuntu 8.10 breaks nvidia drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267188 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
