On 28 November 2010 01:15, danteash...@gmail.com <danteash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all. > > My name is Dante, big fan of Ubuntu and all that; but I have a problem, and > I wonder if you guys can help...my laptop hates Nouveau, you see. > > If I try and run Ubuntu on it, then I am faced with a non-starting X > session. Now I'm not any good at this, I'm a non-programmer! Appending > 'xforcevesa' to the boot options seems to work, but that only works in 10.04 > (10.10 does not respond to this, nor 'nomodeset') to get to 10.10, I need to > install 10.04 and upgrade...any suggestions? It works fine as soon as I > install the NVIDA driver...
So what is the problem? If it works fine with the nvidia driver then use that. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
