elementary does not work with nvidia graphics card

[Abhay Rana]

The desktop in question runs maverick, and natty flawlessly, but I'm unable to install the restricted drivers as this machine is offline. The issue is with the display. In both live cd mode, as well as installed, the same bug reappears. The screen is all blurry and fuzzy. At this stage, it is impossible to do anything at all.

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

I think this is becouse nivoua (or sth like that :/ ) does not support your graphics card.
For the Live-CD: you have to to press F5, and select no-modeset or sth like that I think. Try it out.

[donald iljazi (1lj4z1-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

eduard, do you mean nouveau? :D

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

yeah :) so does it work for you?

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

that with the live-cd: you have to press f5, when you see the grey screen of isolinux when you boot from the cd, so at the beginning. It wont fix I think, couse this has to do with nouveau.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

The issue here, if I'm understanding correctly, is not the drivers, but rather that elementaryOS is not shipping some drivers that Maverick does. I'll look into this. If it turns out that we are not removing any drivers that would cause this, the original bug reporter will need to contact Nvidia, as the issue would then be out of our control.

[Jacky Leggs (mttrackmaster38)]

This is still happening. Are there any drivers I can install with the recovery mode to make the desktop boot right?

[Jacky Leggs (mttrackmaster38)]

I've found a workaround. Boot into recovery mode and enter the terminal. Then run this: "sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau" with no quotes. The stupid nouveau driver shouldn't have been included in elementary os anyway.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

"The stupid nouveau driver shouldn't have been included in elementary os anyway."
It's included in Ubuntu by default, why shouldn't we ship it as well?

Now this looks like a regression-update from Ubuntu to me, not like an ebuild bug.

[Maurice Rogers (cruzer45)]

Hi Guys,

Has anyone taken a shot at a guide to address this until it gets fixed in the next release?

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Remove some mesa package name of which ends with "-experimental" ?