Comment 28 for bug 350776

Ok, another weekend, another try, and still no joy. I disabled the CD option in the update manager. At least Jockey didn't crash this time. However, the only option in hardware drivers this time was for nv - which appeared to default to nv-173. Jockey looked for drivers but didn't even offer options for 173 much less 180. Attempting to enable effects failed after a search for drivers. So, once again I manually removed nv-180-glx, re-installed it and experienced the failure of X to start. Again, /dev/nvidia0 isn't recognized and so the 8800-GT card at PCI-1:0.0 fails to get initialized and X fails. Back to Vista, again. I'm sooo disappointed that this is taking more than 4 months to resolve as its just getting a graphics driver installed.
Any suggestions or help is greatly appreaciated.
I've been trying to get my nieces interested in Ubuntu but this is giving me caution in suggesting it to them. They're busy enough already and lack my patience.