Comment 12 for bug 226993

In frustration, I purchased a MSI NVIDIA GeForce NX8600GT. To my horror,
this made no difference.

Driver works as "NV" (hence no 3d)
but not as "NVIDIA"

I have tried everything I and many others on the web can think of.
Nothing works, The new NVIDIA driver is a dud!

Is there some way to revert the system back to 7.10 (which worked fine)?
I cant afford the time or money this 8.04 upgrade has cost me.

Thanks Ralph Richardson.

Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old which should show why the nvidia
> driver fails. Probably it's due to API mismatch between the X driver and
> the kernel module. Check /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
> that it doesn't have any modules in DISABLED_MODULES.
>
> ** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: xorg => linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24
>
>