Comment 3 for bug 322673

Hello,

I am reluctant to do what you suggest because after trying each of the nvidia packages in turn, I had to reinstall Ubuntu after each failed package because when booting with any of the packages installed I only booted into a command line. I got various messages to the effect that I no longer had a screen and my attempts to edit xorg.conf ended in disaster. I tried to import a different xorg.config on a floppy, and then a USB stick from a very similar computer with the same motherboard, version of Ubuntu and make of hard disc but the machine with the problem deleted everything on the floppy and everything on the USB stick

However I can tell you the steps that I took when the disasters happened:

I clicked on System/Administration/Hardware Drivers and then clicked on the recommended nvidia driver; clicked 'Activate' and then rebooted. On rebooting I ended up with a command line. I could enter my user name and password but was unable to get the desktop back. I tried various options in "Recovery Mode" but none helped.

I then re-installed Ubuntu and (foolishly) tried one of the other nvidia packages and exactly the same thing happened. In all, I re-installed Ubuntu three times hence my reluctance to 'fiddle around' with nvidia packages again.

I only did it in the first place because I had used one of the recommended nvidia packages on a different computer with a slightly different nvidia card and was very pleased with the outcome.