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   Subject: Re: Terminally (sic) sick of nvidia struggle   
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   Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:18:43 -0800   
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   Seaside Peter wrote:   
   > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:50:32 -0500, Derspankster wrote:   
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   >>    
   >> I cannot understand how you could be having this much trouble. The    
   >> Nvidia drivers were likely the easiest thing that I had to install. It    
   >> almost sounds like the kernal has been compromised by all the manual    
   >> deletions you have made.   
   >    
   > Yes, that's what I thought. So I bit the bullet and did a complete fresh   
   > install of Ubuntu 6.10   
   >    
   > Then I downloaded a fresh driver package from Nvidia and sh-d it.   
   >    
   > Exactly the same result as before. Gnome is running but the monitor is   
   > switched off.   
   >    
   > I've checked refresh rates and modelines - all fine.   
   >    
   > The bloody thing just won't work. If anybody else has managed it with a   
   > Geforce FX5900 I'd really like to know...   
      
   I've had good success with tseliot's skript.   
   http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html   
   More reading here:   
   http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=255929   
   Suggest when you run the skript, first select the uninstall option to    
   remove existing nvidia kack. Then run install option.   
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