After a long and futile effort to get the nvidia drivers installed on Ubuntu 6.06 and now 6.10 (same machine), I have figured out what the problem is but I don't know the solution.
The issue is that at boot, X complains about the old version of the kernel modules and quits. I have the latest kernel headers and sources, and I have reinstalled the driver multiple times. Now, I can run:
/etc/init.d/gdm stop
rmmod nvidia && modprobe nvidia
/etc/init.d/gdm start
and X/Gnome start fine, along with the driver chugging along happily.
This is where I got the solution from but the problem occurs after every reboot and I want to make X start ok without the need for this...
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/I..._package_occur
Thanks in advance
-anubis26