michielv

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Hello,

I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) and have a Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 video card.
In the past I tried doing a distribution upgrade using "Adept Manager" and always got the warning that there were no compatible drivers for the new distribution.
So I waited hoping that this would be solved in the future.

Yesterday I tried upgrading to Kubuntu 9.10 and there was no warning any more, so I thougt everything would go nice.
After more then 2 hours upgrading packages, installing and a reboot, the graphical user interface didn't start any more.

I tried to install the nvidia driver using "envyng" from the console.
I tried every possible of the 3 proposed drivers without succes.

Fortunately I made an image before the upgrade (hoera Clonezilla!) and after restoring my image I'm now back at the beginning of my journey at 8.04.

Why do I have a working GUI if I boot the live CD of Kubuntu 9.10, but an upgrade doesn't work?

Many thanks for any help.

velomoose

I just upgraded a box to Ubuntu Studio 9.10 Karmic Koala last night...and I have a mx440 as well. The live cd and install use a generic driver, like a framebuffer driver or vesa. To get the accelerated nvidia driver, you have to run version 96 driver or older from nvidia. Look in the nvidia archives, you may have to download the binary, bail to single user mode, then install the nvidia driver manually.

Make sure you pull the kernel development and kernel-source packages from synaptic for your current version before running the nvidia installer.

Best Regards...

michielv

That is exactly what I did, running de 96-driver without succes.

velomoose

If you back out to the text console ctrl+alt+F1, and log in...execute:

sudo /etc/init.d/init 3

Type

startx

and post the log file it will state information has been written to.