Activating nVidia Drivers Makes The Desktop Disappear

Jack14112 · 08-06-2011, 08:58 PM

Hey everybody,

I have been trying to install Linux on a olsish computer for a long time now, with no luck :[ Everything goes fine until Ubuntu/mint asks me to activate the nvidia drivers. When I do it and restart and login the there is no desktop.

The computer has a single core amd athlon 64, 1.5gb's of ram and a nvidia 7300gs card.

Hope someone can help,
Jack.

sycamorex · 08-06-2011, 09:02 PM

Hi and welcome to LQ.

Is there any error that you get?

Jack14112 · 08-06-2011, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by sycamorex

Hi and welcome to LQ.

Is there any error that you get?

Thanks. No nothing, I just activate them, restart login and it's gone.

Jack14112 · 08-06-2011, 09:06 PM

Well the first time I installed Ubuntu I could see the desktop but I couldn't click on anything, just move the mouse.