...And thus ends my experience with Kubuntu. At least for now.

[Brendan]

On Sunday 28 October 2007, David Kramer wrote:
> It wouldn't bring up XWindows.  I just got a blank screen.
>
> In safe graphics mode, I (after a few tries) got a blue background and a
> white cursor for a few seconds, then that died, too.  I end up back at
> the text mode list of starting processes, the last one being
> /etc/rc.local, but nothing happens after that.
>
> Yes, I verified the media.
> Yes I burned a second disk and got the same results.
>
> Graphics card is an evga GeForce 8600 GT.  Apparently, I'm not alone.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell/+bug/121163
>
> Maybe I'll try it again some day on another machine (like my existing
> server, once the new one is online.  I am *so* not doing a text-mode
> install.

Did you try installing the NVidia driver from their site?
wget 
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.19/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run

sudo sh ~/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run -n -a 
Let it edit your xorg.conf
X should be good when you kick off startx
To check for 3d:
glxinfo | grep direct

If this all fails, you tried VESA and of FB?

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