I just got mine up and working basically following kiran's directions.
I used the alternate CD to do a regular install and then to do a rescue install, which I backed out of to get to the shell and change the grub boot options to create a text mode option (with the nouveau.modeset=0 as well). I also changed quiet splash to nosplash.
The install gave me a warning that the preinstall script didn't work, but I took a look at it and all it does it fail so you don't overwrite the ubuntu packages, I continued anyways. I also let it reconfigure my settings and then rebooted and now it works.
After running all the updates, I modified the grub option again and after booting up I enabled the restricted driver from Ubuntu (looks like it's a couple sub versions back) and it works too.
My thinking is you might be able to just get away with adding the nouveau.modeset=0 and nosplash.
Now I just need to get my touchpad scrolling figured out. Also, I had to modify the right alt key in the keyboard layout, I switched it to the left win key instead.
I just got mine up and working basically following kiran's directions.
I used the alternate CD to do a regular install and then to do a rescue install, which I backed out of to get to the shell and change the grub boot options to create a text mode option (with the nouveau.modeset=0 as well). I also changed quiet splash to nosplash.
I booted up using the text mode option I created.
Then I installed this driver: www.nvidia. com/object/ linux-display- amd64-195. 36.24.html
http://
Updated 64 bit version of what Douglas had mentioned: nvidia. com/XFree86/ Linux-x86_ 64/195. 36.24/NVIDIA- Linux-x86_ 64-195. 36.24-pkg2. run -O nvidia.sh
wget ftp://download.
The install gave me a warning that the preinstall script didn't work, but I took a look at it and all it does it fail so you don't overwrite the ubuntu packages, I continued anyways. I also let it reconfigure my settings and then rebooted and now it works.
After running all the updates, I modified the grub option again and after booting up I enabled the restricted driver from Ubuntu (looks like it's a couple sub versions back) and it works too.
My thinking is you might be able to just get away with adding the nouveau.modeset=0 and nosplash.
Now I just need to get my touchpad scrolling figured out. Also, I had to modify the right alt key in the keyboard layout, I switched it to the left win key instead.