[mythtv-users] mythbuntu and nvidia 6200

[Johnny]

> Ok, so when I did the sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart I get the message that it
> is displaying at a low resolution again so it does not work.  I am a bit
> confused as to what to do next.
>
> I then reboot and start up in recovery mode and fix then I am back where I
> started.

What do you mean by recovery mode and fix?

>It seems to me from what I have researched here that this is a lot
> more difficult than when others have done this.  What would I be doing wrong
> and how would I go about getting this to work?

Well from your original post it seems like you tried to install the
driver a bunch of different ways using the package manager and doing
it manually. It highly probable that you messed some stuff up by doing
all of that experimenting. The nvidia driver is not loading for some
reason. That is why you get the low graphics mode. You can look at
your boot log and xorg logs for errors. Try the following to look for
nvidia stuff in those two logs:

grep -i nvidia /var/log/dmesg
grep -i nvidia /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Post the errors here to see if it may help. You may need to make sure
and remove and undo everything you did in the past. Uninstall and
remove the files you added manually. Open up synaptic and search for
packages with names that start like "nvidia-" and uninstall all of
them. Then start of fresh with the "aptitude install nvidia-glx-180"
and "nvidia-xconfig" commands. You are right though that this isn't
supposed to be hard and generally should just require those 1 or 2
commands.