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Newbie Linux user here. I just installed Ubuntu 12.10, dual booting with Windows 8 Preview Release Build 8400 on a Dell Precision 490 workstation with Nvidia Quandro NVS 55/280 PCI graphics card.

I cannot login to Ubuntu - after entering my password and pressing enter, the screen graphics gets garbled for a few seconds, and then the screen goes black showing only the mouse cursor. I suspect it's something to do with my Graphics Card, everything on the GUI login screen feels very sluggish.

I know what I have provided here doesn't give you much information, would appreciate it if I could get some guidance on how to provide more useful logs.

Thank you.

Melon
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mchangun
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The Ubuntu X team has created a stable PPA for the Quadro NVS 160M that should work with your graphics card too.

To Install it follow these instructions.

First you need to add the PPA. 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

Then Update the package list and install the driver 

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings

Then reboot the computer with sudo reboot

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Seth
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