NVIDIA Drivers not playing nice with Ubuntu 8.10

[TheInternal]

Hi all!

I've found a few folks with a very similar problem to my own via Googling, but I've not found a solution.

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my primary computer, Monolith, which uses the ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe motherboard and two XFX Geforce 7950 eXtreme graphics cards in an SLI configuration. Monolith has Windows XP MCE 2005, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 8.10 installed (GRUB and the Longhorn boot selector are working fine).

Whenever I install the nVidia release 177 driver and restart, upon restart, GNOME won't launch. I didn't encounter this issue on my other computers.

I'm a linux noobie, so I've already tried a reinstall once to make sure it was the graphics card driver (it was). Does anyone know of a fix or solution (or at least a way to disable the driver rather than bother reinstalling again)?

 

[Nothinman]

Log into the console as root and run 'less /var/log/Xorg.0.log' and see what errors are at the end of the file.

Do the drivers included with Ubuntu not work?

 

[TheInternal]

the default drivers work, but GNOME fails to load when I enable the nvidia drivers... thus screen stretching and not running at 1920x1200.
I'll give your suggestion a try in the morning. Thanks for the reply.