ok i am dual booting vista and ubuntu. ubuntu is on a 100gb partition and vista has the rest of the drive (380 gigs or so). i am using 2x 8800gts in sli. i wanted to use the visual effects of ubuntu for fun so i tried to turn them on. i was required to enable graphics driver. i did and it downloaded and installed version 179.xx i dont remember exactly. it said i needed to reboot for the changes to take place. i did. but when it booted, i got the ubuntu loading orange bar and then it goes into a login shell and i can login but only with text. i can type commands but cant get into any sort of desktop environment. i figured i would try again. i used vista to copy the whole ubuntu partition to an external drive and then wipe the partition. i reinstalled ubuntu and tried manually installing a newer version of drivers, 180.43, with enVy. when i restarted, it did the same thing. what is happening here? i tried removing one gpu and did the whole darn process over again (incase it was because of no sli support) and the same thing happened. maybe the login shell is a good thing? it means that i can boot but not get into my desktop environment?
computer specs: (just incase)
asus m3n72-d mobo
phenom 9850 OC 2.83ghz
2x 8800gts sli
4gb ddr2 800mhz
computer specs: (just incase)
asus m3n72-d mobo
phenom 9850 OC 2.83ghz
2x 8800gts sli
4gb ddr2 800mhz