Nvidia Graphics on Ubuntu 10.04 Beta

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I have a few IBM Netvistas I got at a Government Auction and I'm setting up Ubuntu 10.04 on them. All have 1.8GHz Pentium IV CPU's, 384MB Ram, 40 GB Hard Drives and Nvidia Vanta Graphics with 32MB Ram. I keep getting graphics errors when starting so the computers turns on a basic graphics mode. At the point I can only get 1 resolution.. I never had this problem with 9.10., Any help.

Works with 9.10? I dont know what to tell you. 9.10 has another year of updates. Or wait for the 10.04 beta to end in a month?

Have you tried NVIDIA's proprietary driver? You'll need the legacy one for that card.

I noticed with Ubuntu 9.10 and below after I installed Ubuntu it will automatically have a Pop-Up that asked if you wanted to enable the proprietary drivers. However 10.04 doesn't do that and when I click on Hardware Drivers if just says no proprietary drivers present and doesn't give me the options to enable them.

Then 10.04 isn't aware of your nVidia board.

Not only are you using Linux, but you're using a beta release of a distribution thereof. Breathe deeply, say "why am I surprised", and go back to 9.10. I'm sure you could make 10.04 work, but it would require a fair amount of knowledge and effort.

Since 10.4 is still beta, they may not have everything in order yet. Go to NVIDIA's site and try the latest driver. If that still doesn't work, I think it's better to wait for the final. It's pretty pointless troubleshooting it now.

The two gentlemen posting ahead of me are correct. It is not standard for the Ubuntu betas to auto detect proprietary drivers. The developers are not keen to introduce complications they cannot fix.