I just installed Ubuntu 11.10, i386 on my Dell Latitude E6500. The installation was fine, but then X11 didn't start.
/var/log/X.0.org says:
(EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
...
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load NVIDIA kernel module!
I installed nvidia-current
apt-get install nvidia-current
but no luck.
Just in case: 10.10 works just fine.
Thanks!