I recently purchased a new Dell XPS 14, I was dual booting Windows 8 with Ubuntu 12.10. Initially, I had problems with getting the NVidia drivers to work correctly. When I reboot after the driver installation the Ubuntu dash doesn't appear, just the wallpaper. I'm aware that this is a current issue and I have read other peoples solutions and still can't successfully get the proprietary drivers to work. I've tried installing Linux-source and Linux-headers and reinstalling the drivers several times. No solution that I could find seemed to have worked. Here is a list of the hardware I'm running.
Intel core i7 3517U CPU
4 GB DDR3 RAM
NVidia GeForce 630M 1GB dedicated graphics
500GB HDD with 32GB mSATA
I am really not sure why this doesn't work, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
nomodeset
is not active in grub. You can start grub by pressing shift while booting. and then presse
to edit the boot entry, and see thatnomodeset
is not in any line. (just a random guess) alternatively you could try one of the two experimental drivers (both are actual »releases« from nvidia. particularly the 310 brings many speed improvements.