problem with upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10

Does it just hand on a black screen. The CPU is moot here. Can you tell us your video chip you use

Thanks

Does it just hand on a black screen. The CPU is moot here. Can you tell us your video chip you use

Thanks

No, its a textscreen, it welcomes me to ubuntu and I have to login but it ends with: ake@ake-desktop:~$_
also:
0 packages can be updated
0 updates are security updates

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NV11 (GeForce2 MX/MX 400)
vendor: nVidia corporaation
Physical id: 0
vus info pci@0000:01:00.0
version:a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-2.0 vga_contoller bus_master cap_list rom
configutation: driver=nVidia latency=64 max latency=1 mingut=5
reources: icq:16 memory: e7000000-e7ffffff
Memory: f0000000-f7ffffff

ok if you boot back to root recovery mode and run:

echo "blacklist nvidia" > /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

Then reboot, you should then use the open driver and it should work. You should then uninstall the proprietary driver then reinstall it, then run:

sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

And reboot. The proprietary nvidia driver rarely survives distribution changes so these steps are needed.

I followed your instruction:
ok if you boot back to root recovery mode and run:echo "blacklist nvidia" > /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
but after reboot the screen with ubuntu logo with five red dots is hanging.

Try adding nomodeset as a startup option: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132

Sorry, it didn't work. I have instead changed graphic-card, cpu, dvd-reader and made a new ubuntu 10.10 installation from dvd. Now the computer works better then ever.
Thanks for all help.
Ake