Well, the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fi...esolutionHowto
didn't work since that wasn't the problem to begin with. After reading up
on how to properly install the video drivers for my card I realized I
hadn't installed squat the first time and I'm still running the default
driver. Another try with the instructions from the Nvidia webpage got me
this:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run

Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0-9755...


The Nvidia Installer window comes up and I get this message:

Error: Nvidia Installer must be run as root


A quick search on "Run As Root" yielded confusing results - as in I don't
know what this means or what I should be doing. (sigh) I think I'll go back
to using my old sig file.

Mike

"Computers are a lot like women. Once you think you've got the damn thing
figured out, along comes something new to make you look like a complete
idiot."