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A side note to the install of LL 2.6 on my Dell Latitude E6410:

After a successful install of LL I decided to try the NVIDIA video drivers offered as options under Hardware Drivers. There were four NVIDIA drivers listed, two for version 340.96 and two for version 304.131.  I tried one of each and in each case got strange behaviour on startup:

  - The feather boot screen was replaced by a text version "Linux Lite 2.6" with dots below it
  - My desktop background was replaced by the xfce mouse one
  - The window font sizes changed
  - The line for "temp1" went missing in the output for the sensors command (which I use in conky)

During boot I saw error messages flash by (stuff about udev and systemd).

I changed back to the Linux Xorg driver and all returned to normal, so this is not a big problem for me, but I thought I should report it.

My E6410 has a 1440 x 900 screen and lspci gives:  VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)

For what it's worth. 

Andy N1KSN

Hi,
the same with my Dell 6430. I believe the driver does not recognise correctly the primary and secondary display (I use external HDMI screen).

Andy, can you please screenshot the Install Drivers window.

Jerry, I've taken the screenshot you asked for.  How do I get it to you?

Jerry, right after taking the screenshot and asking for instructions to post it, I took another look at the NVIDIA selections. 

I saw that only one of the four was "tested."  Well, duh!  :-[  I tried that one, and it worked just fine.  This was the 340.96 from nvidia-340. 

One of the two I tried yesterday that didn't work well was the 340.96 from nvidia-340-UPDATE, which I assumed was an newer version.  The boot screen is still the text-ish one, but I had also changed the grub menu to set the graphics to "auto" (and can't remember the original setting, which wasn't my 1440 x 900 display resolution).   

I can't remember which of the two 304.131 entries I tried yesterday that didn't work. 

I am a bit embarrassed that I didn't originally try the tested driver, but I hope this info is of some use to you and your team.  I'll post the screenshot when you tell me how to do it.

Cheers,
Andy

This is the screenshot, Jerry.

'Tested' is the default one to use, good job