®om: Ubuntu doesn't ship with the NVIDIA driver preinstalled therefore it's not true that the system is unusable out-of-the-box. Furthermore you can choose between 173 and 177 and the problem doesn't affect all NVIDIA cards. According to this report Geforce 8xxx are affected. Maybe we could simply blacklist the identifiers of the cards which have this problem.
Can all the users who can experience this problem post the following details?
1) your Graphics card model
2) the output of this command:
lspci -n | grep 300
®om: Ubuntu doesn't ship with the NVIDIA driver preinstalled therefore it's not true that the system is unusable out-of-the-box. Furthermore you can choose between 173 and 177 and the problem doesn't affect all NVIDIA cards. According to this report Geforce 8xxx are affected. Maybe we could simply blacklist the identifiers of the cards which have this problem.
Can all the users who can experience this problem post the following details?
1) your Graphics card model
2) the output of this command:
lspci -n | grep 300