Comment 18 for bug 106217

As to why people are messing with there nvidia drivers at all, here is how I fell into this:

- boot 7.04 from a live cd
- use restricted manager to install nvidia (thought id try it out first)
- it finishes ok but then says needs to reboot, which I did not do figuring the changes would go away rather than work as it was on a cd not a writable file system
- install to a hard disk (new format)

This installs X11 stuff thinking it can use nvidia as it is on the live cd but the restricted stuff is not installed and X11 doesn't startup.

It seems like a bug to me that changes to a live cd boot that need to reboot to start working have an effect on the install to hard disk. Eventualy I gave up and booted the live cd and installed to a formatted disk, then booted the hard disk and ran the restricted driver manager there ok.