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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package

  1. Bug #626974
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 626974

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Martina Neumayer (martina.neumayer) wrote : Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick

Update:

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1) Remove any form of Nvidia drivers , configuration files and anything related to it. I dropped to vesa drivers but that is not necessary.
1) Backup /etc/apt/sources.lst and change all instances of "maverick" for "lucid"
2) In Synaptic, remove xserver-xorg and jockey-gtk
3) Reload/update the sources: sudo apt-get update and install xorg and jockey
There may be needed reboot.
4) Install the Nvidia driver which you know worked with Lucid. In my case it is 195.36.24
5) change the sources.lst back to maverick
6) Reconfigure the xserver: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
7 ) Now run these commands one after the another :
-- sudo update-alternatives --config gl_conf
-- sudo ldconfig
-- sudo update-initramfs -u
-- sudo nvidia-xconfig
8) Now using synaptic lock the version of these downgraded packages (xorg, nvidia-current, etc ) so that they don't get upgraded automatically
9) Restart.