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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package

  1. Bug #626974
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 626974

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paercebal (paercebal) wrote : Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick

Thanks to eMcE's hack, I succeeded in getting my screen back.

Still, there one glitch : Upon restarting, it went on the console, because it could not find the nvidia driver. I guess it was because I installed nvidia-current alongside nvidia-96. The solution was to choose nvidia-96 driver instead of nvidia-current (for my video card, I use the "96" driver).

Please note that before eMcE's last step (Restart), I did edit my xorg.conf file to put it back the configuration that worked for me on Ubuntu 10.04.

The steps were:

1. Start Ubuntu on recovery mode
2. On the ugly menu, choose "failsafe mode for one session only"
3. When logged in, go to Menu -> System -> Administration ->Hardware Drivers
4. You should see two drivers, the "NVIDIA accelerated graphic drivers (version current)" (which is "green", i.e., "in use", and the "NVIDIA accelerated graphic drivers (version 96) [Recommended]" which is not used.
5. Select "NVIDIA accelerated graphic drivers (version 96) [Recommended]" and Activate it (the button on the down right of the window)
6. Restart
7. Enjoy the purple screen

-- Written from my brand new 10.10 Ubuntu on a 1900*1200 über-cool resolution

P.S.: BTW, I hate those left-handed "à la MacOS" buttons, but the new font is really cool !!!