Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #661248
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 661248

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Alfred Homan (alfredhoman) wrote : Re: Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT doesn't work with nvidia-current 260

It simply does not work with kernel > 2.6.32.
Affected all ubuntu systems > 10.04 LTS.
Changing nvidia driver does not help at all.

This is clearly not an nvidia-graphics-drivers but a regression in the linux kernel or kernel options.
Guys who build kernel for the ubuntu should just make a diff on 2.6.32 and find out what has been broken.

Affected hardware:

Asus M2N-68 (AMD on AM2) / NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (pci-e)
Acer Aspire 5920G (Intel Core 2 Duo T7300) / NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (pci-e)
some AMD 64 system / NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS (pci-e)
N86PV-GS (AMD on AM2) / NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX (pci-e)

Solution I use for now:

sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.32-21
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic
sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic