Comment 54 for bug 173418

The 173.08 drivers change log says: Fixed a regression that caused invalid EDIDs to be detected for the internal display device on some notebooks. This confirms what the problem is for me. The 173.08 driver also has some other very important fixes and support for new video cards. I wonder how Ubuntu is going to address this one, its not that I am blaming Ubuntu but I am starting to see a lot of people reporting this problem and similar problems. Its a serous enough show stopper for some of us that it should be made official in some way with the Ubuntu developers. It would be nice if there was a nvidia-glx-new-beta driver in the repositories for situations like this. It just makes sense. Or at the very least an official how to on the Ubuntu website explaining how to properly install the nvidia's beta drivers. One of the advantages of having a nvidia-glx-new-beta package is the fact that when using the nvidia driver installer it hacks up the xorg.conf file and stomps on all of the hard work the Ubuntu installer did to correctly configure everything else. For example my synaptics touchpad configuration its now hosed since the nvidia driver installer updated the xorg.conf file for me.