Comment 64 for bug 173418

There is a better way than to uninstall the nvidia-kernel-common package and that is to blacklist the nv driver. I originally tried to do this in the "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" file but that failed hence the reason why I said to uninstall the nvidia-kernel-common package (I was in a hurry). The right way is to black list the nv driver in the "/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common" file.

Revision 3
1. Download the 173.08 nvidia beta driver here http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html click on archive and find the 173.08 driver.
2. Purge the nvidia restricted package if installed by doing a "dpkg --purge nvidia-glx-new"
3. Kill the gdm server, "/etc/init.d/gdm stop"
4. Install the driver downloaded in step 1, unless you are brave you need to let the nvidia installer modify the xorg.conf file.
5. Black list the nv driver in the "/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common" (should look like this DISABLED_MODULES="nv")
5. start gdm server "/etc/init.d/gdm start"