This was a bug in the nvidia-drivers which meant that everyone got nvidia drivers installed. Purge nvidia-glx-173 and you should be fine.
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- [intrepid] ATI Radeon X1950 not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268100 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs