I would also like to add something else to my fix. After rebooting X will fail with the beta driver. I have no idea why but the only way I was able to fix this was to uninstall the nvidia-kernel-common package in addition to the nvidia-glx-new. So here is revision 2 of the work around.
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 and the nvidia-kernel-package if installed by doing a "dpkg --purge nvidia-glx-new nvidia-kernel-common" 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. start gdm server "/etc/init.d/gdm start" -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 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
