I just got this too, same action except with the nvidia driver. Looks like this is caused by a bad xorg.conf. I removed mine and regenerated one with dpkg-configure xserver-xorg, and it worked fine.
** Attachment added: "XorgConf.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17035860/XorgConf.txt ** Visibility changed to: Public ** Changed in: jockey (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Status: New => Triaged -- jockey-gtk crashed with SystemError in run() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259047 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