It's not a problem anymore since the nouveau driver is enabled by default - dmesg says:
[ 3.773199] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 3.773203] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 3.774285] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card (0x0a8280b1) [ 3.777899] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PRAMIN [ 3.849238] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... appears to be valid [ 3.849240] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: BIT BIOS found [ 3.849242] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Bios version 70.18.4f.00 [ 3.849245] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: TMDS table version 2.0 [ 3.849246] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Found Display Configuration Block version 4.0 [ 3.849248] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 0: 01000302 00020030 [ 3.849250] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 1: 02000300 00000000 [ 3.849251] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 2: 02011362 0f220010 [ 3.849253] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 3: 01022310 00020010 [ 3.849255] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DCB connector table: VHER 0x40 5 16 4 [ 3.849257] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0: 0x00001030: type 0x30 idx 0 tag 0x07 [ 3.849259] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 1: 0x00102161: type 0x61 idx 1 tag 0x08 [ 3.849260] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 2: 0x00000200: type 0x00 idx 2 tag 0xff [ 3.849264] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset 0xD81A [ 3.909626] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xDAE7: Condition still not met after 20ms, skipping following opcodes [ 3.929418] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xDAEB: Condition still not met after 20ms, skipping following opcodes [ 3.929437] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset 0xDCC5 [ 3.935726] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset 0xE7A7 [ 3.935732] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset 0xE7C0 [ 3.978147] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset 0xE8A7 [ 3.978149] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset 0xE90C [ 3.997996] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xD68E: Condition still not met after 20ms, skipping following opcodes [ 4.473726] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 3 available performance level(s) [ 4.473730] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0: core 135MHz shader 270MHz memory 135MHz timing 0 voltage 850mV [ 4.473733] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 1: core 405MHz shader 810MHz memory 405MHz timing 3 voltage 900mV [ 4.473736] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 3: core 589MHz shader 1402MHz memory 405MHz timing 3 voltage 1000mV [ 4.473758] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: c: core 405MHz shader 810MHz memory 405MHz voltage 900mV [ 4.477740] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected 512MiB VRAM [ 4.480107] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 512 MiB GART (aperture) [ 4.745493] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: allocated 1920x1080 fb: 0x310000, bo ffff88012332dc00 [ 4.745585] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device [ 4.745657] fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device [ 4.745662] [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 [ 18.664237] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'. No need for the nvidia-stuff anymore. ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/964067 Title: nvidia-current and nvidia-settings fails to install automatically To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/964067/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp