i hate nvidia drivers

[Willy K. Hamra]

back in feisty and gutsy, i always ran into problems using nVidia
problems, and ending up with a lot of weirdeties,  so on hardy, i
sticked to the driver supplied in the repos, and didnt use the one from
nVidia's website, it was working  fine, actually it was working
perfectly! but some sort of stupidity hit me today and i decided to
install the one from nVidia's website! BAD DECISION! after reboot it
complained about some "displayconfig-gtk" package needed, so i went to
console and installed it, then it complained about hardware not
recognised and i need to edit my settings, i edited them, X runs, but...
nvidia settings will complain that the nvidia driver is not used, so i
run "nvidia-xconfig" which stores the info about the driver in
xorg.conf, and i end up with "displayconfig-gtk" complaining about a not
detected hardware! if i configure anything, xorg.conf gets edited, and
"nvidia-settings" won't be happy, so i got stuck. i restored a backup
xorg.conf (after uninstalling the nVidia driver), and thought i was
done! alas, i was wrong again, the restricted driver manager is showing
me nvidia driver unticked, so i ticked it, and restart X, to get
nothing! somewhere some file got edited and was not restored.but after
the gutsy problems, i learned my lesson, i had a whole system backup
just before the driver install, so now while i am writing this message,
tar is digging through the hard drive restoring my files back,
hopefully, everything will return to it's previous state, and taking a
mental note to never install nvidia's driver till at least kubuntu 10.xx :P

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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