i hate nvidia drivers

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 12 June 2008, Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> 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

I understand that it didn't work for you,  but I have the proprietary driver 
on several machines and have never had a lick of problems...  but I have had 
problems with the ones that are provided with the system.

Just providing the other side of the coin.