i hate nvidia drivers

[Pablo L. Berdaguer]

I'm using nvidia propietary driver too... but I use the one from the 
repository. I too have those problems with the package downloaded from 
nvidia's site.
If you have the package from nvidia working, could you please tell us how did 
you manage that? Are you using Kubuntu or Ubuntu? Did you have to install 
some extra package? Did you need some special configuration?

Thanks

El Thursday 12 June 2008 17:38:39 Bruce Marshall escribió:
> 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.