nVidia proprietary drivers leaves PC ususable

[Basil Chupin]

On 20/03/2011 15:02, Sebi Kul wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> For a better understanding I will separate my problem in two 
> fragments, both of which converge with the same problem.
>
> The first time I had this problem was a couple of months ago (while 
> using Ubuntu 10.10), when upgrading the nVidia proprietary driver 
> using the "~ubuntu-x-swat" ppa.

Why did you do that? Why not use the System>Administration>Additional 
Drivers (like you did below for Natty)? The [recommended] nVidia driver 
installed this way works very well.

[pruned]

> The second time this happened was a few days ago, when I upgraded to 
> Natty (clean install). As usual, I installed the propietary drivers 
> using jockey (known as "additional drivers"). I had two optios, 
> nouveau or the propietary one. I of course chose the last one, to get 
> the best out of my video card.
> When I booted, I encountered my pc unusable. As I did last time, I 
> started a fail-safe X session, removed the nVidia proprietary driver, 
> and installed nouveau, just to be able to use my PC.

Natty has not yet been released and therefore the nVidia driver has not 
yet been provided by nVidia for Natty. You'll have to use the nouveau 
driver for now.

BC

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