nVidia proprietary drivers leaves PC ususable

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Sebi Kul <sebikul at gmail.com> wrote:
:
>
> I wanted to know why this is happening. I tried everything I know to fix
> what was causing this issue, regenerate the xorg.conf(nvidia-xconfig),
> remove nouveau when installing the proprietary driver, but nothing solved
> it.

I had a similar problem when I first tried to use the NVidia drivers
for my desktop and my workstation.  I wound up using the proprietary
driver from NVidia's web site, which works just fine although each
kernel upgrade requires a few extra steps because I haven't taken the
time to figure out how to Upstart it.

Since I upgraded my desktop a couple of weeks ago to an ATI on board
graphics card, I've been able to use the repository driver for that
(this) machine, and it hums perfectly.

HTH.