official nvidia driver from their site cannot be used in feisty beta?

Bug #97204 reported by Coz
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #92836: Handle customized xorg.conf. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

hello,
 installed Feisty beta, did all updates, build-essential.
Downloaded the recent 9755 nvidia driver from their site.
All went well.
Booted into feisty -- no problems
System/Preferences/Desktop effects-- and this is the message I received;
  "Your /etc/X11/xorg.con has been manually changed. Sorry,
restricted-manager cannot be used with customized configurations
    Call "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" to switch back
to automatic configuration handling."
   I prefer ONLY to install the driver that I download from NVIDIA's site.
I never use nvidia-glx, ever, so this is apparently a serious bug.
Now I am going to enable the wacom driver and if i get the same or similar message
i will reprot that as well.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 27 18:49:34 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

This is basically the same as bug 97208 - because both are caused by a restriction of desktop-effects.

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