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nvidia-common package

Latest Nvidia update 3 days ago killed Unity3D

Bug #982024 reported by Abhishek Kharvadi on 2012-04-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #982485: [regression] Nvidia 295.40: Unity 3D does not work at all with the new nvidia driver. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nvidia-common (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello,

The latest update a few days ago that was sent out for Nvidia drivers killed my Unity Desktop. I thought it was just a one time thing. So I re-installed it and it was the same again. I am unable to use Unity3D at all. When I login, it starts up with a black screen and once in a while, it will display the wallpaper for a sec and then the black screen will roll down from top in ugly animation.

I have produced output from my dmesg and history.log for your information.

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Abhishek Kharvadi (abhihello) wrote on 2012-04-15:

dmesg and history.log file Edit (31.0 KiB, application/zip)

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Rex Rask (rexineffect) wrote on 2012-04-15:

Hey I'm looking for this driver in the synaptec and in software center to uninstal and see if it works. what is the package name so I can check this out?

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Rex Rask (rexineffect) wrote on 2012-04-15:

Or even better yet, what exact package did you uncheck after your fresh install in the update manager? I'm new to linux trying to get a handle on it. I'll do a fresh install, uncheck that package and see if it works for me also. Thanks!

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Rex Rask (rexineffect) wrote on 2012-04-15:

Hey,
Ok what I did was on the computer with the current graphics problem (a little different than yours, I could use my computer), I uninstalled the Unity package. I can't remember exactly which one I clicked in the synaptec package manager. It ended up uninstalling: libunity-core-5.05-5, libunity-core-5.0-dev, unity.
Then I tested the graphics again the normal way it would screw up. It worked. So if this can help identify, like I said I'm new to this.
I am currently reinstalling to test this with a fresh instal because it also removed a lot of Ubuntu shit once I restarted. I have to go through like 30 more minutes, I'll let you know.

If anyone has comments, anything would be appriciated seeing how I am shooting in the dark here.