NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu

  1. Bug #643895
  2. Comment #52

Comment 52 for bug 643895

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azuluaga (alexander-zuluaga) wrote : Re: nvidia propietary driver fails to load X with geforce 310M

Thanks Yorik and Philip.

Finally it worked. First I tried to uninstall nvidia drivers as Philip said by executing the installer with the option --uninstall. After this I reeboted my machine and the desktop had some weird behavior such as not top bar (minimize, maximize and so on) on the windows or alt+tab didn't worked. So I had to reinstall the nvidia drivers to recover my dekstop.

After read Yorik post I tried by first uninstalling libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx. Then I uninstalled nvidia drivers using the installer and rebooted my machine. I started again and stopped the gnome dekstop using an non graphical environment (CTRL + ALT + F1) with sudo service gdm stop. So, installed libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx with sudo apt.get install libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx, rebooted again and it worked!!

Now I can start Stellarium :-)

Thanks in advance.

By the way, I had no idea of the libgl1-mesa* existence ;-).