Jockey doesn't disable Nouveau and says "failed to install nvidia driver"

[Valdos Sinus]

Sorry for my terrible English, I'm Russian.

Jockey in Lucid in all implementations (jockey-gtk and jockey-kde) fails to install Nvidia proprietary driver.

In Lucid default driver for Nvidia video cards is Nouveau, which provides KMS and other good stuff. But, because of that when you installing Nvidia proprietary driver, you must disable Nouveau. Jockey forget about that and fails nvidia install, but after that says "reboot system!". After rebooting (because nvidia-glx in real installed and /etc/X11/xorg.conf created) we see conflict of kernel modules, and Nouveau is still enable.

How to disable Nouveau:

add to /etc/default/grub in line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="{something}" string "nomodeset". This must seen as GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="{something} nomodeset". Jockey must do that automatically after installing Nvidia driver and after removing Nvidia driver must delete this string. I'm Gentoo user (it's a good google-fu qualification :-) ), and I quickly find this issue, but some people may have problems with that.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Jockey has been superseded by software-properties, which now handles
third-party driver configuration.