Comment 0 for bug 84630

This is a problem concerning updating to the latest NVIDIA drivers.

When the package linux-restricted-modules-* is installed a system, and one tries to install the NVIDIA drivers with their third-party installer, the linux-restricted-modules package keeps it's kernel module, while the X server tries to use the driver from the installer; causing a difficult to fix version mismatch. This version mismatch obviously stops the X server from starting.

The ways to fix this are,

1) To remove the installers components, `sh NVIDIA-* --uninstall`
2) To manually delete the modules in /lib that conflict (hackish)
3) To use a third party to gain a more up to date version of linux-restricted-modules

As you can see none of these fixes are very easy or user friendly, so this behavior should be fixed.