Hi Alan, Thanks for your help.Heres what i got for each command.Still the error at install phase :( john@john-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: dkms* nvidia-173* nvidia-96* nvidia-current* nvidia-glx-185* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 133MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y (Reading database ... 148110 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nvidia-173 ... Removing all DKMS Modules Done. Purging configuration files for nvidia-173 ... Removing nvidia-96 ... Removing all DKMS Modules Done. Purging configuration files for nvidia-96 ... Removing nvidia-glx-185 ... Removing nvidia-current ... Removing all DKMS Modules Done. Purging configuration files for nvidia-current ... dpkg: warning: while removing nvidia-current, directory '/usr/lib/nvidia-current/tls' not empty so not removed. dpkg: warning: while removing nvidia-current, directory '/usr/lib/nvidia-current' not empty so not removed. Removing dkms ... Purging configuration files for dkms ... Processing triggers for python-gmenu ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_IE.utf8.cache... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for python-support ... john@john-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IE Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [191B] Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg Ign http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IE Ign http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_IE Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/smplayer/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IE Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IE Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IE Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IE Ign http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en_IE Ign http://download.skype.com stable Release.gpg Ign http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_IE Ign http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_IE Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg Ign http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_IE Ign http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_IE Ign http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_IE Ign http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_IE Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IE Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release Get:2 http://dl.google.com stable Release [1,310B] Ign http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable/non-free Translation-en_IE Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release Ign http://download.skype.com stable Release Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages Hit http://linux.dropbox.com lucid Release.gpg Get:3 http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages [964B] Hit http://download.skype.com stable/non-free Packages Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages Hit http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages Ign http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IE Hit http://linux.dropbox.com lucid Release Hit http://linux.dropbox.com lucid/main Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_IE Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_IE Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_IE Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_IE Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources Fetched 2,465B in 3s (676B/s) Reading package lists... Done john@john-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install dkms nvidia-current Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dkms nvidia-current 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/26.4MB of archives. After this operation, 78.7MB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously deselected package dkms. (Reading database ... 147759 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dkms (from .../dkms_2.1.1.2-2fakesync1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-current. Unpacking nvidia-current (from .../nvidia-current_260.19.06-0ubuntu1~xup1~lucid_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up dkms (2.1.1.2-2fakesync1) ... Setting up nvidia-current (260.19.06-0ubuntu1~xup1~lucid) ... Loading new nvidia-current-260.19.06 DKMS files... First Installation: checking all kernels... Building only for 2.6.32-24-generic Building for architecture i686 Building initial module for 2.6.32-24-generic Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.32-24-generic (i686) Consult the make.log in the build directory /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/260.19.06/build/ for more information. dpkg: error processing nvidia-current (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Processing triggers for python-gmenu ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_IE.utf8.cache... Processing triggers for python-support ... Errors were encountered while processing: nvidia-current E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)