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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package

  1. Bug #948053
  2. Comment #108

Comment 108 for bug 948053

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linuxbastard (linuxbastard) wrote : Re: nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 uninstallable on Precise

Hi,

Just for "fun" I did a clean install of 12.04. Did updates then went through the precise proposed steps again.

I didn't get the crash, but again am stuck in 640x480. Uninstalling both nvidia-173 and nvidia-173-updates brings me back to 1024x768.

lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)

uname -r
3.2.0-26-generic-pae

lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia 7098356 24

dpkg -l | grep nvidiaii nvidia-173 173.14.35-0ubuntu0.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
rc nvidia-173-updates 173.14.35-0ubuntu0.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-settings 295.33-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-settings-updates 295.33-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

Maybe it's just me. ;)