Comment 57 for bug 877905

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George DeKatt (georgedekatt) wrote :

Thanks Marc. Downgraded by installing the debs. Rebooted Didn't not help.
Then I reinstalled the Nvidia drivers again which rebuilds the kernel modules and the issue is resolved.
I don't know which did the trick. Perhaps I should try updating x via Update Manager again and then reinstalling the Nvidia drivers?

The Nvidia driver was downloaded from Nvidia's website.

gdekatt@sandbox:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
...
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7900 GT/GTO/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 275.09.07
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler