I need the proprietary driver because of a bug in the nv driver which makes my panels native resolution appear wrong, with no way in nv to override. If you don't have this problem you could install xserver-xorg-video-nv and make appropriate changes to xorg.conf to have a working system while this conflict remains.
An ugly way of fixing this for me to get X working in correct resolution was to forcifully install nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx with sudo dpkg --force-conflicts -i nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx_173.14.15-2_i386.deb and then start X with startx -- -ignoreABI This breaks APT, but after starting X with the "nvidia" driver I let APT remove the package again to get it working. This breaks 3D-acceleration, but if it's a crucial feature for you then you can afterwards force the installation of nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx again which should fix that (I tried it and it worked for me. I don't really need the 3D-acceleration though). I am "expecting unexpected behaviour" and I am on the lookout for when this problem is going to be resolved. I already see some quirks in X (newly opened windows disappearing etc) that I guess is related to this ugly "solution". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
