I'll go ahead and close out this bug report since the original issue is
resolved and we like to keep one issue per bug report. :-)
The screen corruption is a unity-greeter bug. Known issue, and not
driver-specific.
As to the error dialog, I think that is GNOME not Xorg. Try deleting
your
Although the nVidia driver is now loaded successfully I still have two
problems when logging in for the first time after a reboot:
- The screen corrupts for a short while (a few seconds). I see a white
background with lots of differently colored pixels everywhere. After a
few seconds the screen
** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) = nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
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Looks like it isn't finding the kernel nvidia driver. Guess when you
upgraded it updated the kernel but for whatever reason didn't rebuild
the nvidia driver. Probably if you go into grub and boot an earlier
kernel it'd work.
Try `sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*` and then reinstalling
Using the tool nvidia-xconfig I was able to reactivate the nVidia driver in
Xorg. But after rebooting the tool nvidia-settings still complained:
You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X
configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X
Bryce thank you for your comment. I hadn't noticed it, but as it happens
I just rebooted after doing:
sudo aptitude reinstall nvidia-current
Now the video card is working again and the display is automatically
using the correct resolution, although my display still isn't
recognised.
I did not
Apport did not include the Jockey logfile but it might contain relevant
information as Jockey-gtk is unable to activate any of the two nVidia
drivers. Jockey logfile is attached.
** Attachment added: jockey.txt
** Attachment added: screenshot of Xorg errors at startup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/949330/+attachment/2830738/+files/Screenshot%20from%202012-03-07%2018%3A45%3A09.png
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