I had a video problem after upgrading from Ubuntu 10 to 11.04. The icons kept flashing. Also the GL screensavers in Xscreensaver eg Engine would not work. The video is NVIDIA 173.14.30 installed by Synaptic with a GeForce FX5500 card. The eventual solution was very easy.
I made a Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal installation disk and booted up on it. I renamed the original /etc/X11 directory to /etc/X11-hold and then copied the /etc/X11 directory from the installation disk onto the hard disk. After removing the installation disk and rebooting the video now works OK. The GL screensavers in Xscreensaver also work now. Comparing the new and old /etc/X11 directories showed some extra files in the old directory and when these were hidden in a temp directory the old original /etc/X11 directory worked. Notably there is no xorg.conf used at all. The NVIDIA X Server Settings menu item also works correctly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/703688 Title: [Natty] Need X-server 1.10-compatible nvidia driver (xorg-edgers ppa) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp