I'm having a similar problem with my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop running the latest 11.04 Beta 2 install. Unity worked for a while, then Update Manager came up and I installed updates and now I can only run the old desktop. I'm not dual booting this laptop and I'm just running the screen on the laptop itself. When I check the Additional Drivers dialog, it says that the driver is active but not in use.
I tried running the command line given above and got an error when I tried to run the dkpg -l command. Here's the rest of the output: Linux michael-MM061 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 Codename: natty *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:ed000000-edffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:ee000000-eeffffff memory:ef000000-ef01ffff I've also tried the sudo nvidia-xconfig command with no luck. What I find odd is that when I first installed the new OS, Unity worked fine until update manager ran. I've also noticed that there is a long pause during the boot up sequence where the screen is blank. Thanks, Michael King Dublin, OH -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nv in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/763808 Title: 11.04 does not properly load NVIDIA driver for Geforce 9500 GT _______________________________________________ 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