FYI, Nicolas' suggestion #7 and #8 worked perfectly for me. After downgrade of Xorg and reboot, no X was configured. I dLogged into tty and followed with
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-173 After reboot all was perfectly OK with graphics. My WLAN network cards didn't initialise on first reboot, but was fine on second reboot -- probably totally unrelated. I have Dell Insprion 8600 with the following card 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 64M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948053 Title: nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 uninstallable on Precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/948053/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ 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
