My last comment was rather vague so let me explain the whole situation:
I downloaded and installed a clean copy of Intrepid yesterday, after
having what I perceived as problems with software after trying to
upgrade from Hardy. Note that while I was having problems with some
programs, I did not have any problems with the NVIDIA drivers, and they
seemed to work as they did before the upgrade.
The clean install went smooth until I had to reboot after updating the
system and installing the NVIDIA driver. It came to a black screen
saying that there was an error with loading the NVIDIA driver. I then
created a new configuration using the non-proprietary drivers in order
to get back up and running. Thinking that it might have been a problem
with the xorg.conf file, I opened a terminal and ran nvidia-xconfig
(without sudo privileges by chance) and happened upon this error:
PARSE ERROR: Parse error on line 34 of section Module in file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.
"Disable" is not a valid keyword in this section.
Clearly, something was wrong. I then opened up the xorg.conf file to
see exactly what was going on. The file was sparse, and incomplete,
withholding a lot of the information it normally contains. Seeing the
problem, I then went through with the nvidia-xconfig and it seemed to
write it proper.
I rebooted the machine only to see it error out again. This time,
however, the error was different, complaining about the RgbPath line. I
reconfigured the X server again, edited out the line and restarted. It
came to balck screen once again this time (as my comment states above)
complaining about the Load "type1" line in the Modules section. I
removed this line as well, and rebooted once again. Another error came
up stating that it could not find the nvidia module.
At this point, my guess would be that both the packages as well as the
xorg.conf generated by dexconf are broken. I'm going to attempt to try
this all one more time and, if unsuccessful, seeing if the driver from
NVIDIA's website will have any better of an outcome. I'm attaching the
broken NVIDIA configuration, the configuration generated by nvidia-
xconfig, and the non-proprietary, xorg.conf.
** Attachment added: "Broken NVIDIA Xorg Configuration"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18309486/Broken%20NVIDIA%20Xorg.conf
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Failed to load module "nvidia"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273801
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