Public bug reported:

My laptop has a NVIDIA GeForce 660M GTX as dedicated video card and I am
unable to install nvidia-current due to a dependency that's impossible
to resolve (see below).  This s especially frustrating since the only
"fallback" is nouveau, which keeps crashing Unity rather often.

What can be done to install nvidia-current? I am on 12.10 alpha 3.

apt-get install nvidia-current
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-current : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not installable or
                           xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: nvidia-settings but it is not going to be 
installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.1:
 
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: 
[core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
CurrentDmesg: Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 --nocheck-order 
/var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit code 1: comm: /var/log/dmesg: No such file 
or directory
Date: Fri Aug 24 13:25:22 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:0fd4] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:2115]
MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. G75VW
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-11-generic 
root=UUID=aff65d94-f6e8-4f5f-931b-18bca0e81361 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UdevLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/udev'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/15/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: G75VW.210
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: G75VW
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrG75VW.210:bd06/15/2012:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnG75VW:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnG75VW:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: G75VW
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.38-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.4-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.4-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.99.905-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 
1:6.99.99~git20120713.6ef1ad6a-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.1-4~ubuntu1

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug compiz-0.9 quantal running-unity ubuntu

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