@Avery Day your last solution worked for me. Running Kubuntu 8.04 with 7600GS. Installed the beta drivers right from the word "go" on a clean install, X would fail. The crucial part for me was to blacklist the "nv" driver. Without blacklisting nv, I would get this: API mismatch: the client has the version 173.08, but this kernel module has the version 71.86.04. Please make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver... etc etc
I agree with being able to install beta drivers from the repos, that would be nice. -- [Hardy] NVIDIA cards using vesa driver and low screen resolutions on livecd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs