Public bug reported:
Sorry for my terrible English, I'm Russian.
Jockey in Lucid in all incarnations (jockey-gtk and jockey-kde) fails
installing Nvidia proprietary driver.
In Lucid default driver for Nvidia video cards is Nouveau, which
provides KMS and other good stuff. But, because of that when you
installing Nvidia proprietary driver, you must disable Nouveau. Jockey
forget about that and fails nvidia install, but after that says "reboot
system!". After rebooting (because nvidia-glx in real installed and
/etc/X11/xorg.conf created) we see conflict of kernel modules, and
Nouveau is still enable.
How to disable Nouveau:
add to /etc/default/grub in line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="{something}" string "nomodeset". This must
seen as GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="{something} nomodeset". Jockey must
do that automatically after installing Nvidia driver and after removing
Nvidia driver must delete this string. I'm Gentoo user (it's a good
google-fu qualification :-) ), and I quickly find this issue, but some
people may have problems with that.
** Affects: jockey (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Jockey doesn't disable Nouveau and says "failed to install nvidia driver"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561435
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