My problem was a variance on this theme, disabling NVIDIA drivers did not work after the upgrade to 8.10 (from 8.04). I checked xorg.conf and the driver was not changed to 'nv' even though the GUI status showed the NVIDIA driver(177) deactivated - my reason for deactivating was frequent complete crashes with no recourse to a terminal. I then found that the problem was gnome-session-daemon which reported my monitor as 'unknown' its a Dell P992 and offered a maximum 1024x768 at 50hz - looking at the NVIDIA X Server Settings application showed the same resolution but 85 hz and any changes were blocked. Currently I keep the system going by stopping the gnome-session-daemon in 'system monitor' and avoiding all changes which re-activate it e.g. Screen Saver If the daemon starts it overrides the NVIDIA application and reverts to the low settings and crashes. Does this justify a separate bug?
-- On upgrading to Intrepid Ibex unable to activate nvidia restricted driver using the "Hardware Drivers" app https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278665 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
