Thanks for the help. Finally got it working by uninstalling the official nvidia driver that was previously installed.
________________________________ From: Jonas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2009 1:51:31 PM Subject: [Bug 322599] Re: nvidia package could not install Sounds like a duplicate of Bug #250486 Have you tried: sudo aptitude reinstall xserver-xorg-core sudo aptitude reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-173 ? -- nvidia package could not install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322599 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-173” source package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Attempted to install proprietary package. Downloaded but install failed. Currently running in low-res Ubuntu, due to driver issues. ProblemType: Package Architecture: i386 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so', which is also in package xserver-xorg-core Package: nvidia-glx-173 None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-glx-173.list] ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-11-generic (bui...@rothera) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1hostname11) ) #1 SMP Thu Jan 22 17:22:40 UTC 2009 SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 Title: package nvidia-glx-173 None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-glx-173.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so', which is also in package xserver-xorg-core Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686 xkbcomp: -- nvidia package could not install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322599 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
