Had the same or similar problem with driver for newer nvidia cards... I did a apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx, then a dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, and rebooted and reinstalled via the manager.. it's now working fine.
-- Restricted drivers manager damages my xorg.conf [Nvidia Legacy Drivers] https://launchpad.net/bugs/92849 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
