> I took the risk, clicked on "apply", watched the packages load but during > the installation got the message "Free nouveau kernel module conflicts with > non free nvidia module. Reboot". I saw several messages of the form:
Hmm... maybe I'm wrong but this gives me the impression you were not using nvidia's proprietary drivers, which which case you don't/didn't need `nvidia-settings` because `xrandr` (and the various front-ends for it) should have worked fine. Am I missing something? Stefan