The steps provided by Alberto in comments 1 and 3 appear to have fixed my problems with the nvidia driver. glxgears is now happily reporting:
25952 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5190.263 FPS I'm not entirely sure what the steps did, so I can't really describe what the actual problem was. -- Intrepid: Latest update destroys X server configuration on MacBook Pro (Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT, nvidia-glx-177) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263528 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
