thats the way I did it some time ago (until the beginning of intrepid ?), but then this installer failed and said my kernel wouldn't fit it (I remember some kind of error message like "the kernel you are installing this driver for is a xen kernel. please get the apropriate driver. setup will quit now.") So I started to try to install the nvidia-driver via synaptic, thats where trouble began :-( I know that drivers from Nvidias website can mix up things, so I uninstalled the old driver via >nvidiadriverfile -uninstall and then tried the following commands to fix the issue:
>sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core >sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx >sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-177 but that didn't do the trick, nor Fred's tip (thx anyway ;-) ) or apt-get install -f -- package nvidia-glx-177 None failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1', which is also in package libgl1-mesa-glx https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269473 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
