A regular aptitude upgrade installed the updated nvida-173-modaliases and has made my maverick machine useless. I get a black screen after starting X. No gdm/login appears. /var/log/Xorg.0.log indicates no problems at all; it reaches "enabled".
Maverick/GeForce GT 330M/Sony Vaio f-series -- ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626974 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