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go_beep_yourself
July 13th, 2008, 04:54 PM
Anybody know what's going on here?

root@ubuntu:~# dpkg -l | grep nvidia
rc nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.13-19.44 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'new' driver
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1ubuntu8 NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
ii nvidia-settings 1.0+20080304-0ubuntu1.1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv
root@ubuntu:~# apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx-new
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-glx-new is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 78 not upgraded.
root@ubuntu:~#

LinuxIsInnovation
July 13th, 2008, 05:48 PM
Do this as sudo. Also, does this package show up as installed in Synaptic?