updates broke nvidia driver

**pickarooney** · November 24th, 2011

I'm running xubuntu 10.10 and yesterday I ran a bunch of standard updates including the kernel and nvidia modules. Now X won't start unless I change to the open source nv drivers in xorg.conf. When I try enable the latest nvidia drivers, jockey throws the following erros (in jockey.log)

Code:

XorgDriverHandler.enable(): package or module not installed, aborting
2011-11-24 21:08:38,869 DEBUG: nvidia_current the driver is not enabled in all of the relevant device sections
2011-11-24 21:08:38,895 DEBUG: nvidia_current the driver is not enabled in all of the relevant device sections
2011-11-24 21:09:08,632 DEBUG: nvidia_current the driver is not enabled in all of the relevant device sections
2011-11-24 21:09:08,653 DEBUG: nvidia_current the driver is not enabled in all of the relevant device sections
2011-11-24 21:09:08,821 DEBUG: nvidia_current the driver is not enabled in all of the relevant device sections
2011-11-24 21:09:08,854 DEBUG: nvidia_current the driver is not enabled in all of the relevant device sections
2011-11-24 21:09:09,114 DEBUG: nvidia_current the driver is not enabled in all of the relevant device sections
2011-11-24 21:09:09,147 DEBUG: nvidia_current the driver is not enabled in all of the relevant device sections

I think I need to go back to a previous driver version but am not sure how.

My card is a GT218 [GeForce 210]

**ptrakk** · November 24th, 2011

have you tried "apt-get install -y -reinstall nvidia-current"
then maybe "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"
what i ended up doing was getting the drivers from the nvidia site then when it gets done go to the properties of it and mark it as exectuable. then ctrl + alt + F1. then CTRL + C. "~/Downloads/NV*"

**pickarooney** · November 30th, 2011

Originally Posted by ptrakk

have you tried "apt-get install -y -reinstall nvidia-current"
then maybe "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"
what i ended up doing was getting the drivers from the nvidia site then when it gets done go to the properties of it and mark it as exectuable. then ctrl + alt + F1. then CTRL + C. "~/Downloads/NV*"

I ended up doing the same and it sorted the problem out.