It would seem like this is a problem for a lot of users... I'm in the same boat.
freeallforever, just tell me if I did exactly what you did, maybe there is some overlap that we can agree on that just might solve our issue.
I've download the FreeBSD edition of the Nvidia drivers and installed them as correctly as I can assume. When I try to run the "NVIDIA X Server Settings" from System>Administration I get the error:
Code:
You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver.
Please edit your X configuration file (just run 'nvidia-
xconfig' as root), and restart the X server.
When I run the 'nvidia-xconfig' as root (su), I verify that it wrote it correctly (gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf) and it seems like it did as far as I can understand it. Then, I restart or log off (I've tried both), only to get a black screen with no picture. If I restart enough times, I'll gain access to the recovery mode and I'll re-write (to blank) the xorg.conf file and I'm back to square one.
I've purged the nouveau drivers as suggested by other websites as help for previous versions of Ubuntu.
A peculiarity that I have found however...
When I first decided to install Ubuntu, I tried it as a dual boot with Windows 7 Ultimate x64 as the primary OS. I installed Ubuntu just fine, and all seemed dandy as Unity was activated and worked just fine. The problem wasn't the nVidia drivers as I didn't get far enough to use them, but my screens resolution wouldn't fit the entirety of the desktop at any resolution. The fix was not to dual boot, but to run as a VM. Now, I have VMWare Player running Ubuntu inside of Win7 and it works fine, but Unity is not enabled because I do not have the hardware requirements to run it (EVGA GTX 570 on an i7 w/ 6GB RAM ain't enough?! guess not...). My thoughts were to install the nVidia drivers to resolve the issue, but it hasn't worked.
If you have anymore input, or if you figured it out, let me know!
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