12.10, problems with Nvidia

[kokoshmusun]

Yeah, I had been using Gnome 3 just prior to this 12.10 disaster. While I quite like Gnome 3, I didn't exactly feel like there's a huge difference between Gnome 3 and Unity. I wish more of linux community effort could be spent toward a lesser number of more awesome options, rather than being divided into all these big projects that look not so different from each other.

[AaronMT]

I had to install headers first with 12.10. then the updates for nVidia worked.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2081649
# You may need headers - meta package for current version:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

# only reason to purge is there are several versions, if you know you have different nVidia use that:
#To see available versions:
apt-cache search nvidia-sett*
# I used nvidia-current-updates & nvidia-settings-updates, example below is just nvidia-current, use version you prefer
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-current
sudo nvidia-xconfig
sudo reboot

May want nvidia-current, nvidia-current-updates or nvidia-current-experimental-XXX for most recent testing version.
apt-cache search nvidia-sett*

Fix for nVidia with 12.10 missing kernel dpkg reconfigure:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2072862

Thanks for posting this, it fixed my update problem I received ion 12.10 tonight.