Interesting!
I got rid of the official driver -- a great joy, as usual. Then, I installed the edgers version.
Everything went smoothly, until I tried to install 'nvidia-settings'. For some reason, apt-get *thought* I had an unmet dependency. It reported that it required 'screen-resolution-extra' >=0.12. The odd thing was... I already had 'screen-resolution-extra' 0.16 installed on this box. Go figure.
After the umpteenth try, I was still getting a screen full of error messages, but somehow it magically worked.
Code:
vindsl@Zuul:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-304
nvidia-304:
Installed: 304.116-0ubuntu1~xedgers~saucy1
Candidate: 304.116-0ubuntu1~xedgers~saucy1
Version table:
*** 304.116-0ubuntu1~xedgers~saucy1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/ saucy/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
304.88-0ubuntu8 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ devel/restricted i386 Packages
vindsl@Zuul:~$
vindsl@Zuul:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-settings
nvidia-settings:
Installed: 304.116-0ubuntu1~xedgers~saucy1
Candidate: 304.116-0ubuntu1~xedgers~saucy1
Version table:
*** 304.116-0ubuntu1~xedgers~saucy1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/ saucy/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
304.88-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ devel/main i386 Packages
vindsl@Zuul:~$
vindsl@Zuul:~$ apt-cache policy screen-resolution-extra
screen-resolution-extra:
Installed: 0.16
Candidate: 0.16
Version table:
*** 0.16 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ devel/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
vindsl@Zuul:~$
Isn't testing fun?!?!?
EDIT
Whoops! Looks like I somehow snagged the Saucy version(s).
Oh, well. Back to the inkwell...