nvidia-177 == Pure Evil
Okay, Ubuntu fans, if you’re having trouble with Xorg doing bad things1 and you’re running an NVidia graphics adapter in your system (with the nvidia-177 driver), reboot into single-user mode (in LILO, type “linux single”; in GRUB, edit the kernel line to add the word “single” to the end), uninstall that mofo and downgrade back to the nvidia-173 (sudo aptitude install nvidia-173), reboot once more, and resume regular work2.
That was an irritating way to start the day …
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“Bad things” in this context means “X never starts,” “very strange ‘CPU soft freeze’ errors appearing in your logs,” and “vein bulges out in your neck.” ↩
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One minor annoyance — if X pops up in “low-graphics” mode, hit [Cancel], log in as root, rmmod nvidia, then modprobe nvidia, and restart X again with “/etc/init.d/gdm restart” (replace gdm with kdm if you’re running kubuntu, or xdm if you’re running xdm). ↩
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