I have Ubuntu Feisty, and had Beryl installed with the Nvidia driver from Automatix2. Worked fine, until I last time. The X server crashed. So I entered Code: sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg The Vesa driver was selected by default . So I selected NVIDIA and then reloaded the x server. Still an X crash. So I got back to the list and saw that Vesa was again selected. So I selected NV. That got the X server working, but now Beryl returns to Metacity instead of Beryl. I reinstalled the nvidia driver with automatix2, but then x server then crashed again. This also happens with Code: sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx . I also noticed that the options SHUT DOWN, RESTART and LOG OFF where not visible in the shutdown screen (so I had to use SUDO REBOOT). What's going on here guys?
you don't need the -phigh, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg is enough BTW: do you know what adding -phigh actually does check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf try removing nvida-glx n nvidia-glx-new with apt and reinstall either with apt, automatix or aptitude BTW: i'm struggling to run NV drivers here Edit: reboot after removing drivers
I'm using Ubuntu feisty, and I simply used the resricted drivers manager. It installed the nvidia driver with 1 click. -phigh only allows high priority questions to be asked, so he can use it if he wants to. You can use the -h or --help arguments to find out more information. You sometimes get the problem of not having the shutdown options because X is not running as the root user, for example if you use startx. I can't help you anymore though.
Still not working. Could I try to remove the xorg.conf file and then try to install nvidia-glx again?
I solved it! The update manager installed an upgrade to the linux kernel, and headers. This made problems to the driver somehow. I just needed to reinstall Ubuntu.
