Nvidia drivers totally broken.

[pnunn]

Hi folks,

I've just spent the best part of a day trying to get the bloody nvidia drivers working again on my laptop.

I was chasing a few things not working properly so began playiing with the drives which resulted in no X every time I tried to use them.

I've purged all of the nvidia drivers from muon and command line (when I do that I get a boot using a generic driver (I think) that limits me to vga resolution).

Then, every time (well almost every time, it did work once on 304) I get a text boot and start x throws an error.

The x log has the following in it.

[ 69.566] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[ 69.566] (EE) NVIDIA(0): system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[ 69.566] (EE) NVIDIA(0): consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[ 69.566] (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
[ 69.566] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failing initialization of X screen 0
[ 69.566] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 69.566] (II) UnloadSubModule: "shadow"
[ 69.566] (II) UnloadSubModule: "wfb"
[ 69.566] (II) UnloadSubModule: "fb"
[ 69.566] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 69.566] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 69.566] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 69.566] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 69.566] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 69.566] (EE)
[ 69.573] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

I have tried 304, 319-update and 334 from edges all with the same result.

This was working, I don't know if it's a kernel issues (now running 3.11.0-18-generic) or what's going on. I've switched back on the intel controler and am using that now, but I don't get my dual screens with this setup (no bumblee or optimus stuff installed either).

I've removed Xorg.conf, replaced it with a know good one, move .kde, cleared the apt-cache, done about everything I can think of, but every time I install the optional drivers now and reboot with the nivdia chip enabled.. it fails no run X.

Any ideal? I really don't want to have to re-install just to get this working.

Ta
Peter.

[pnunn]

OK, just installed 331.49 from the nvidia site (not using package manager) and it seems to be working again.

[GreyGeek]

Good! (Would you please mark this problem as [SOLVED]. Thanks!)