So, in order to fix an issue I was having with the Nvidia driver (weird drawing issue of the titlebars), I decided to upgrade to the latest version of the Nvidia driver. This turned out to be quite an ordeal, because after upgrading, X didn’t want to start, giving me issues like “Failed to initalize GLX extension” and “Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode”. After fighting with this for a few hours, I finally found the info I needed. Here’s what I did to solve the issue:
- Remove all nvidia packages with Synaptic Package Manager
- Remove linux-generic and linux-restricted-modules-generic packages as well
- Install build-essential and lib6c-dev packages
- Download latest nvidia driver from their website.
- Stop X (hit CTRL-ALT-F1) and run:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
- Verify that gdm is indeed dead – there might be some processes still hanging out – be sure to kill them.
$ ps -ef | grep gdm
- Install the new driver:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86*-pkgx.run
- Accept all defaults
- Restart X:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
This will hopefully fix the issue — it did for me!
