NVIDIA FX5500 no ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

Após ficar o dia inteiro tentando instalar o driver proprietário da nvidia no ubuntu 10.10 descobri que ele não da suporte para o xserver do 10.10 só para 0 10.04 como aconteceu com as ati no 9.04 seguinte a solução é um downgrade do xserver segue os passos:

1. Backup /etc/apt/sources.lst and change all instances of "meerkat" for "lucid"
2. In Synaptic, remove xserver-xorg (the following packages were removed: xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-geode xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo)
3. Reload/update the sources and install xorg (this will pull all dependencies.
4. Once xorg is installed, change the sources.lst back to maverick
5. Reinstall nvidia-173 (it will fail to install unless the maverick repositories are back)
6. Reconfigure the xserver: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
7. In my case, I also had to change the alternatives as I had played around so much that the nvidia driver was ignored:

• sudo update-alternatives --config gl_conf
• sudo ldconfig
• sudo update-initramfs -u
• sudo nvidia-xconfig

Restart. Compiz works, and the system is back to normal. In synaptic, select all the recommended updates to xserver and go to Package > Lock Version. They will appear under "PINNED". Do not update them until the nvidia driver is once again supported.




Segui os passos aqui e esta tudo 100% e assim sigo com as gambiarras até que os desenvolvedores da nvidia tenham boa vontade para resolver o problema.