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I just downloaded the developer driver from Nvidia's CUDA Zone. Executed it and typed in restart gdm and the it worked. However after rebooting X didn't come up (xorg log), to fix it I can simply rerun the installer and the restart gdm again.

What I don't understand is where it breaks and why X11 doesn't find the module?! I removed all (I think..) of the Nvidia packages which can with Ubuntu 10.10. I've also googled a bit and found some HOWTOs about manually installing the Nvidia driver. However all of them were for an earlier version of Ubuntu.

Please do not respond telling me I should use the proprietary Nvidia driver supplied by Ubuntu, because I need the development drivers.

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  • According to the log, the XServer is trying to load the module nvidia which you most likely removed. Maybe you can fix this by using a static xorg.conf, if the dev-driver-module has a different name.
    – Bobby
    Feb 15, 2011 at 22:03

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I've written about it on the Ubuntu Forums: HOWTO: install or uninstall nVidia drivers.

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  • Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. Sep 8, 2012 at 20:51

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