Ubuntu 12.10 and NVIDIA driver incompatibleness makes me frustrated [closed]

Question

Recently Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade was installed. Menu, taskbar, launchpad everything was gone when it launched. I get only the background screen in high resolution. I had this problem after some previous Ubuntu updates and I got the same result so I searched in forums and I knew what I had to do and I followed the steps to reinstall Nvidia driver but now I get the same useless Ubuntu. My parameters: Nvidia driver: 310.32 Graphic card: Nvidia Gforce 430 Ubuntu version: 12.10

These are the steps I made.

CTRL+ALT+F2 to prompt login
sudo apt-get update
I stopped xserver sudo service lightdm stop
sudo chmod 755 Nvidia- LInux-x86-64-310.32.run
sudo ./Nvidia-Linu-x86-64.310.32.run
Installation process started
I get "The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Continue installation anyway?" (Answer: Yes)
I get "Would you like to register the kernel module sources with DKMS? This will allow DKMS to automatically build a new module, if you install a different kernel later. (Answer: Yes)
When prompted to install 32-bit compatibility libraries (Answer: Yes)
I get "Would you like to run the nvidia-xconfig utility to automatically update your X configuration file so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used when you restart X?" (Answer: Yes)
I get ""Would you like to run the nvidia-xconfig utility to update your X configuration Automatically
That file so the NVIDIA X driver will be Used When you restart X? Any pre-existing X configuration file will have backed up." (Answer: Yes)
sudo start lightdm
It returns and I get the same USELESS UBUNTU QUETZAL 

What's going on with Ubuntu? If it cannot work with Nvidia than it worth nothing. Millions of people using Nvidia cards.

Answer 1

Did you try disabling nouveau? I recalled blacklisting was involved with using Nvidia cards correctly.

Or at least that helped me with my GeForce.

Answer 2

Is there a specific reason you installed the driver manually?

sudo ./NVIDIA* --uninstall
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

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install from official repositories

sudo apt-get install nvidia-experimental-310 nvidia-settings
sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
sudo nvidia-xconfig

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if you prefer to run the latest, add the edgers ppa

WARNING IT'S EXPERIMENTAL

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install nvidia-310
sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
sudo nvidia-xconfig

if things go wrong with the edgers ppa

sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers/ppa

Answer 3

I recently had this problem as well. When fiddling with my graphics drivers, the Ubuntu Unity Plugin became disabled (for whatever reason). This might be the problem you're having as well. To check, open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type ccsm. This will open Compiz. From there, check if "Ubuntu Unity Plugin" is disabled. If it is, enable it and disable all the conflicting plugins that pop op, and then reboot. If the plugin is enabled, then this is obviously the wrong solution.