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When I use System Settings-Additional drivers- and try to activate; NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernal module and VDPAU library,

I get this message; SystemError:Unable to correct problems,you have held broken packages.

Is there anyway to fix this? Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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  • Please open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and issue these commands (one by one) sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get dist-upgrade & lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga . What is the output ? Edit the OP and add the results.
    – NickTux
    Feb 15, 2014 at 1:03
  • 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G71M [GeForce Go 7900 GS] [10de:0298] (rev a1) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff31] Kernel driver in use: nvidia toshiba@toshiba-Satellite-P100:~$
    – Bob
    Feb 16, 2014 at 10:48
  • Sorry pretty new at this, I hope this is what you needed.@NikTh
    – Bob
    Feb 16, 2014 at 10:57

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Use this answer to completely remove nvidia drivers from your system.

Then, reboot the system and when you login to your Desktop Environment, open a terminal (open the terminal with CTRL+ALT+T) and issue the following commands (one by one - copy paste them from here to your terminal).

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-173 
sudo nvidia-xconfig

If above procedure goes well, without errors, then reboot once more and it should be fine.

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  • Hello,below is the message after sudo apt-get install nvidia-173. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package nvida-173 toshiba@toshiba-Satellite-P100:~$ I did not enter in the last command because I'm unsure if I should after this E message?@NiKTh
    – Bob
    Feb 16, 2014 at 20:20
  • Did you copy-paste the commands from here to your terminal one by one ? The package nvidia-173 exists. Look here, though the package nvida-173 doesn't . Or maybe you must enable some repository ? Check from software center and enable canonical partners or/and independent example image
    – NickTux
    Feb 16, 2014 at 21:26
  • Copied and pasted the commands one by one. Enabled updates on software centre. OP of the 3 commands; toshiba@toshiba-Satellite-P100:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-173 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done nvidia-173 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. toshiba@toshiba-Satellite-P100:~$ sudo nvidia-xconfig WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file. New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' toshiba@toshiba-Satellite-P100:~$ @NikTh
    – Bob
    Feb 17, 2014 at 0:10
  • And ? Same problem remains ? Reboot your system and see if the problem has resolved.
    – NickTux
    Feb 17, 2014 at 0:13
  • Rebooted system, same problem exists. Except that now nvidia_173, nvidia_304, nvidia_304_updates now show as being active but Nvidia binary Xorg, kernel module and VDPAU library will not activate. Still receive the broken packages message.@NikTh
    – Bob
    Feb 17, 2014 at 0:47

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