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I've upgraded my 12.04 LTS to the new HWE bringing the Kernel to 3.13.0-32-generic #57~precise1-Ubuntu.

My graphics card is a Nvidia 7600 GS and needs to use 304-updates to work. When upgrading to the new HWE the graphics driver was removed and now I'm running on the built in driver.

I can't install 304 as it gives me this error:

 nvidia-304-updates : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 or
                               xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable or
                               xorg-video-abi-13 or
                               xorg-video-abi-14
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any thoughts as to what might fix my problems?

Also if I go to the Additional Drivers page it just turns up blank.

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  • Apparently I'm not the only one: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/…
    – Acid0057
    Jul 23, 2014 at 10:55
  • maybe try booting into an older kernel to reinstall the driver until the bug is fixed
    – mchid
    Jul 23, 2014 at 11:26
  • First time I've encountered this. Switched to Ubuntu a few months ago. How do I boot to the older kernel?
    – Acid0057
    Jul 24, 2014 at 5:50
  • Switched back to the older Kernel. Fixed thanks.
    – Acid0057
    Jul 26, 2014 at 8:59
  • Upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04 solved the problem for me. I must say the upgrade itself was far from straightforward. I had to uninstall ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop, then after the upgrade re-install ubuntu-desktop (from a root shell session, since X was crashing) and nvidia-current. I do not know whether this hurdle was related to the 12.04 HWE issue.
    – Ruud Helderman
    Jul 26, 2014 at 21:22

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