I'm at my wits end here. This is my last effort before I go back to Windows.
I need to get nvidia-96 proprietary driver installed. Synaptic won't install it because it says it has dependencies. I installed every single dependency it listed except for "xorg-video-abi-10" which does not show up as an item that can be installed. I have no idea what to do. Using 11.10 with a NVIDIA Geforce 3 GPU.
Anyone know how to get this dang driver installed?
@fossfreedom: the opensource driver is extremely slow. So slow that the OS is unusable—words appear seconds after I type them—programs take forever to perform actions. Also it is causing my monitor to turn on and off for no reason.
@yossile: synaptic shows that I have xserver-xorg-core installed. And xserver-xorg-core-udeb does not show up as something that can be installed.
@papseddy: when I try to install the downloaded nvidia driver it says it won't work until I disable Nouveau kernel driver. I have tried everything to get this dang Nouveau kernel driver disabled. Nothing has been successful.
Best Answer
I had the same problem on my xbmc box. I made a package that satisfied the xorg-video-abi-10 adn installed a file to tell xorg to ignore the abi mismatch.
https://launchpad.net/~diehard67/+archive/xorg-abi-compat-hack
it is a hack but it worked for me and hopefully it works for other people.