[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#521216: Ugly way to resolve

[Daniel Andersson]

I need the proprietary driver because of a bug in the nv driver which
makes my panels native resolution appear wrong, with no way in nv to
override. If you don't have this problem you could install
xserver-xorg-video-nv and make appropriate changes to xorg.conf to have a
working system while this conflict remains.

An ugly way of fixing this for me to get X working in correct resolution
was to forcifully install nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx with

sudo dpkg --force-conflicts -i nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx_173.14.15-2_i386.deb

and then start X with

startx -- -ignoreABI

This breaks APT, but after starting X with the "nvidia" driver I let APT
remove the package again to get it working. This breaks 3D-acceleration,
but if it's a crucial feature for you then you can afterwards force the
installation of nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx again which should fix that (I
tried it and it worked for me. I don't really need the 3D-acceleration
though).

I am "expecting unexpected behaviour" and I am on the lookout for when
this problem is going to be resolved. I already see some quirks in X
(newly opened windows disappearing etc) that I guess is related to this
ugly "solution".