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PenguinPower · 04-27-12, 12:19 PM

After a clean install from, or update to Ubuntu 12.04, the latest NVidia 96.43.20 and 173.14.31 Legacy drivers don’t work anymore due to missing dependencies, caused by a new version of xorg.

Log:
XorgDriverHandler(nvidia_96, nvidia-96, None): Disabling as package video ABI xorg-video-abi-10 does not match X.org video ABI xorg-video-abi-11
DEBUG: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver not available
WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_current failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_current

When trying to install the driver manually or via softwarecentre:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-96: Depends: xorg-video-abi-10 but it is not installable

This is the result of the new xorg version in 12.04. In the past NVidia updated its Legacy drivers pretty quickly in similar cases, hopefully they will do so again this time.

04-27-12, 12:19 PM	#1
PenguinPower Registered User Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 12	NVidia 96.xx.xx & 173.xx.xx Legacy drivers don’t work in Ubuntu 12.04 After a clean install from, or update to Ubuntu 12.04, the latest NVidia 96.43.20 and 173.14.31 Legacy drivers don’t work anymore due to missing dependencies, caused by a new version of xorg. Log: XorgDriverHandler(nvidia_96, nvidia-96, None): Disabling as package video ABI xorg-video-abi-10 does not match X.org video ABI xorg-video-abi-11 DEBUG: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver not available WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_current failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_current When trying to install the driver manually or via softwarecentre: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-96: Depends: xorg-video-abi-10 but it is not installable This is the result of the new xorg version in 12.04. In the past NVidia updated its Legacy drivers pretty quickly in similar cases, hopefully they will do so again this time.