Kubuntu 12.10 upgrade

[Mark Fraser]

On Tuesday 23 Oct 2012 18:25:55 Chuck Peters wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Mark Fraser <mfraz74+ubuntu at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > I've now upgraded a desktop machine with Nvidia graphics and the old "this
> > driver is activated but not in use" bug is back and I have a text
> > Plymouth loading screen again.
> > 
> > Any ideas how to solve both problems?
> 
> Which driver is that, the nvidia-96 or nvidia-173?  Have you searched
> for a bug report?  If you can't find one, please file a bug report and
> let us know the number so others can find it.

Neither of them, it is nvidia-current-updates which seems to be version 
304.43. It was working fine on that computer before the upgrade and Additional 
Drivers used to say "This driver is activated and currently in use."

> Last release, 12.04,  we had problems with the older nvidia cards and it
> was a few months (I think 3-6 months depending on which nvidia driver
> you needed) until they were resolved.  I ended up buying a new AGP video
> card for a friend to help resolve the issue and improve performance.  On
> another machine I found an unfriendly work around that involved pinning X
> packages from the previous release, and those kind of work around's can
> lead to further problems.

This is a fairly new GeForce 210 card.