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[Colin Keenan <1044060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was having so much trouble with graphics that the dash was no longer
functional. That was why I tried gnome. I was still having graphics
problems in gnome-shell, but it was usable except for the 100% cpu
problem. Unfortunately, after I did the killall gnome-shell and then
restarted gnome-shell, the next time I logged into it, it wouldn't load.
I had accidentally killed and restarted gnome-shell while still super-
user. I've reported a separate bug about that and hope they will find a
way to make gnome-shell work for me again. I had never used it before,
but like it alot.

Anyway, I tried Super+A which I see is the same as just clicking the
dash icon, but graphics went haywire as usual and I couldn't see
anything. After rebooting, I logged into gnome classic no effects. I
searched for "Additional Drivers" in the Ubuntu Software Center, and to
my surprise, it wasn't even installed. After installing "Additional
Drivers", it wasn't on the menus, but from Software Center, I knew the
command was jockey-kde, and ran it from a terminal window (I use guake).
That worked and it detected 3 apparently identical drivers, all named
NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library. It wouldn't
install saying I had held-back broken packages. After an aptitude update
& aptitude full-upgrade, I was able to install the driver.

This proprietary driver has solved all my problems. Their are clearly
very serious issues with the nouveau driver being considered for 12.10,
and the latest one for 12.04 has problems too. The original one for
12.04 was fine, but in the past couple of months, I started having
serious problems, which was why I decided to try the Alpha 3 12.10.
Every upgrade just made the graphics worse. This will be a big problem
for Ubuntu. I have not been able to do a proper bug report for nouveau
or Xorg or anything related. They can't get the information they need to
diagnose the problem. But, the proprietary driver works!

The only reason I had stopped using the proprietary driver in 12.04 is
that for some reason it made the fonts look horrible, and there were
other minor issues as well. Strangely, I could install the proprietary
driver, tweak some things like digital vibrance, remove the proprietary
driver, and the digital vibrance settings still worked while improving
the fonts by using nouveau. Then they upgraded nouveau and it stopped
using the settings I had done with the nvidia driver. Then, the graphics
went to hell.

This latest nvidia driver still has worse fonts than nouveau, but it's
better than before, and I have no choice anymore.

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