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[John Sewell <703688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a video problem after upgrading from Ubuntu 10 to 11.04. The icons
kept flashing. Also the GL screensavers in Xscreensaver eg Engine would
not work. The video is NVIDIA 173.14.30 installed by Synaptic with a
GeForce FX5500 card. The eventual solution was very easy.

 I made a Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal installation disk and booted up on
it. I renamed the original /etc/X11 directory to /etc/X11-hold and then
copied the /etc/X11 directory from the installation disk onto the hard
disk. After removing the installation disk and rebooting the video now
works OK. The GL screensavers in Xscreensaver also work now.

Comparing the new and old /etc/X11 directories showed some extra files
in the old directory and when these were hidden in a temp directory the
old original /etc/X11 directory worked. Notably there is no xorg.conf
used at all. The NVIDIA X Server Settings menu item also works
correctly.

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Title:
  [Natty] Need X-server 1.10-compatible nvidia driver (xorg-edgers ppa)