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[Nick Parker <662797@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The proprietary driver installation wizard installed 173.xx when 260.xx
would have been the correct driver* for my card model. While the machine
was technically functional on 173.xx, the performance was
noticeably/subjectively poor and videos were showing the wrong hue**. I
was able to manually solve the problem by installing 'nvidia-current'
and removing 'nvidia-173' using apt-get. After doing so (and rebooting),
videos were showing the correct colors and the compiz ui was much more
responsive. I used the 'NVIDIA Driver Version' field in nvidia-settings
to verify which version of the driver was running.

Lenovo Thinkpad T61p, running Ubuntu 10.10 stock.

$ lspci -nn
[...]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro FX 570M] [10de:040c] (rev a1)
[...]

*See 'supported products' tab: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-260.19.12-driver.html
**Example of incorrect video (same effect, different cause): http://www.wiredrevolution.com/ubuntu/fix-blue-tinted-video-in-ubuntu

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Proprietary driver wizard installs incorrect NVidia driver version
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662797
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