Comment 2 for bug 562226

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Confirmed using an installation from Ubuntu lucid-desktop-i386.iso dated 2010-04-16.

This has a severe impact on all NVidia Video card users, since you must remove a driver before you can install a driver. Just to verify this, I did find the driver is use is nouveau using:

find /lib/modules/ -type f -ls -iname '*.ko' | grep -E "/nvidia-current.ko|/nvidia-173.ko|/nvidia-96.ko|/fglrx.ko"

returns blank;

grep -E "LoadModule:.*\"nvidia|fglrx|nouveau\"" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

returns "nouveau".

Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!