Comment 21 for bug 239536

I have just bough Asus En9600GT Nvidia and I was experiencing random gdm crashes on open source driver in my Xubuntu Hardy. So, I installed EnvyNG from ubuntu's repository and installed latest nvidia driver with its help. I still had gdm crashes, but nvidia driver was working okay. However after reboot I lost it. I was being dropped constantly to VESA driver instead of nvidia binary one and was not allowed to boot with any other driver but open source to get my gdm working normally. So in effect I had crashing gdm on open source and no way to play a 3d game on my Xubuntu Hardy. That is until I found this here thread. After reading it I installed manually latest nvidia driver from nvidia web site (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.05-pkg1.run) and... it works like miracle. No gdm crashes. No VESA on reboot and 100% working nvidia binary (until next kernel update I hear) :)