I had to refer so many blogs and docs to get this working.. I am posting that here so that anyone else having the same issue might find this useful.
- Boot with Xorg server default configuration first.
- Open up Synaptic and remove every installed package having the name "nvidia"
- Reboot again (this is a must)
- Install these Nvidia packages except "nvidia-xconfig" package (which got the bug)
nvidia-glx-177
nvidia-*-modaliases
nvidia-kernel
nvidia-kernel-common
nvidia-177-kernel-source
nvidia-settings
- Reboot again
- Run sudo nvidia-xconfig
- Restart X server.
From many blogs and forums, many have said that this corrected their issue.. but unfortunately, not mine.. I checked the Xorg.log and could see the line that the file "libglx.so" was missing due to some reason. Then I got a suggestion from another blog to link the file libglx.so.169.12 to libglx.so.
# sudo -s
# cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
# ln -s libglx.so.169.12 libglx.so
# init 6
That worked! And, I became another happy Intrepid Ibex user :-)
PS: This bug might have fixed with the latest updates so, I also recommend doing a complete update before trying these steps!
