dusf wrote: > nvidia-current is the proprietary driver, no? It is, but it suspiciously old version. What video card do you have? dusf wrote: > Used synaptic to uninstall xserver-xorg-video-nouveau This is not enough. You need to prohibit kernel from loading it in the first place, or Nvidia driver won't start properly. To do that add "nomodeset rdblacklist=nouveau" to the kernel boot options and reboot.