I think you're supposed to stop X before you run nvidia-xconfig. (not sure, it's been awhile)
You may or may not need to add "nomodeset" to the boot command. You should not need to purge and reinstall xorg. I think you do need to blacklist nouveau.
]]>I'm unable to use the nvidia driver. Runing nvidia-settings tells me to run nvidia-xconfig. Either of the above versions of n*-xconfig just kicks me out of X and I have to purge X and reinstall to get back to a graphical environment.
So at the moment, I'm suck at a low resolution screen. Any ideas?
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