Nvidia Graphic driver won't install

I've always used the driver from the nvidia-vdpau ppa personally

https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa

But it may be a case of !wfm

;)

I've installed vdpau from that ppa, but still it won't work...

here's what i got :

 dpkg --get-selections | grep libvdpau*
libvdpau-dev install
libvdpau-doc install
libvdpau1 install

and then the jockey log, after it said that it went through an error :

(Reading database ... 264391 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-current (from .../nvidia-current_195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-settings.
Unpacking nvidia-settings (from .../nvidia-settings_195.36.08-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nvidia-current (195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-23-generic-pae
Loading new nvidia-current-195.36.24 DKMS files...
Building only for 2.6.32-23-generic-pae
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-23-generic-pae
Done.

nvidia-current.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-23-generic-pae/updates/dkms/

depmod.......

DKMS: install Completed.

Setting up nvidia-settings (195.36.08-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.POSIX.cache...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-23-generic-pae
Processing triggers for python-support ...

[g] 2010-07-12 16:37:51,355 ERROR: update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 because associated file /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 (of link group gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/libvdpau_nvidia.so because associated file /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so (of link group gl_conf) doesn't exist. [/g]

2010-07-12 16:37:52,989 DEBUG: XorgDriverHandler device sections ({0: ['\tIdentifier\t"Default Device"\n', '\tDriver\t"nvidia"\n']})
2010-07-12 16:38:13,363 DEBUG: nvidia_173 is not the alternative in use
2010-07-12 16:38:14,463 DEBUG: nvidia_173 is not the alternative in use

Try installing the driver manually using the following instructions:

http://www.sucka.net/2010/04/how-to-install-nvidia-video-driver-in-10-04-lucid-lynx/

If those instructions don't work, try these (which use the official Nvidia installer):

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-nvidia-drivers-manually-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx.html

At this stage : "apt-get install nvidia-current" when trying the method of the first link, i noticed this :

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update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 because associated file /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 (of link group gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/libvdpau_nvidia.so because associated file /usr/lib32/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so (of link group gl_conf) doesn't exist. [/g]

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and when trying to load the driver , i got this :

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modprobe nvidia-current
FATAL: Module nvidia_current not found.

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