Nvidia-glx Won't Work on Hoary

[david]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 03:31, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:08:11PM -0500, David M. Carney wrote:
> > I upgraded to Hoary.
> > 
> > I can live with the butt-ugly mouse pointer if I have to.
> > 
> > But no matter what I try to do, I cannot get Nvidia to work.
> > 
> > It was working perfectly under Xfree and the 2.6.8 kernel.
> > 
> > I tried the way described in the Ubuntu Wiki and I tried using the
> > Nvidia driver (rebuilt using 2.6.10 sources). I commented out dri in the
> > xorg.config file (glcore wasn't in there, so no need to comment it out)
> > and I changed the driver name to nvidia.
> > 
> > What do I have to do to make the darned thing work? I have no
> > first-born-male-children....
> 
> If you have a TNT2 or that era of card, it's known to be broken in the
> latest nVidia driver; they are aware of it and the fix will apparently
> be in the next release.
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________

What I did was; 
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
nvidia is one of the drivers in the list (presumably once you've
installed nvidia-glx) - if you pick nvidia rather than nv at this point
there's no need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf by hand
then
make sure /etc/modules has the line nvidia in it.
then
reboot/restart X

regards

David