Nvidia driver problem after Gutsy => Hardy upgrade
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Mon Apr 28 20:32:43 UTC 2008
PleegWat wrote:
> Ilya Vishnyakov wrote:
>> Please see this thread (there is solution)
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+bug/173
>> 418
>>
>> "For those of you having problems with the nvidia restricted driver
>> either crashing X or displaying a black screen with Ubuntu 8.04 use the
>> latest nvidia beta driver found on the nvidia website it is version
>> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg1.run. I am running the Quadro NVS 140M on a
>> Dell D830 and this fixed my problem. The driver can be found here
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html and then click on archive and
>> find the 173.08 driver.
>>
>> Here are the steps:
>> 1. Purge the nvidia restricted package if installed by doing a "dpkg
>> --purge nvidia-glx-new"
>> 2. Kill the gdm server, "/etc/init.d/gdm stop"
>> 3. Install the driver mentioned above.
>> 4. start gdm server "/etc/init.d/gdm start"
>> When X starts you should now see the nvidia logo with the the words beta
>> in red. If you don't edit you xorg.conf file and replace nv with nvidia
>> and restart X."
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of PleegWat
>> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 12:18 PM
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Nvidia driver problem after Gutsy => Hardy upgrade
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got a nvidia 6600 series graphics card, which has always needed
>> some fiddling to get to work with the nvidia binary drivers. This
>> time round however, I don't seem to be able to get it to work at all.
>>
>> The xorg.conf below works fine with nv, but when I replace 'nv' with
>> 'nvidia', it won't work. I've tried both the nvidia-glx and
>> nvidia-glx-new drivers. The hardware driver screen suggests the latter.
>>
>> PleegWat
>>
>
> No luck. The beta driver installs correctly, and when I load the
> kernel module manually (modprobe nvidia) it loads successfully.
> However, X won't run with it.
> I also tried using dpkg to regenerate xorg.conf, but the resulting
> xorg.conf loads NV.
> Modifying that file to force nvidia results in an X that won't start.
>
> In that thread someone also suggested removing the
> nvidia-kernel-common package. I've considered that before, but some
> packages depended on it that looked important. On a second look, most
> of those were dummy, so I removed the package. However that didn't help.
>
> I've attached 3 xorg.0.log and 2 xorg.conf files:
> - ,big: The first one, with the nvidia-generated altered version of
> the xorg.conf I started with
> - ,small: After I recreated the xorg.conf with dpkg
> - ,no-common: After I removed the nvidia-kernel-common package.
> xorg.conf for this one is the same as ,small
>
> If the list scrubs them, but you're interested in them, I can probably
> put them up somewhere.
Guys I have been using the nVidia drivers for a year now. If you
read what it does it writes a kernel driver, writes a new xorg.conf and
saves the old one, and replaces a couple of other files.
If you reboot you should have to do NOTHING!! You will see a rich
brown Desktop and all will be working fine.
Here is my xorg.conf now:
karl at karl-desktop:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister at builder3) Thu Feb 14
18:20:37 PST 2008
# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "ServerLayout"
# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
# InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "cursor"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 28.0 - 64.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100]"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600"
"720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
karl at karl-desktop:~$
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