Nvidia driver problem after Gutsy => Hardy upgrade

[PleegWat]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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.
>   
Alas, it doesn't seem to be that simple. I've tried an unmodified 
xorg.conf for the first try after installing the driver, but that didn't 
work. I've tried having nvidia remodify it after rebuilding it with dpkg 
as well, without any luck.

I suspect I may have some leftover bits from earlier attempts (as well 
as those on gutsy/feisty) bothering me. I'll look into that some more 
when I get back from work this afternoon.