Xorg nvidia issue with Kubuntu Hardy.. HowTo enabling nvidia restricted driver preference over the free nv

[Juan Kawada]

Now that you have display, you could go to kmenu>system>Hardware Drivers
Manager. That's the easy that worked for me.


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Lea Gris <lea.gris at noiraude.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> What is the proper way to setup preference on the Nvidia restricted driver
> over the free generic nv driver?
>
> On my laptop with nvidia 9600 wide screen 1280x960, Kubuntu load the free
> nv driver and it fail tu properly setup the screen, so I can't reach/see the
> desktop environment.
>
> So, using shell, I installed the restricted-drivers and nvidia-glx.
>
> But Xorg still decide to load the free nv driver instead, and as it fail to
> properly setup a wide screen properly and miss the hardware OpenGL, I ned to
> avoid this.
>
> For now, I manually edited Xorg.conf and added a line
> Driver "nvidia" into the Device section.
>
> This enable me to load and access the Kdesktop environment on my laptop
>  using the Nvidia restricted driver, but this raise a major issue:
>
> Adding hardcoded driver into Xorg.conf, break the new Xorg
> autoconfiguration feature and it may break uppon upgrades.
>
> The Kde system I use is installed on an external USB drive to be moved and
> booted on different computer unit/configuration/locations like school lab or
> friend's PC, not only my laptop.
> So I realy need the Xorg autoconfiguration to work without any hardcoded
> device setup. The GFX card may vary from Intel, ATI, Nvidia...
> When it detect an Nvidia GFX card, it need to use the restricted non-free
> driver and not the nv driver.
>
> How can it be done?
>
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> Léa Gris
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