nvidia driver problems

[Mark Greenwood]

On Thursday 02 Jul 2009 01:41:39 Jack Trades wrote:
> (II) LoadModule: "nv"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nv_drv.so
>  (II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>     compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 2.1.12
>     Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>     ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0

This shows it's using the 'nv' driver (i.e. the free one, not the restricted one).

What do you get if you do

uname -a

sudo dkms status

You should see, if you've installed from restricted drivers and not the nvidia download, an installed nvidia module listed against the kernel version mentioned in uname -a. If not, the installation is broken.

Mark