Breezy & NVidia Drivers

[Lewis Futrell]

I actually waited until I upgraded my kernel to the k7 variety before I
loaded the Nvidia modules.  When I rebooted all I got was a white screen
with no NVidia logo and a hung system.  Remembering that I had a similar
problem with Hoary, I added the following to my xorg.conf file in the video
driver category:

Option	"NVagp" "1"

This forced the nvidia video driver to use the Nvidia AGP driver instead of
the agpgart driver.  I now get into X fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamon Camisso [mailto:jamon.camisso at utoronto.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:49 PM
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: Re: Breezy & NVidia Drivers

Steve Kratz wrote:
> I got antsy, and wiped the drive - but I'll look at this next time ;)
> One thing I noticed. If I installed the nvidia-glx driver and enable it
> using the linux-image-386 setup, it works. As soon as I upgraded the
> Kernel to 686-SMP, it blows up.

Same here. Using 2.6.12-8-386 works great with the nvidia's driver 
installer right from the start. Using 2.6.12-8-k7 needs the driver to be 
recompiled every time even with properly linked headers gcc, etc.