Nvidia driver problem after Gutsy => Hardy upgrade

[PleegWat]

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.
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