Nvidia driver problem after Gutsy => Hardy upgrade

[PleegWat]

PleegWat wrote:
> 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
>   
OK, I fixed it. In 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+bug/173418 
one user also points out they commented out some lines in modules.alias 
for some other reason. After doing some research into this file, it 
turned out the nvidia driver was blacklisted, because it wasn't enabled 
in the restricted drivers configuration.
Commenting out the relevant line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-restricted 
fixed the issue.

My thanks to everyone who helped me fix the issue.


PleegWat