Nvidia driver problem after Gutsy => Hardy upgrade

[Ilya Vishnyakov]

Not that easy. After Ugrade to 8.04, my Nvidia 7600 gt doesn't show up
in the "Hardware drivers". The bug that is... As I noticed these steps
fixed my issue:

Get the driver from nvidia.com site, then:

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."

 

 

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of claudiu vlad
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:07 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: Nvidia driver problem after Gutsy => Hardy upgrade

 


In the Administration menu, there is "Hardware drivers" where u can
enable the nvidia driver.

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 19:17 +0200, 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
 
 
--- Start xorg.conf ---
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder3)  Wed Jun 13 
18:39:30 PDT 2007
 
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool,
using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades
*only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically
updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
 
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Default Layout"
  screen "Default Screen" 0 0
    Inputdevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    Inputdevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
 
Section "Files"
   
    # path to defoma fonts
    Fontpath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    Fontpath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
    Fontpath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
    Fontpath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
    Fontpath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
    Fontpath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
    Fontpath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
    Fontpath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection
 
Section "Module"
    Load        "bitmap"
    Load        "ddc"
    Load        "extmod"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load        "glx"
    Load        "int10"
    Load        "vbe"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver        "kbd"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel"    "pc104"
    Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "CorePointer"
    Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "Protocol"    "ImPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping"    "4 5"
EndSection
 
Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
    Horizsync    28.0    -    64.0
    Vertrefresh    43.0    -    60.0
    Option        "DPMS"
EndSection
 
Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Generic Video Card"
    Driver        "nv"
    Screen    0
    Busid        "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection
 
Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Device        "Generic Video Card"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    Defaultdepth    24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth    1
        Modes        "1280x1024"    "1280x960"    "1024x768"    
"800x600"    "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth    4
        Modes        "1280x1024"    "1280x960"    "1024x768"    
"800x600"    "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth    8
        Modes        "1280x1024"    "1280x960"    "1024x768"    
"800x600"    "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth    15
        Modes        "1280x1024"    "1280x960"    "1024x768"    
"800x600"    "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth    16
        Modes        "1280x1024"    "1280x960"    "1024x768"    
"800x600"    "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth    24
        Modes        "1280x1024"    "1280x960"    "1024x768"    
"800x600"    "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection
--- end xorg.conf ---
 
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