nvidia fx5500

[Paul S]

steve said the following on 01/13/2008 12:58 AM:
> i have deleted all downloaded drivers, and removed the driver installed
> with the gutsy "restricted driver"  none of these have worked thus far.

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> driver. all it does is spew errors at the end of the xorg error log
> saying it cannot be enabled. I havent had this much trouble getting x to


It sound like you have a part of one version and are trying to load a 
different version.  Go into /var/log and in a terminal try searching for 
the "nv" messages.  Look for warnings about mismatch.

grep -i nv dmesg*
grep -i nv messages*
grep -i nv syslog*
grep -i nv kern.log*

If it's still a mismatch error message, you have to make sure the old is 
purged completely.

aptitude purge linux-restricted-modules-2.blah.blah.blah

Probably the best help in installing nvidia's drivers is from their site:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

hth