Ping: Liam re: Newer kernel backports for 10.04

[Liam Proven]

On 21 February 2012 13:58, Jeff G. <jeff.g.group at att.net> wrote:
> On 02/20/2012 10:08 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>> On 02/20/2012 11:55 PM, Jeff G. wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/15/2012 08:24 AM, Liam Proven wrote in another thread:
>>> > If you're still running "Lucid", 10.04, and are having driver problems
>>> > or something, there are now 3 different newer kernels available.
>>> >
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> > If you look in Synaptic (or the package manager of your choice), you
>>> > should see (for example):
>>> >
>>> > linux-image-generic-lts-backport-natty
>>> >
>>> > and the matching linux-image-generic-pae-backport-natty and
>>> > linux-image-server-backport-natty.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Long story short:
>>>
>>> Running U 10.04 - with the last 2 kernel upgrades, my old nVidia card
>>> started losing contact - losing high graphic effects settings regularly.
>>> Best I could figure, problem was either GTK, compiz, my driver install
>>> in the kernel (s) or 1 of a few bugs.
>>> So for giggles, I went and installed the 3.0 kernel - it would only boot
>>> into low graphic mode. So I went for the latest nv 96 from their site
>>> (manual) which complained a few times but installed,
>>>
>>> lsmod shows nvidia being used by 22
>>>
>>> jeff at jeff-desktop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX
>>> 420] (rev a3)
>>>
>>> I have nvidia.ko in /lib/modules/3.0.0-15-generic/kernel/drivers/video/
>>>
>>> Using xfce, graphics seem fine - have purged compiz for xfwm.
>>>
>>> xorg says
>>> Section "Device"
>>> Identifier "Device0"
>>> Driver "nvidia"
>>> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
>>>
>>>
>>> Jockey can't detect the driver at all - do I need to worry about that?
>>
>>
>> Run nvidia-settings. Set up your video specs, click on whatever options
>> you feel you need to use, then click on the save configuration button to
>> save the entire /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
>
>
> nvidia did that itself upon install - it found and modified the old one.
>
>
>> You should have a lot more in that file than you showed.
>
>
> I do - I was only addressing nvidia recognition by everything but jockey.
>
>
>
>> That completes the install. With that new
>> kernel you probably need to to a serious update to your system as well.
>
>
> Only serious update I can see is something over U 10.04 - all packages are
> up to date per Canonical - Thunderbird and Firefox beyond the versions
> offered in Synaptic.
>
>
>> Then reboot and see what you have. Ric
>
>
> Everything seems fine, just jockey doesn't see the driver.  I'm thinking the
> manual install had a thing to do with that.

Ric's suggestions looked good to me.

What model of nVidia GPU is it? I have seen problems recognising and
configuring older cards that don't work with the latest drivers before
- but not for some years. TBH though I don't have any such old cards
still in use, so I cannot say if the problems have been resolved or
not.

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