

> Siposs Attila <sipiatti@freeweb.hu> wrote:
> 
> Happy New Year!
> I1ve installed the nvidia-glx package
> because I want to use doom legacy with
> hw accelerating, but I was unable to
> set it up.
> I edited the xf86config, I changed "nv"
> to "nvidia", I commented glcore and dri
> but the X crashes.
> It says:
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
> (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> 

Hi,

Did you install "linux-restricted-modules"? It contains the NVIDIA kernel module
mentioned in that log.

more info here: https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/BinaryDriverHowto



