[ubuntu-za] Nvidia Restrcited Driver Issue... Crash (NVIDIA 6500)

[Hilton Gibson]

Sorry its the other way round.

On 6 May 2010 00:22, Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 May 2010 20:52, christo <coetzewc at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
>>  Hi guys some assistance or ideas?
>>
>> Installed a fresh copy of 10.04 32bit
>>
>> My Desktop with NVIDIA 6500 pci-e card crashes or X crashes after I
>> installed the Nvidia Restrcited Driver from ubuntu repository. The mouse
>> still moves around though but the machine is unresponsive to any clicking,
>> the PC locks up with black screen only. Seems to also affect the
>> Screen-saver. The NVIDIA drivers shows screensaver nicely but crashes my
>> system. When I use the Plymouth driver my relolution sucks especially in
>> browsing, text seems "jittery" for a lack of a better word.
>>
>> I* *Can't find anything related to this on the web so went on a mission
>> and reported it to another thread on the ubuntu forum with similar issues.
>>
>> Oh and can't drop into terminal ALT F1 with NVIDIA drivers does not ask
>> for password and prompts login again but with Plymouth drivers that works
>> fine.
>> This my initial issues and have had the following responce and did as
>> explained. below:
>>
>> *From "dino99"*
>> if you can open "synaptic" (system admin synaptic), tell me if, in the
>> repo tab, you have some third party repo or ppa activated, in case uncheck
>> them.(of course, all the repo need to be with the same distro and release)
>> You should only have: nvidia-current, nvidia-current-modaliases,
>> nvidia-common and nvidia-settings installed.
>>
>> now into console:
>>
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install -f
>> sudo dpkg --configure -a
>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure plymouth
>> sudo update-initramfs -u
>> sudo grub-mkconfig && update-grub
>> so with synaptic: first remove/purge the nvidia packages installed (right
>> click) then install the ones i've given in the previous post
>>
>> *From me:*
>> My settings in Synaptic was / is:
>> enabled Canonical-supported OSS (main)
>> enabled Community-maintained OS (universe)
>> enabled Proprietary drivers for devices (restricted)
>> enamled SW restricted blah blah (multiverse)
>>
>> under Other Software
>> enabled only Http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
>>
>> Updates
>> enabled (lucid-security)
>> enabled (lucid-updates)
>>
>> Nothing else.
>>
>> On my quest
>> removed all nvidia stuff with synaptic and installed
>> nvidia-current
>> nvidia-settings
>> have to install nvidia-173-modaliases
>> have to install nvidia-96-modaliases
>> nvidia-common then
>>
>> Did the console commands, and rebuilt.
>> Then used System Administration hardware to enable NVIDIA driver again.
>> That is the correct wat to enable it, yes??
>>
>> So I Started a FTP download from local repositry (ftp://ftp.saix.net10.04 server 32) and X crashed after some screensaver activity, I'm sure. I
>> was able to get into console ALT F1 this time but it seems if my path was
>> "environmental variable's" was lost, had to cd into filesystem to see what I
>> could run. I could not execute "top" to check what's holding up the
>> processor but it seems as if the cpu was working overtime 100% utilisation
>> because I could see after hard reset over heating / high heat from the bios
>> sensor. This usually, tells me cpu worked to hard a minute before my hard
>> reset. This is more or less what my inital symptoms were and still is.
>>
>> As I said with the Kernel (plymouth) driver, all seems stable but
>> resolution is crap when browsing and screensaver is very slow.
>>
>> Can GLX have something to do with this I red somewhere to revert to glx
>> 1.2, current version is 1.4??? does this make sense or ring any bells? I
>> don't know how to down grade this but could find out I'm sure. I'm trying my
>> best to understand all this and I'm not a programmer so stabbing in the dark
>> here?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> Christo
>>
> This is what I get with an intel video card after running glxinfo.
> >>>>
> hilton at oogway:~$ glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.2
> server glx extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
> GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
>     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
>     GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
>     GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
>     GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
> client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
> client glx version string: 1.4
> client glx extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
>     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
>     GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
>     GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control,
>     GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
>     GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
>     GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
> GLX version: 1.2
> GLX extensions:
> >>>>
> So it seems that the glx client is version 1.2 but the server is 1.4.
> Do you get the same ?
>
> Cheers
>
> hg
>
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