DaveQB

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Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right forum.

I have been happily using the Distro supplied Nvidia drivers and then had to switch to the latest off their site because I upgraded my card to the 8800GT.

So tried removing the distro's through package managed, then installed Nvidia's supplied, then went back to my old card for a bit, so put the package back in and tried to manually remove the Nvidia .run installed files and now back to the Nividia one.

Now when I boot, X fails to log, logs say Nvidia kernel module was the problem. So I manually rmmod Nividia ; modprobe nvidia and restart kdm and its all working.

So do I have 2 nvidia modules, the first one loading being the distro supplied one, hence X wont start cause Card is not supported by it and then when I manually load it, it loads the latest Nvidia supplied one ?

Thanks for reading.

Brian1

I would not see why the Nvidia site modules would not work with the older card unless you had higher resolutions or something. But the module is loaded in /etc/modprobe.conf usually. Should not have to change uch between the two but depends what is enabled between the two. Once you get the xorg.conf in /etc/X11 setup make a backup for each card for easy fix in future.

Brian

DaveQB

The module installed off of the Nvidia website does work, the Kubuntu supplied driver does not work with this newer card.

Andi t seems it loads the Kubuntu one upon boot and then any subsequent modprobes for nvidia loads the Nvidia one.

How can I remove this archaic step in starting X by removing the Kubuntu supplied module ?

DaveQB

bump

is this the right forum ?

DaveQB

The problem seems the Ubuntu supplied kernel module was called nvidia_new. I dont know how I missed that and how rmmod nvidia removed it (linked some how ?)

But the solution was to:

In /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
change
DISABLED_MODULES=""
to
DISABLED_MODULES="nv nvidia_new"

thanks for reading everyone.