nvidia driver

eantoranz · 10-22-2005, 12:11 PM

What do I have to do to have the nvidia driver working on breezy?

I installed nvidia-glx, but it doesn'¡t work. I tried starting my 686 kernel and the 386 too, but it didn't work. I even tried installing the nvidia driver downloading it from the nvidia site and installing, but it semms the xorg that comes with breezy is static and doesn't support module loading.

So.... what do I have to try?

Right now I'm using teh nv driver, but when I change the driver to nvidia, it always sais there's no screen.

jolly1701 · 10-22-2005, 06:35 PM

after the install of the nvidia drivers did u open a terminal and write

sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

then restart X or the system ...

eantoranz · 10-22-2005, 10:57 PM

It didn't work. No screens detected.

jolly1701 · 10-23-2005, 02:27 AM

try in a terminal

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

then follow the on screen instructions ...

eantoranz · 10-23-2005, 11:20 AM

Well.. that's been the closest I've been to make it. It even showed up the nvidia screen.

But it still failed.

It says:

Code:

Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel version is 1.0.7667, but this X module version is 1.0.7676. Please be sure that your kernel module and all NVIDIA driver files have the same driver version.

As a hint I can tell you that I tried building the NVIDIA driver downloading it from nvidia's site.... but maybe there are nvidia-glx package's stuff floating around (I removed nvidia-glx..... but maybe there are more). What do you think?

thomyorke38 · 10-23-2005, 02:11 PM

type "sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf"
go down to the video driver section and change 'Driver "nv"' to "Driver "nvidia"' and make sure that if there is a chipset section in there just to comment it out, that should get you up and rolling

eantoranz · 10-23-2005, 02:46 PM

I did.... that's why you (I mean I) had that message in the X ouput.

I'm using nv right now.. that's why I'm in graphical mode.

thomyorke38 · 10-24-2005, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by eantoranz
I did.... that's why you (I mean I) had that message in the X ouput.

I'm using nv right now.. that's why I'm in graphical mode.

i know i had the exact same problem, but make sure that you comment out the chipset line cause its not used by the nvidia-glx driver. If you've done that or are trying to use the generic driver from the nvidia site then i dont know, the only other thing i could suggest is to make sure you uninstall the generic nvidia's and reinstall the glx package in apt-get, and use that .conf edit i wrote instead of the configurator which appears to be essentially useless

come to think of it im pretty sure you fuxored the glx driver by installing and not properly removing the generic drivers, so try what i said

eantoranz · 10-24-2005, 09:44 PM

Well.. it's taken me a while to solve it.

I had installed the "volatile" modules... and there's a nvidia driver there... that's the 7667. I removed those modules, installed the nvidia driver (from nvidia's site) and then it worked. Finally!

Daylighthater · 06-07-2006, 11:00 AM

Could you descripe those steps please!
If I install the new nvidia driver (version 1.0-8762) and immediatly restart x there is no problem.
However when I reboot my computer, I get this error message:

Code:

The NVIDIA module has the version 1.0-7174, but this X module has the version 1.0-8762. Please make sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version.

I have no clue of solving this problem.

regards,
Daylighthater

eantoranz · 06-07-2006, 11:04 AM

Oh, man... that was some time ago... and I don't even have that same computer anymore... so I just can't help... sorry. By te way: I finally decied to install the nvidia driver that ubuntu provided last time so I didn't have to work around it. Mush less hazzle (but as I just said, I don't have that same computer anymore).