Driver probs' for Ubuntu Jaunty Nvidia card.

mzsade · 11-06-2009, 01:29 AM

Try sudo nvidia-xconfig after installing nvidia-glx-180, other dependencies mentioned here, which will be automatically suggested, and reboot.

Please do not take this as a criticism of Ubuntu, but i found driver installation a lot less troublesome in Linux Mint 7, which incidentally is based on the Jaunty kernel. I mention this only because you were considering a fresh install.

blastradius · 11-06-2009, 02:23 AM

Hi Mzsade

Thanks for the response. I have already tried that as I have installed the NVIDIA Xserver settings program and that errors with:-

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

When I try to restart X I get:-

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

I'm sure somewhere in the past I pressed CTRL + ALT + F2 I think it was to drop to a command line and tried from there with the same result.

Any idea how I can go back and see the text that whizzes past when booting in recovery mode as I've just done it again and I saw something FAIL that was to do with Nvidia source.

mzsade · 11-06-2009, 03:23 AM

"dmesg", however, i am not competent enough to interpret the output.

lidex · 11-07-2009, 01:22 AM

Sorry blastradius -- I keep looking at your info on the left. Of course you're on Jaunty. I am as well but didn't have this much of a problem. Do you have jaunty-backports enabled in your software sources?

Also if your video card is geforce series 5 or under take a look here

Hang in there

mzsade · 11-07-2009, 01:40 AM

Sorry, i should have mentioned this but it slipped my mind. When i had Jaunty, and Intrepid before that, i too had a similar problem. I then got rid of all the nvidia modaliases, reinstalled nvidia-glx-180 with dependencies, did a reboot for good measure, then a "sudo nvidia-xconfig" and another reboot and bingo, it worked. I knew immediately because the Desktop effects were set to Normal by default. And it was wrong of me to even hint that you give up and reinstall, or change your OS, i realize that now and am truly sorry.