Problem with NVidia
Hi,
I'm using Sony Vaio VPCCW26FG (CW Series). It's graphic card is NVidia GeForce GT 330M. I use Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit as my operating system, dual boot with windows 7. Recently I installed new driver from NVidia 256.53, but looks like this driver is not so stable on my notebook. Sometimes the NVidia driver is successfully loaded, but sometimes its failed to load. (note: in windows 7 the graphic card has no problem) This is the last few lines of log message from Xorg.0.log: Quote:
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Regards, DakoChan |
Is there anything in /var/log/kern.log that would shed some light on what's going on? I've seen others reporting problems with this driver as well so I suspect it's just an upstream issue with nvidia or some interaction with the driver and the kernel you are using. You probably want to downgrade to 256.44; that seems to fix things for most people encountering problems with the new driver.
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I had to blacklist the nouveau driver, then install the NVIDIA driver.
To blacklist it add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf Code:
blacklist nouveau |
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$ cat kern.log | grep nvidia Before I installed version 256.53, I used 256.44, but it has the same problem. That was why I installed version 256.53 by hoping the problem fixed. Too bad, it's not. Regards, DakoChan |
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menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-24-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { Regards, DakoChan |
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To be certain, I'd suggest you blacklist it, then reboot, and then reinstall the nvidia driver. Have you checked on the nvidia site to make sure you are using the correct driver version for your nidia hardware? |
Yes, the driver version is correct.
Maybe I follow your suggestion to blacklist nouveau driver in blacklist.conf. Thanks. |
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