I'm having a problem with using the nvidia driver for my Geforce GTX 570. I've tried re-installing the drivers, installing using the .sh file from nvidia's website, and using every driver available from the additional drivers program. I have also tried installing using 'sudo apt-get install nvidia-current' and nvidia-current-updates.

I will be very grateful if you could help fix this issue, or give me any advice. Thank you in advance!

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The driver is selected in additional drivers, but if I run the 'sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf' command, it shows it is not in use.

Using that command, I can change to the nvidia driver, but when I boot after that I am given a black screen that simply says 'Starting version 219' and does nothing else. From that screen, if I open a tty then I can try 'sudo service lightdm start' but it fails, and running 'startx' also fails. (See following screenshots labelled as 1 and 2 respectively).

I have been on the ubuntuforums.org with this same problem, and have received many replies but we haven't been able to work out a solution over there, so I decided to post here also to see if any of you may know a working solution.


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Additional information:

I am using a DVI cable to connect to my monitor.

Here is the output of running 'lspci':

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIB (ICH10) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)
03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101/6102 single-port PATA133 interface (rev b2)
05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)




This is what I see when I open up Nvidia X Server Settings:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/mxt1e.png



This is the contents of '/var/log/Xorg.0.log/':
http://paste.ubuntu.com/11381825/



Here are the screenshots mentioned above:

Screenshot 1 -

http://i.stack.imgur.com/wN6jp.jpg


Screenshot 2 -

http://i.stack.imgur.com/ehCJx.jpg




Here is the link to my post in Ubuntuforums.org:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2279938

There you will probably find the answer to any question you might have, but I am more than happy to answer those questions here as well.



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Thank you for your help and your patience with me. I am not a particularly advanced linux user but I should be able to provide you with any necessary details about my system.

From your Xorg log file:
What steps did you follow when you installed the nvidia driver, exactly? Were there any errors reported?

I used the additional drivers program to install the driver with no errors at all. It will show that the nvidia driver(whichever one I select) is selected, and will boot up fine but then the xorg file shows it's not being loaded and the nvidia-settings program won't work properly either.

Never used that, I've only ever used the driver you download directly from nvidia's site. You mentioned you'd done that as well, how did it go?

When I tried to install the driver from nvidia's site directly then reboot, my system would boot into a black screen that said it was starting the display, then the display failed.

From there, I would open tty1 and run 'sudo service lightdm stop', and it ran successfully. Then I would run 'sudo service lightdm start' and it would just say it failed to start lightdm. If I tried to 'startx' it would also fail.

If you think that may be important, I will do it again and post pictures of each step.

Here is a pic of when I try to stop and start lightdm and startx: http://s17.postimg.org/xfn51dgxb/IMG_0675.jpg

if you are sure that you installed the nvidia driver properly, maybe it's blacklisted... not sure about ubuntu, on my system there would be something in /etc/modprobe.d that says "blacklist nvidia". you would want to remove that line.

generally speaking, i wouldn't use the driver directly from the nvidia site, i would always install with my system's packet manager.
try with "apt-get" instead.