Hello,

I have a Latitude (Dell) d830 and I am running Hardy, and everytime I enable the Nvidia driver (Quadra NVS 140) the machine reboots and I have a grey screen with a black bar down the middle. Having looked at my Xorg.conf file (not knowing much about it) it looks like it's missing some information. I wondered if someone could look and see any problems. It is below..

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection



Many thanks in advance. Also, obviously because of this, I cannot get Desktop Effects to work without the NVidia driver.

AceMan

AceMan

Have you tried...
Running this has fixed a lot of xconfig problems I've encountered when dealing with Nvidia drivers.

If I can't load the nvidia driver, then this doesn't do me much good, right? I load the driver, reboot and I have a gray screen with a black bar down the middle. I have also tried EnvyNG with the same result.


AceMan

Hi, I'm assuming you are using the nv driver. Assuming, because it DOESN'T say in xorg.conf like it should. I have the same problem, I can't load the nvidia driver, so I checked out xorg.conf to change it, like I have for every other version of Kubuntu I've used. That entire section just isn't there, but the nv driver seems to working just fine, and I can boot and use the OS, so something is getting the job done anyway. So I figured that they changed the video config file to something else with the new version of Ubuntu. Except I can't find any mention of it on google, so far.

Anyone know what is up ? Here is my xorg.conf, if anyone thinks it'll help.....

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

I appologize, I'm used to booting into a console and not an X server. In /etc/inittab you should see a line similiar to...This can be changed to runlevel 3 or whatever your distro needs to boot into a non-graphical mode. From that point you can make changes to your xorg.conf file and use "startx" to start the X server. Also you can test your Nvidia driver without having to reboot every time and allows you to run the "nvidia-xconfig" without being in graphical mode. There may be something new with Ubuntu that I'm not familiar with, but there should be a section in xorg.conf defining the driver to be used. If you're using the official Nvidia driver, you'll need to change "nv" to "nvidia". This is done when the "nvidia-xconfig" command is run.

This did the trick for me....

http://www.funnestra.org/ubuntu/hardy/#nvidia-driver

Let us know how it went......

David