GeForce 9600 drivers for linux?

[sonnet]

Hi guys I needs your help!
I was able to install the drivers 171.06 for the card 9600gt.
The only problem is that if I reboot then I will be back to the generic drive.
It happened before, so now, I reinstalled everything and I have the drivers working again,but how can I make sure that when I reboot the drivers will still be working?

[Neo0351]

Hi guys I needs your help!
I was able to install the drivers 171.06 for the card 9600gt.
The only problem is that if I reboot then I will be back to the generic drive.
It happened before, so now, I reinstalled everything and I have the drivers working again,but how can I make sure that when I reboot the drivers will still be working?

Sounds like the same problem I had when I first install 9600gt. After many hours I figured out I had to disable the nv drivers.

sudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

At the bottom, it should look something like this

DISABLED_MODULES="nv"

[Chaoticwhizz]

Im still having problems. Installing the driver happens without incident but after I reboot it only goes to cmd line. After logging in and running startx I get the included screenshot. Also, when I try to load the VESA driver I get to the Kubuntu login screen but after that it looks like the scanlines are out of sync. Please help. This past couple weeks have reminded me how much I dislike using Windows for everything except gaming

My only other options are waiting until the stable Nvidia driver comes out or possibly trying out Heron when it is released next month.

[Melcar]

There is going to be a review of the card and the latest drivers on Phoronix.

[Neo0351]

Im still having problems. Installing the driver happens without incident but after I reboot it only goes to cmd line. After logging in and running startx I get the included screenshot. Also, when I try to load the VESA driver I get to the Kubuntu login screen but after that it looks like the scanlines are out of sync. Please help. This past couple weeks have reminded me how much I dislike using Windows for everything except gaming

My only other options are waiting until the stable Nvidia driver comes out or possibly trying out Heron when it is released next month.

Exactly what driver are you trying to use?

[Chaoticwhizz]

Exactly what driver are you trying to use?

Im using the 171.06 beta drivers which suport my Geforce 9600GT card. I have at least gotten it to work in VESA again. I had to change the color depth from 24 to 16.

[Neo0351]

Ok, here's how I my 9600GT working with the 171.06 drivers.
First make sure you have all these replacing 2.6.22 with your kernel

uname -r
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-'uname -r'
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-'uname -r'
sudo apt-get install linux-source-2.6.24 build-essential

Then ctrl+alt+F1 and log in as root

killall gdm
chmod a+x /location/to/driver
sh /location/to/driver

After installed

nano /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

Last line should look like

DISABLED_MODULES="nv"

Hope this helps

[Alpinist]

Thought I'd post what I went through with this card.

When I first installed the card I booted to a black screen. Just changing xorg.config to a vesa driver didn't work. But after I ran sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg I was able to get it to work. (As described in thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=690760)

Then I followed the instructions by Atomp in page 2 of this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=9600GT&page=2

Unfortunately when I got to the command sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (actually, I'm on kubuntu so it is sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop) my screen went completely blank. Could not regain control of the screen again after stopping kde.

Also the package name on that thread seems incorrect. I am using NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-171.06-pkg2.run.

Finally I booted to safe mode. Tried to run the package install and it said I needed to be at runlevel 3. Ran initlevel 3 and it booted to kde. Did ctr-alt-F1 and tried to run install and it complained kde was running. Stopped kde again and this time amazingly I sill had a command prompt and not a blank screen. Then was able to perform the install.

A lot of work but is now working very well. Around 15000 fps on glxgears, that is over 10 times better than my onboard 6150.

During this ordeal I did boot into windows (something I haven't done in months) and the driver on CD installed very easily with no problem. Hopefully Hardy will handle the card better than Gutsy.

[jamesnewell]

Thanks Neo0351, I finally got the drivers working, I had missed disabling nv.

I had Compiz working straight after i got the drivers working but it no longer works and am not sure as to what has caused it.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

SKIP_CHECKS=yes compiz

Checking for Xgl: not present. 
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 03:00.0 0300: 10de:0622 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present. 
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present. 
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for nVidia: present. 
Checking for FBConfig: Error: glXCreateContext failed
not present. 
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for Xgl: not present. 
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: glXCreateContext failed
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Thanks,

James

[Neo0351]

Post your xorg.conf please.