Howdy. First off, I'm a complete linux noob, so apologies for asking what would appear to be dumb, basic questions. I've reviewed this and similar posts, and have tried some of the various offered solutions, but nothing seems to work yet. I apologize if the answer I need has already been posted, but so far, I'm still out in the NVIDIA cold, so to speak.
Here's what I'm running: thanks to Tseliot's very helpful HOWTO, I compiled a brand spanking new emt64 smp kernel from 2.6.13 (it was the new release that inspired me to get around to checking out linux). I've got a pentium 830d on a p5wd2 (which is a problematic board, so far, if anyone's thinking of getting one), with a crappy-ass Asus en6200 TC. I compiled my kernel from the 'vanilla' 2.6.13.
So far, trying to install NVIDIA's latest two drivers (7667 and 7676, doesn't matter, same effect), in a word, fails. I'm postulating that this might be because of smp, or the 2.6.13 (instead of .11 or .12), but my rather uneducated guesswork is worth the paper this is printed on. (nobody print this reply out)
I can successfully compile the module, using either NVIDIA's run package, or doing it manually in terminal, but the results are the same: X-server fails to load the graphical environment.
Before anyone asks, I've done all the cancelling out of "Load DRI" and added "nvidia" and the other steps in NVIDIA's readme. That is apparently successful in telling the system to load a driver which, alas, isn't. I'm not expecting wonderful things from my crapply little video card (that's what November is for), but I'd like to load the NVIDIA driver just to prevent the inevitable screen corruption yielded by the default nv driver. Having said that, who wouldn't want Opengl working? I've managed to get my girlfriend hooked on Baldur's Gate (I think that deserves a standing ovation, actually), so when BG2 time comes around, I'd like to have her play that in Ubuntu, rather than Winblows.
Any and all help appreciated. You can even be nasty and derogatory while helping me, as long as you're funny, too.
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