HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu Breezy

[tseliot]

i also got problems i hope you can help me

i tried all methods i think, but nothing worked

here is the important part (its the only error message i get )of the long logfile:

(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a:fbmmx.o": No symbols found

please help!

I have some questions for you:
1) What kind problem is? Please describe what and when happens
2) Which is the last method you have tried?
3) Post the model of your graphic card
4) Are you using the standard ubuntu kernel?

[XpAbLoX]

Help pleasE!!

I followed method 2, to install the graphic driver, i uninstalled the nvida-kernel-common (it unistalled linux-386, linux-restricted-modules-386 and linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-386 and it make me install linux-image-2.6.12-10-386)
after the installing process begin the installer told me something about my kernel, if I wanted to download from ftp://nvidia.blabla (i dont remember) because I didn't have something, I said "No" and the installer finished succesfully. I edited the xorg.conf, and started de GDM, the weird thing is when I entered my session in the notification area was a light, I clicked and it told me something like "a new kernel was installed and needs to restart the system to finish the updating", before to restart i did this

$ glxgears but the gears were spinning Veeeeery slowly
$ glxinfo and this one said
direct rendering=yes

Well i restarted the system, but Grub show me 2 new options!!! (now i had 6)

kernel 2-6-12-10-386 (and it respective safe mode) <---------- This is the new one!!
kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (and it respective safe mode)
memtest
WinXP

What happened?? what i did wrong?? how can I fix that?

I have a gforce fx5200 and the driver is the 1.0-8174 (downloaded from nvidia.com)

Please don't ask me why i decided to follow the hardest method, I know that I could do that from the repositories, and all that... I just wanted to install the latest driver... snif snif...

could you help me?

ps.- sorry for my english, but it's not my first language

[tseliot]

Help pleasE!!

I followed method 2, to install the graphic driver, i uninstalled the nvida-kernel-common (it unistalled linux-386, linux-restricted-modules-386 and linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12-9-386 and it make me install linux-image-2.6.12-10-386)
after the installing process begin the installer told me something about my kernel, if I wanted to download from ftp://nvidia.blabla (i dont remember) because I didn't have something, I said "No" and the installer finished succesfully. I edited the xorg.conf, and started de GDM, the weird thing is when I entered my session in the notification area was a light, I clicked and it told me something like "a new kernel was installed and needs to restart the system to finish the updating", before to restart i did this

$ glxgears but the gears were spinning Veeeeery slowly
$ glxinfo and this one said
direct rendering=yes

Well i restarted the system, but Grub show me 2 new options!!! (now i had 6)

kernel 2-6-12-10-386 (and it respective safe mode) <---------- This is the new one!!
kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (and it respective safe mode)
memtest
WinXP

What happened?? what i did wrong?? how can I fix that?

I have a gforce fx5200 and the driver is the 1.0-8174 (downloaded from nvidia.com)

Please don't ask me why i decided to follow the hardest method, I know that I could do that from the repositories, and all that... I just wanted to install the latest driver... snif snif...

could you help me?

ps.- sorry for my english, but it's not my first language

1) Don't worry about glxgears, sometimes it doesn't work properly
2) You must have installed a new kernel and that might have overwritten your old /boot/grub/menu.lst
Therefore you have to:
a) open terminal and type:
cd /boot
ls (and post the output)
b) sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst (and post the content)
c) Tell me which kind of kernels were related to another distro (specify on which harddisk and partition) and which were related to your current ubuntu installation. If you have only 1 harddisk/partition and Ubuntu as the only distro you can skip this step.

In this way I can help you to set the grub menu as it was before.

[daschl]

I have some questions for you:
1) What kind problem is? Please describe what and when happens

when i use sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start the X server crashes and shows me the normal output and this error message (recovered it from the logfile)

the strange thing is, that when i try the config the nvidia splashscreen appears but then quickly disappears and it seems the X tries 3 times to start itself. after the third try the error message comes up, which shows me the logfile.

i also tried to start it with "startx", and the same error message came up (no wonder )

2) Which is the last method you have tried?

i uncommented the two modules, added the nvidia modlue and changed nv to nvidia
i also tried to follow the ubuntu-gnome-tutorial but the same error message appeared.

3) Post the model of your graphic card

its a GeForce 6800 LE

4) Are you using the standard ubuntu kernel?

yes, i also downloaded the header-files, sources and so on...

thanks in advance

[tseliot]

when i use sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start the X server crashes and shows me the normal output and this error message (recovered it from the logfile)

the strange thing is, that when i try the config the nvidia splashscreen appears but then quickly disappears and it seems the X tries 3 times to start itself. after the third try the error message comes up, which shows me the logfile.

i also tried to start it with "startx", and the same error message came up (no wonder )

i uncommented the two modules, added the nvidia modlue and changed nv to nvidia
i also tried to follow the ubuntu-gnome-tutorial but the same error message appeared.

its a GeForce 6800 LE

yes, i also downloaded the header-files, sources and so on...

thanks in advance

1) Please post your xorg.conf
2) Do this thing for me:
set the driver to "nvidia" (in your xorg.conf), save the file and exit.
then
CTRL+ALT+F1
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
startx -- -verbose 5 -logverbose 5

and post the output

[daschl]

1) Please post your xorg.conf
2) Do this thing for me:
set the driver to "nvidia" (in your xorg.conf), save the file and exit.
then
CTRL+ALT+F1
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
startx -- -verbose 5 -logverbose 5

and post the output

well, at first thank you for your help

i uploaded the config files to my webserver because i think they are a bit too long to post them here

Here's the "wrong" xorg.conf for the nvidia settings

and the logfile produced by the startx command

hth, tia
daschl

[tseliot]

well, at first thank you for your help

i uploaded the config files to my webserver because i think they are a bit too long to post them here

Here's the "wrong" xorg.conf for the nvidia settings

and the logfile produced by the startx command

hth, tia
daschl

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Set the driver to "nvidia" and add the lines in red at this section of the file:

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "NvAGP" "0"
Option "RenderAccel" "Off"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP,TV"
Option "NoRenderExtension" "Off"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" “Off”

EndSection

Then log out and CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

[daschl]

here are the logfiles again

Errormessage
X Config

[tseliot]

here are the logfiles again

Errormessage
X Config

Ok remove any previous option I told you to add and replace it with the following:
Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"

Tell me if anything changes

[daschl]

friggin' drivers

is it possible that i "ruined" the nvidia environment by setting up the kernel with the .sh script (by nvidia!) ... or should this be no problem (i did that at first, because i got it up and running with gentoo before i installed ubuntu)

ok, here are the startx log and the more detailed version

Long Logfile
startx-Logfile