AlecJ
April 29th, 2009, 08:08 PM
Hi All
Today I did the upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 with my AMD64 and it's Nvidia 6600 LE pci-e card. That was just starting to play nice after I upgraded it to Nvidia 180.51 drivers..
So I lost the card after the upgrade, lost the drivers it was a mess.
After a time I was able to get X back up in "low graphics mode"
Most of the screen seemed to have moved next door!
I again went here http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
got my driver
NVIDIA_Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2.run
changed it to be executable (all in low graphics mode next door!)
had to make a note of this next bit from the helpful people on here
so in a Terminal
Sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stopto stop X and drop to the back command screen (don't Panic) (sorry you may have to press Alt-F1 here to log in again..)
move to where I down loaded my driver, in my case on the Desktop (note the captials)
cd Desktop
ls just to see the files and fill the screen up. I could now see my driver.
sudo ./NVIDIA_Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2.run if you press Tab after the NV bit, it fills the rest in for you.
Followed the instructions on the screen, just saying yes to everything.
Then tried to restart X with
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm starthere we go again with the low graphics mode, so I'm off to look a /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see whats gone on. Have no idea about this new file, just it don't work.
So I backed it up with
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.nvidiathen changed it to this, which works like a dream..
# 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.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# 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 "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
And there we are just 8 hours later, no problem......
Today I did the upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 with my AMD64 and it's Nvidia 6600 LE pci-e card. That was just starting to play nice after I upgraded it to Nvidia 180.51 drivers..
So I lost the card after the upgrade, lost the drivers it was a mess.
After a time I was able to get X back up in "low graphics mode"
Most of the screen seemed to have moved next door!
I again went here http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
got my driver
NVIDIA_Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2.run
changed it to be executable (all in low graphics mode next door!)
had to make a note of this next bit from the helpful people on here
so in a Terminal
Sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stopto stop X and drop to the back command screen (don't Panic) (sorry you may have to press Alt-F1 here to log in again..)
move to where I down loaded my driver, in my case on the Desktop (note the captials)
cd Desktop
ls just to see the files and fill the screen up. I could now see my driver.
sudo ./NVIDIA_Linux-x86_64-180.51-pkg2.run if you press Tab after the NV bit, it fills the rest in for you.
Followed the instructions on the screen, just saying yes to everything.
Then tried to restart X with
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm starthere we go again with the low graphics mode, so I'm off to look a /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see whats gone on. Have no idea about this new file, just it don't work.
So I backed it up with
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.nvidiathen changed it to this, which works like a dream..
# 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.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# 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 "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
And there we are just 8 hours later, no problem......