ben1828
May 23rd, 2010, 08:43 PM
Hello,
First of all, I am very new to Ubuntu, having grown rather tired of Windows 'characteristics'
Secondly, I have looked for the answer to my query on both this and other forums quite thoroughly, but keep running up against hurdles. If the answer to my query is obvious, please excuse me - I have tried!
Acer Revo. Have installed the latest version of Ubuntu which is coming up as 10.04 LTS. 64bit. It all installed first time, error free and is quite lovely. However, it's a bit slower than it should be. Looking around I note that the default installation does not include the nVidia drivers and installing these will bring it up to full speed.
Have downloaded the drivers from nVidia's site (it auto-detected the o/s and h/w so I accepted those) and gave me a 40mb text file. I then found out that I should save this, which I did as a .run. Getting this to extract was another difficulty, but another suggestion in a terminal window would "stop something" and "exit X" giving me the opportunity to login again, and execute the .run file which appeared to be doing it's stuff.
However, it failed and looking at the log I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do next. I can't find any significant pointers on nVidia's site and the lack of others having problems makes me suspect it's me doing something silly.
I'm quite keen to continue work through the installation to make it work correctly and would be grateful for any pointers.
Many thanks
Ben
The last snippit of the log file is below
-> Kernel messages:
[ 20.804348] domain 1: span 0,2 level MC
[ 20.804355] groups: 0,2 (cpu_power = 1178)
[ 20.804368] domain 2: span 0-3 level CPU
[ 20.804375] groups: 0,2 (cpu_power = 1178) 1,3 (cpu_power = 1178)
[ 20.804395] CPU3 attaching sched-domain:
[ 20.804402] domain 0: span 1,3 level SIBLING
[ 20.804410] groups: 3 (cpu_power = 589) 1 (cpu_power = 589)
[ 20.804426] domain 1: span 1,3 level MC
[ 20.804434] groups: 1,3 (cpu_power = 1178)
[ 20.804446] domain 2: span 0-3 level CPU
[ 20.804453] groups: 1,3 (cpu_power = 1178) 0,2 (cpu_power = 1178)
[ 27.930494] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 258.824554] [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: nouveau_channel_free: freeing
fifo 2
[ 387.940820] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 387.940830] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 389.713877] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPMU] enabled at IRQ 20
[ 389.713891] nvidia 0000:00:03.5: PCI INT B -> Link[LPMU] -> GSI 20
(level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 389.714322] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1
device(s).
[ 389.714331] NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as rivafb, nvidiafb
or
[ 389.714334] NVRM: rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of the NVIDIA
[ 389.714337] NVRM: device(s).
[ 389.714344] NVRM: Try unloading the rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv kernel
module
[ 389.714347] NVRM: (and/or reconfigure your kernel without rivafb/nvidiafb
[ 389.714350] NVRM: support), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
again.
[ 389.714356] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter probed!
First of all, I am very new to Ubuntu, having grown rather tired of Windows 'characteristics'
Secondly, I have looked for the answer to my query on both this and other forums quite thoroughly, but keep running up against hurdles. If the answer to my query is obvious, please excuse me - I have tried!
Acer Revo. Have installed the latest version of Ubuntu which is coming up as 10.04 LTS. 64bit. It all installed first time, error free and is quite lovely. However, it's a bit slower than it should be. Looking around I note that the default installation does not include the nVidia drivers and installing these will bring it up to full speed.
Have downloaded the drivers from nVidia's site (it auto-detected the o/s and h/w so I accepted those) and gave me a 40mb text file. I then found out that I should save this, which I did as a .run. Getting this to extract was another difficulty, but another suggestion in a terminal window would "stop something" and "exit X" giving me the opportunity to login again, and execute the .run file which appeared to be doing it's stuff.
However, it failed and looking at the log I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do next. I can't find any significant pointers on nVidia's site and the lack of others having problems makes me suspect it's me doing something silly.
I'm quite keen to continue work through the installation to make it work correctly and would be grateful for any pointers.
Many thanks
Ben
The last snippit of the log file is below
-> Kernel messages:
[ 20.804348] domain 1: span 0,2 level MC
[ 20.804355] groups: 0,2 (cpu_power = 1178)
[ 20.804368] domain 2: span 0-3 level CPU
[ 20.804375] groups: 0,2 (cpu_power = 1178) 1,3 (cpu_power = 1178)
[ 20.804395] CPU3 attaching sched-domain:
[ 20.804402] domain 0: span 1,3 level SIBLING
[ 20.804410] groups: 3 (cpu_power = 589) 1 (cpu_power = 589)
[ 20.804426] domain 1: span 1,3 level MC
[ 20.804434] groups: 1,3 (cpu_power = 1178)
[ 20.804446] domain 2: span 0-3 level CPU
[ 20.804453] groups: 1,3 (cpu_power = 1178) 0,2 (cpu_power = 1178)
[ 27.930494] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 258.824554] [drm] nouveau 0000:03:00.0: nouveau_channel_free: freeing
fifo 2
[ 387.940820] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 387.940830] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 389.713877] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPMU] enabled at IRQ 20
[ 389.713891] nvidia 0000:00:03.5: PCI INT B -> Link[LPMU] -> GSI 20
(level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 389.714322] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1
device(s).
[ 389.714331] NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as rivafb, nvidiafb
or
[ 389.714334] NVRM: rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of the NVIDIA
[ 389.714337] NVRM: device(s).
[ 389.714344] NVRM: Try unloading the rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv kernel
module
[ 389.714347] NVRM: (and/or reconfigure your kernel without rivafb/nvidiafb
[ 389.714350] NVRM: support), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
again.
[ 389.714356] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter probed!