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danielsender
November 10th, 2010, 10:37 PM
Hi,

I have a Dell precision M50 which has the NVIDIA Quadro4 500 GoGL. When I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 the proprietary NVIDIA driver stopped working. At that time I found a simple solution which was to replace in the xorg.conf file the line in the Section "Device":

Driver "nvidia"

by:

Driver "nv"

giving up the accelerated features.

The other day I decided to look around for a solution and found:

http://www.rmic.be/ubuntu-maverick-nvidia-x-problem

It updated a bunch of packages but it didn't work with the NVIDIA drivers. So when I replaced again the Driver line "nvidia" with "nv", it didn't work either as before. The Xorg.1.log file is attached below in a zip file. The significant lines are:


[ 25.341] (EE) NV: The PCI device 0x10de017c (Quadro4 500 GoGL) at 01@00:00:0 has a kernel module claiming it.
[ 25.341] (EE) NV: This driver cannot operate until it has been unloaded.
[ 25.341] (EE) No devices detected.
[ 25.341]
Fatal server error:
[ 25.341] no screens found
[ 25.341]
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 25.341] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" for additional information.
[ 25.342]On the other hand when I keep the Driver line to be "nvidia" I get the Xorg.1.log.old which is also in the zip attachment below shows:


[ 25.242] (II) Loading extension DRI2
[ 25.242] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 25.242] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 25.243] dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: miEmptyData
[ 25.249] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 25.249] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 25.250] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
[ 25.250] (EE) No drivers available.
[ 25.250]
Fatal server error:
[ 25.250] no screens found
[ 25.250]
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 25.250] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" for additional information.
[ 25.250]I don't longer care about the nvidia drivers, at least I want to get my display running. Thanks in advance.

Daniel

crimsonsky69
November 10th, 2010, 11:21 PM
I have similar problem. I have a on-board GPU and dedicated nvidia on my laptop. everything works fine with nvidia propriety driver disabled. But when it's enabled, it goes starit to the terminal. trying to start the x server by "startx" will say that there is no device detected.

madtom1999
November 14th, 2010, 09:50 AM
I've just upgraded from 10.4 to 10.10
I've a FeForce2 MX200 that worked v well under 10.4
now I've just got console login
on startx I get to
Loading /usr/lib.xorg/extra-modules/nvidia-drv.so
dlopen: Loading /usr/lib.xorg/extra-modules/nvidia-drv.so:undefined symbol: miEmptyData

llelectronics
November 14th, 2010, 12:14 PM
@danielsender & crimsonsky69

nv is outdated. Try to use nouveau instead.
If you want the nvidia drivers to work boot with the bootoption nomodeset
You can do so by entering the bootmenu and pressenng e at the appropiate bootentry then edit and add the bootoption in the linux line. To boot then use CTRL+X.

@madtom1999

I don't think your old card is supported by Nvidia anymore. Try using the nouveau driver instead.

danielsender
November 15th, 2010, 07:45 PM
I just found that there is a new driver from nvidia 96.43.19 that was released on 11/02/10 and it works well with my machine. The only problem is that it does not appear in the "Additional Drivers" field of "Administration" which precludes setting the "Appearance Preferences"->"Visual Effects" to anything but "None".

slaked
November 15th, 2010, 08:05 PM
me too
i was having problems with the nvidia driver, it started when i updated the driver and it would not work anymore.

ryankask
January 1st, 2011, 04:29 PM
Any updates on this issue?

I have:



$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2)


Same issue....no glx. See my post on the issue (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10304014) for more details.

Ryan

Thanks,
Ryan