ToshiBoy
December 31st, 2010, 02:53 AM
Ok, I've been scouring forums for weeks, trying different solutions and drivers and what not, and am absolutely not getting anywhere. I'm at the point where after a good ten years of Linux I'm ready to return to Windows, because I am disappointed in Ubuntu 10 and this problem is really not helping. So, here is my last effort I am going to make on this:
I had a Ubuntu 9.10 installation that worked well, but I updated it to 10.10 and now the nvdia driver refuses to work, which means, no Open-GL, no compiz, etc. My graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce MX4000 (which should work with driver version 96)
If I go to the hardware (additional) drivers, I have two drivers there:
"NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current)" and
"nvidia_96"
Both are not activated.
If I activate the first one, Startx will crash and tell me it can't find the module "nvidia". If I activate the second, it says, it's activated but not running. There are hundreds of threads on here about this problem, and nothing has helped.
I have tried to completely remove any trace of nvidia on my system and reinstalling it. I've tried the nvidia driver from the nvidia site (which complains that I don't have the kernel sources installed, even when I enter the path to them), I have tried a different version of the driver, and an old backup file from my 9.10 system and nothing seems to work.
My current xorg.conf looks like this:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nv"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
this at least gets me into X, but when I try to run nvidia-xconfig it tells me that I am not running the nvidia driver.
This is my xorg.conf, when I activate one of the drivers:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Tue Jul 13 13:31:50 PDT 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
but even that doesn't work. I am pretty tech savvy, but this is getting to me. Is there an easy step by step approach that would get me some answers?
I had a Ubuntu 9.10 installation that worked well, but I updated it to 10.10 and now the nvdia driver refuses to work, which means, no Open-GL, no compiz, etc. My graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce MX4000 (which should work with driver version 96)
If I go to the hardware (additional) drivers, I have two drivers there:
"NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current)" and
"nvidia_96"
Both are not activated.
If I activate the first one, Startx will crash and tell me it can't find the module "nvidia". If I activate the second, it says, it's activated but not running. There are hundreds of threads on here about this problem, and nothing has helped.
I have tried to completely remove any trace of nvidia on my system and reinstalling it. I've tried the nvidia driver from the nvidia site (which complains that I don't have the kernel sources installed, even when I enter the path to them), I have tried a different version of the driver, and an old backup file from my 9.10 system and nothing seems to work.
My current xorg.conf looks like this:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nv"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
this at least gets me into X, but when I try to run nvidia-xconfig it tells me that I am not running the nvidia driver.
This is my xorg.conf, when I activate one of the drivers:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Tue Jul 13 13:31:50 PDT 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
but even that doesn't work. I am pretty tech savvy, but this is getting to me. Is there an easy step by step approach that would get me some answers?