jakobbg
September 7th, 2008, 09:26 PM
Basically I want nvidia-driver installed on Alpha 5. Have tried hardware-manager, but the only thing that tool managed was to tear my newly installed D820 from 1400x1050 to 800x600.
$ lspci|grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1)
$ uname -a
Linux deathstar 2.6.27-2-generic #1 SMP Thu Aug 28 17:20:02 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
$ dpkg -l | grep -i kernel|cut -f 3 -d ' '
dkms
klogd
libdevmapper1.02.1
libdrm2
linux-generic
linux-headers-2.6.25-1-386
linux-image-2.6.27-2-generic
linux-image-generic
linux-libc-dev
linux-ports-headers-2.6.25-1
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-2-generic
linux-restricted-modules-generic
linux-source-2.6.27
module-init-tools
nvidia-177-kernel-source
udev
Then tried to install the thingy manually, but it does not work still.
jakobbg@deathstar:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-177
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
nvidia-177-kernel-source nvidia-settings
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nvidia-177-kernel-source nvidia-glx-177 nvidia-settings
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/12.0MB of archives.
After this operation, 35.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-177-kernel-source.
(Reading database ... 91943 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-177-kernel-source (from .../nvidia-177-kernel-source_177.70-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx-177.
Unpacking nvidia-glx-177 (from .../nvidia-glx-177_177.70-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-settings.
Unpacking nvidia-settings (from .../nvidia-settings_173.14.09-1ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nvidia-177-kernel-source (177.70-0ubuntu1) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Adding Module to DKMS build system
driver version= 177.70
Doing initial module build
Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.27-2-generic cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/build or /lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/source.
Installing initial module
Error! Could not locate nvidia.ko for module nvidia in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.27-2-generic (i686) first.
Done.
Setting up nvidia-glx-177 (177.70-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up nvidia-settings (173.14.09-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
$ lspci|grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1)
$ uname -a
Linux deathstar 2.6.27-2-generic #1 SMP Thu Aug 28 17:20:02 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
$ dpkg -l | grep -i kernel|cut -f 3 -d ' '
dkms
klogd
libdevmapper1.02.1
libdrm2
linux-generic
linux-headers-2.6.25-1-386
linux-image-2.6.27-2-generic
linux-image-generic
linux-libc-dev
linux-ports-headers-2.6.25-1
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-2-generic
linux-restricted-modules-generic
linux-source-2.6.27
module-init-tools
nvidia-177-kernel-source
udev
Then tried to install the thingy manually, but it does not work still.
jakobbg@deathstar:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-177
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
nvidia-177-kernel-source nvidia-settings
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nvidia-177-kernel-source nvidia-glx-177 nvidia-settings
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/12.0MB of archives.
After this operation, 35.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-177-kernel-source.
(Reading database ... 91943 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-177-kernel-source (from .../nvidia-177-kernel-source_177.70-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx-177.
Unpacking nvidia-glx-177 (from .../nvidia-glx-177_177.70-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-settings.
Unpacking nvidia-settings (from .../nvidia-settings_173.14.09-1ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nvidia-177-kernel-source (177.70-0ubuntu1) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Adding Module to DKMS build system
driver version= 177.70
Doing initial module build
Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.27-2-generic cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/build or /lib/modules/2.6.27-2-generic/source.
Installing initial module
Error! Could not locate nvidia.ko for module nvidia in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.27-2-generic (i686) first.
Done.
Setting up nvidia-glx-177 (177.70-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up nvidia-settings (173.14.09-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place