Nvidia binary driver not installing in clean Lucid install

[Envy Life]

I have a Geforce 6200, trying to use nvidia-current. However I'm getting the following:

(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Hardware Drivers says the nvidia-current driver is "Active but not in use" and my only option there is to remove. I've removed, re-activated, and rebooted at least 10 times... even re-installed from command prompt.

$ modprobe nvidia
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.

Package manager shows installed nvidia-current, nvidia-current-modaliases, nvidia-settings all installed.

No driver is located in /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules

$ lspci -vnvn

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 A-LE] [10de:0222] (rev a1)
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:226a]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 2: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at f7ce0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nvidiafb, nouveau


Looks like a general issue with the installer. I don't know how to work around it.

[G-mL]

yeah! same exact problem with me. I have an NVS 160 card and have been having the same exact issues from the past few days. Currently, I am running on "low graphics" mode. Every time I try to activate the nvidia drivers, it gives the same error while starting X. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Envy Life]

If I run nvidia-xconfig which creates an xorg.conf, it'll specify the nvidia driver, which it cannot find and ask me whether I want to fix it or go into low resolution mode.

If I purge the xorg.conf file, it'll auto-load the nouveau driver and allow high res.

[dino99]

have you compiz, java or flash installed ? try without the other video drivers installed too ( you only need nvidia*)

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -a

[frantid]

Envy Life, this guy had the same problem and fixed it. See first post.

http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1473121

[Envy Life]

No, that guy had a different set of issues with network and vesa driver. I tried his instructions, which is pretty much what I've done 5 times now, and got the same results. I even manually copied /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so from another box and it won't use it, so it's a deeper problem than a simple missing driver file.