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    NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    I am running Linux Mint 13, 64-bit Cinnamon version.

    So I've been trying to get nvidia driver 295.59 running on my machine.

    In terminal, I now get:

    Currently installed version: 295.59; latest available version: 310.32;
    latest driver file:
    ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li..._64-310.32.run.
    295.59 supports my card, okay, so I first had a lot of problems with X, it wouldn't boot in, finally would boot but 640 res, reinstalled X and then reinstalled the driver and now I'm here.

    I'm stuck in GNOME classic desktop environment and I normally have cinnamon, it won't boot into cinnamon and when I open X-server I get the following:

    You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

    Sudo nvidia-xconfig replies with this:

    Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config".
    Backed up file '/etc/X11/XF86Config' as '/etc/X11/XF86Config.backup'
    New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/XF86Config'
    XF86Config reads:

    # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
    # nvidia-xconfig: version 295.59 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-03.nvidia.com) Wed Jun 6 22:23:24 PDT 2012


    Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Layout0"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    EndSection

    Section "Files"
    EndSection

    Section "Module"
    Load "dbe"
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "glx"
    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 "keyboard"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "Unknown"
    HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
    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
    EndSubSection
    EndSection
    I want to get back to Cinnamon and run TF2, any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Last edited by megatoaster; February 21st, 2013 at 01:55 AM.

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    Re: NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    You probably have Optimus/hybrid graphics. Check output of lspci:
    Code:
    lspci | grep -i vga
    If you see both an Intel and Nvidia GPU, then you need to completely purge any nvidia driver you installed, delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot. If graphics are now working normally, then you can proceed to install Bumblebee: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee

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    Re: NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    lspci | grep -i vga output:


    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fd1 (rev a1)





    Purged nvidia-304 and nvidia-settings-304, am I good?
    Last edited by megatoaster; February 21st, 2013 at 02:28 AM.

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    Re: NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    Also, I don't have an exact xorg.conf

    only the following:

    xorg.conf.backup
    xorg.conf.failsafe
    xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original
    xorg.conf.old

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    Re: NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    When I type:
    glxinfo | grep OpenGL

    I get:
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

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    Re: NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    Code:
    sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
    sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx xserver-xorg-core
    Try those two commands and log out/in.

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    Re: NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    So I did that and now Linux Mint won't even boot, just a black screen frozen with the top left corner having a white (non blinking) cursor.

    I can boot into safe mode but when I do startx, it goes to that.

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    Re: NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    That's... weird. I'm thinking the nvidia driver install might have blacklisted something important.

    Maybe you need to restore this file from backup copy too:
    Code:
    Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config".
    Backed up file '/etc/X11/XF86Config' as '/etc/X11/XF86Config.backup'
    New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/XF86Config'

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    Re: NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    I'm not sure how to do that currently, as I cannot really get in.

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    Re: NVIDIA drivers help. LM13-64bit-NVIDIA Geforce GT650M

    I have an optimus setup with a 650m and typically just do:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable

    sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

    This is directly after a fresh install and then I usually check to make sure it is running properly with: optirun glxspheres

    64 bit.

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