Problem with Nvidia Drivers after upgrade to Hardy 8.04

[ifedeli]

You are not using UUID's. I'm not familiar with your arrangement.

I had to do things slightly differently because I'm using 'fakeraid'. What does grub have to do with the loading of video drivers? It is a question of kernel modules?

[Pumalite]

Grub has to know exactly where everything is and also know what to load and what to mount.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm

[ifedeli]

Grub has to know exactly where everything is and also know what to load and what to mount.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm

Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I still don't see why grub is relevant here. I am able to boot into Hardy, using the correct kernel (2.6.24-16-generic). The problem is that when X.org tries to start, it is unable to use the Nvidia driver for some reason I don't understand. Maybe you're suggesting that it can't find the Nvidia driver kernel module?

[Pumalite]

We got off track. Maybe this will help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=768749

[ifedeli]

We got off track. Maybe this will help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=768749

I don't mean to be a pain, but I've already tried that. Any other ideas?

[Pumalite]

Yes. Do a clean install. They have never failed me. In fact I have 4 Hardies in clean install with Nvidia cards and none have a problem.

[brigadoon]

I saw your thread. I had some similar issues with the upgrade as well. I posted my solutions at...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...15#post4828515

It may give you some ideas. Hope it helps. Good luck.

[sowelie]

I don't know exactly what's been suggested, but I had a similar problem. The old kernel module stuck around for some reason (I think I had the non free drivers installed manually previously). Try removing nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-glx-new and re-installing. If that doesn't work, download the latest driver from NVIDIA and install that manually.

[jblackhall]

Are you 100% sure that you're booted into the correct kernel? I had the exact same problem after upgrading and I thought I was booting into the correct kernel. If you're not sure how to do check, simply run "uname -a" (without quotes) in Terminal. The Hardy kernel is 2.6.24-16 (as of now). If you're showing something else, like 2.6.22-14, then you're not booted into the correct one. See here for more: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...7&postcount=14 . Once in the correct kernel the restricted drivers should work like a charm (did for me anyways).

If you are in the correct kernel, then I apologize. It could be the fact that it's a newer card. (I only have a 6600GT).

[ifedeli]

Thanks for all the responses:

Are you 100% sure that you're booted into the correct kernel?

I am booted into 2.6.24-16-generic, which is correct I believe.

I don't know exactly what's been suggested, but I had a similar problem. The old kernel module stuck around for some reason (I think I had the non free drivers installed manually previously). Try removing nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-glx-new and re-installing. If that doesn't work, download the latest driver from NVIDIA and install that manually.

I also suspected it has something to do with kernel modules. I tried removing nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-glx-new and then reinstalling. There was no effect. I then tried the 173.08 beta driver from the NVIDIA website, again to no effect.

So I'm still in the same spot. Any other ideas?

I thought it was interesting that in Xorg.0.log, it shows the glx module being loaded:

<snip>
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
	Module class: X.Org Server Extension
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module  173.08  Wed Apr  2 08:19:55 PST 2008
(II) Loading extension GLX
<snip>

I also thought it was interesting that in dmesg, there are three warnings about nvidia and sysctl, and also three gdm segfaults:

<snip>
[  467.263817] gdm[5677]: segfault at 800690b68 rip 7fd2fc581d1f rsp 7fff07ddca50 error 6
[  590.785835] gdm[7398]: segfault at 800691918 rip 7fbed99f7d1f rsp 7fffe52532c0 error 6
[  624.897281] warning: process `nvidia-installe' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.23.
[  624.897289] warning: process `nvidia-installe' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.23.
[  624.956318] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[  625.209763] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[  625.209770] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
[  625.210384] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  173.08  Wed Apr  2 07:55:48 PST 2008
[  625.233009] warning: process `nvidia-installe' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.23.
[  770.327503] gdm[8901]: segfault at 800689f98 rip 7fc986fa1d1f rsp 7fff927fb8e0 error 6
<snip>

Hope this info is useful, and thanks again to all who have responded.