NVIDIA and X

[jwhibdon]

I have not been able to recover from the X upgrade that crashed both my Maverick installs (Ubuntu and Kubuntu). I installed a clean version of the Kubuntu Beta. I am just wondering if the Nvidia drivers have been updated to work with the current X11 in the Beta.

[Yuri sss]

Re: NVIDIA and X

Proprietary drivers (nvidia and Ati) don't support the new Xorg 1.9 as of yet. You'll have to use the opensource driver in Maverick for now.
At the latest with the final release of Maverick in about a month, proprietary drivers with support for Xorg 1.9 should be avaiable.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: NVIDIA and X

The current NVIDIA driver works with X-1.9

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show....php?p=2309077

Working fine in my installation.

[mfabry]

Re: NVIDIA and X

Did you installed drivers downloaded straight from Nvidia site or binaries from Kubuntu repo?

[verndog]

Re: NVIDIA and X

Did you installed drivers downloaded straight from Nvidia site or binaries from Kubuntu repo?

Both. I first install 256.53 from nvidia before it was available from the repos. Then someone from the Ubuntu forums mentioned that they were available on repos.

So my Lucid is installed from nvidia and Maverick from the repos.

I like the nivida method because I can use them as carry-out. With testing Maverick I constantly re-install when new iso's become available - using zsync. Just a way to test that ubiquity works and the rest of the install.

Otherwise I have to download them each time.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: NVIDIA and X

Downloaded from NVIDIA.

If you have been using the repository version, you will have to do an apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current or whatever version you are using. You will also need to find the driver module itself, usually nvidia-current.ko, or some similar name, located in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video, or possibly also in lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/dkms. You will need to remove these BEFORE you install the proprietary driver. And you will probably need to do a sudo update-initramfs -u to get the driver out for good. Otherwise, if any of the old nvidia driver modules are around, they will wreck havok with the proprietary driver.

The current NVIDIA driver version is 256.53

[mfabry]

Re: NVIDIA and X

I have nvidia-current 256.53 installed from Maverick repos and all I have (after few low res warnings on startup) is a nasty black screen with no option to switch to another console. I'm pretty disappointed with Maverick so far.

[bitzbox]

Re: NVIDIA and X

I also have nvidia-current (256.53) installed from the Maverick repos and it works just fine here providing I disable the Blur effect in Desktop Effects.

Regards .....

[mfabry]

Re: NVIDIA and X

Lucky you, I can't even get kdm screen. I will also try my luck on older kernel.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: NVIDIA and X

I have nvidia-current 256.53 installed from Maverick repos and all I have (after few low res warnings on startup) is a nasty black screen with no option to switch to another console. I'm pretty disappointed with Maverick so far.

The default NVIDIA driver in Maverick is nouveau, which is installed automatically along with the kernel. You have to disable it in order to use the proprietary driver. This involves two steps, both of which must be done as sudo:
1. Blacklist nouveau. In your /etc/modprobe.d directory, create a file called blacklist-nouveau.conf, and put the following line in it:
blacklist nouveau
2. run sudo update-initramfs -u. Nouveau is embedded in the initramfs, and if you don't do this step, it will clobber your NVIDIA driver.

edit: Oh yes, I forgot, you will also need an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to use the nvidia driver. If you don't have one set up for nvidia, the nvidia-xconfig program will create a bare-bones one.

I haven't used the repository version, so I don't know if they take care of this or not. You might have to do it by hand to get it working.

[bitzbox]

Re: NVIDIA and X

I have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf but I don't have a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf in my Maverick setup.

Regards .....

[doctordruidphd]

Re: NVIDIA and X

I don't have a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf in my Maverick setup

Do a locate nouveau.ko
If it prints out anything, you will have to follow the steps I listed in order to get the nvidia drivers to work.

[jwhibdon]

Re: NVIDIA and X

I better just wait until the drivers from the repo works. I don't have the skills to fix any kind of video problems. I could not even figure how to get the default nouveau drivers back to fix my install when it broke. I just reinstalled a clean Kubuntu Maverick and even that was a problem until I deleted the user directory. The Nvidia driver must have installed something in the user directory because it would hang at the KDM and nothing would get past that. I could not even get the recovery to work until I deleted the home directory.

Thanks for the replys.

john