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   From: Seaside Peter    
   Subject: Terminally (sic) sick of nvidia struggle   
   Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:41:00 +0000   
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   Been trying for days to get the nvidia drivers up and running.I've tried   
   everything I can find in the way of howtos, to no avail.   
      
   On my latest attempt, I uninstalled everything nvidia I could find on my   
   system, bar the ubuntu nv driver, then ran nvidia's own installer. During   
   installation I get msgs to the effect 1) no precompiled kernel interface   
   was found to match your kernel. The installer then (apparently)compiles   
   the required interface itself, issuing the msg 2)building a kernel module.   
      
   Installation finished with the following msgs 3) unable to create   
   /lib/modules/2.6.17.11-386/volatile/nvidia.ko ; 4)unable to restore file   
   /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-386/volatile/nvidia.ko   
      
   At the end, the installer says installation was completed successfully,   
   alters xorg.conf to include nvidia rather than nv as the driver and   
   reboots.   
      
   Ubuntu is obviously running - but the monitor switches off. I've tried   
   synaptic, envy and automatix, and finished with exactly the same result.   
      
   At my wits' end with it now. Can anybody suggest a way forward?   
      
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