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   From: Seaside Peter    
   Subject: Re: nvidia woes again   
   Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:15:25 +0000   
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   On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:02:53 -0500, William Witt wrote:   
      
   > Seaside Peter wrote:   
   >> I may be getting closer to why I can't get the nvidia drivers running on   
   >> my Edgy box...and could do with some pointers.   
   >>    
   >> I removed everything nvidia that I could find, then re-ran the nvidia   
   >> installer. After altering nv to nvidia in my xorg.conf file and   
   >> re-starting X, the usual problem occurred - that is, Gnome runs invisibly   
   >> and the monitor switches off.   
   >>    
   >> But this time, on rebooting in recovery mode, I found a message in the log   
   >> file saying something like "kernel module is .7814 and nvidia driver is   
   >> 9476 (numbers inaccurate - best remembrance).   
   >>    
   >> My question - what bloody module? And how do I update it?   
   >>    
   >> I'm running kernel 2.6.17.11 generic.   
   >>    
   >> Tearing my hair out on this one....   
   >>    
   >>    
   > I got a similar message after the last kernel update.  The 78xx version    
   > is the one included in the restricted modules package.  My understanding    
   > is that the driver must match the kernel module.  I don't do anything    
   > spectacular on my system so I reinstalled the drivers from repos (don't    
   > recall the actual package names) and went with the older modules.   
   >    
   > You may also want to check out the nvidia drivers for the beryl project.    
   >   I tried it a while back, but decided the eye candy wasn't for me.   
   > http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Ubuntu/Edgy/nV   
   DIA#Installing_the_nVIDIA_Driver   
   >    
   > I just had a thought about your monitor woes... Is your card dual head    
   > and if so have you tried hooking the monitor to the other output?   
   >    
   > Will   
      
   Thanks for the input Will... yes, my card is dual head, so I will try your   
   suggestion.    
      
   Perhaps I should also try the legacy driver, since there doesn't seem to   
   be an updated matching restricted module....   
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