Comments on: Ubuntu 8.10 NVidia driver trickery

By: Thijs Lensselink

Thijs Lensselink — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:25:58 +0000

Thanks for the update Jack. I tried it out. Just had to change the PCI location and it worked. Nice snippet to keep in my backup!

By: Jack Bradford

Jack Bradford — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:39:11 +0000

Had exactly the same problem. I used your posted xorg.conf file to manually rewrite my own using nano at the command line, here is what I believe to be the basic code to get it working, for anyone who wishes to do the same:

Section “Device”
Identifier “VideoCard0″
Driver “nvidia” #I dont know if this is necessary or if it just a name
BusID “PCI:2:0:0″ #You may have to try 0/1/2/3 if you dont know the ID of the used PCI slot
EndSection

Section “Monitor” #I think this section may also be arbitrary, but I’m not entirely sure
Identifier “Monitor0″
End Section

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Monitor0″ #This name should match the above defined monitor
Device “VideoCard0″ #This must match the defined videocard above
EndSection

By: Thijs Lensselink

Thijs Lensselink — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:21:39 +0000

Same problem here. i came across the problem more then once. I was just so lucky to have my old xorg.conf laying around. I’m not sure what causes this problem. I would be very interested in a clean solution. Maybe “ziofel” comment is a step in the right direction?

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:14:34 +0000

I had the same exact problem, and found a solution. In fact, I came across the problem again and am looking for the solution again because I forgot. The problem has to do with dkms not rebuilding the nvidia driver module into the kernel in an update of the kernel and video driver. I’ll write again when I get to the bottom of it.

By: Thijs Lensselink

Thijs Lensselink — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:39:19 +0000

Interesting. Will give it s shot next time i do a clean install. Thanks for the post.

By: ziofel

ziofel — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:55:28 +0000

Hello,

I came across this on having this same problem and an easy fix I have found is to disable the onboard video card through bios works excellent and was a quick fix especially for a linux noob like me.

By: Thijs Lensselink

Thijs Lensselink — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:47:53 +0000

@Niklas

Good it helped somebody. I guess the real problem lays with nvidia-xconfig not reconising the hardware. I noticed there’s an update for the nvidia driver. But it’s not released to the public. Maybe this fixes the problem.

By: Niklas

Niklas — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:16:32 +0000

Thanks a million for your post! It saved me. I had given up on getting it to work, and was using old legacy drivers with lousy performance.

It seems indeed as if the 177 drivers mess up xorg.conf. :/ But it seems such a simple thing that they’ll probably have it fixed soon.

Thanks again!

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