Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, January 8, 2008 10:15 am, Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, I have a Gutsy AMD64 install, and found the default driver to be
unstable (random lockups needing hard power cycling). So I installed
the latest driver from the nvidia site (100.14.19). The installation
routine appears to go without issue, and I can run startx. On next
reboot, I only get a command line login, startx is unsuccessful, and
need to reinstall the driver again before startx would run.
Weirdness is as follows: I discovered that actually I don't really have
to install the driver, I only need to begin the process! One of the
early screens in the installation says "there appears to already be a
driver installed on your system (version: 100.14.19)" (this is the same
version I'm installing) and asks if you want to proceed. Choosing No
(essentially cancelling the installation of the driver) is enough to now
be able to start X. In fact, all that needs to be done to go from an
unsuccessful "startx" to a successful "startx" is running the
installation command and cancelling the install at the first
opportunity. It's like KDE can't quite remember the driver is installed
and needs a little reminder . . .
I'm having no luck googling and hoping for some pointers on where to go
/ look?
Other possibly relevant info - on attempting to run startx I have got:
Error: API mismatch: this NVIDIA driver component has version 100.14.19,
but the NVIDIA kernel module's version does not match. Please make sure
all NVIDIA driver components have the same version.
Looking in Adept I see that nvidia-glx-new, nvidia-kernel-common and
nvidia-new-kernel-source packages are installed.
Cheers,
Roger
When you boot to command line is the nvidia module loaded?
lsmod|grep nvidia will tell you.
nvidia 4578668 0
so module loaded?
The first error seen, when presented with a text based login prompt,
reports:
kinit: name_to_dev_t (and a long string) =sda6(8,6)
kinit: trying to resume from (same string)
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...
if not, will startx run after running:
sudo modprobe nvidia
No, startx will not:
Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure that there
is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and that the NVIDIA device
files have been created properly.
and further down...
(EE) (screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Again, on starting the driver install, and cancelling on the license
agreement page, I can then successfully startx.
I have also followed John's suggestion to install kernel source
(linux-source package) and this has not changed what I see.
Roger
