I had a similar problem. If performed an rmmod followed by a modprobe it
loaded the binary drivers instead of the ones that shipped with Ubuntu.
After wasting a lot of time I ended up simply removing the following so
it couldn't find them.
/lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile/nvidia_legacy.ko
/lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.17-11-generic/nvidia
/lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.17-11-generic/nvidia_legacy
Make sure you keep the binary drivers from nVIDIA somewhere handy. When
you upgrade the kernel you'll need to reinstall them and remove these
files again.
Rich
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 20:19 +1100, Heracles wrote:
> I am now trying a 32bit system on my AMD64.
> All works well and many times faster than the 64bit version of ubuntu.
> The only glitch is the NVIDIA driver. I have a GeForce 6200 and when I
> install the proprietry driver I constantly get version mismatch on boot
> BUT (and here is the strange bit) if I start in console mode and run
> startx I get the NVIDIA screen flash up and then all works.
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Heracles
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