-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Jeremy, Jeff and everyone, I have followed the suggestions and succeeded in installing the new drivers but now I have run into a silly problem. I installed the drivers and then went to tty2, logged in and ran startx. Everything works perfectly, Good video acceleration, great resolution, everything great. HOWEVER, if I reboot I get no video (ie. X crashes) with the silly message that the kernel module does not match the kernel - this is strange as the only module I can find is the one that the installer of the drivers compiled (dated August 17). Does the system do something to the modules on the reboot or am I missing something? NOTE: If I go through the install procedure again - X works perfectly in tty2 before but on reboot the same thing happens.
Heracles Jeremy Visser wrote: > Heracles wrote: >> I did that and screwed everything. I now get no X at all. I think it may >> be to do with the nvidia GeForce 6200. The site says that it is >> supported in nvidia-glx-new but after installing I have screwed >> everything. I guess I will try a vesa driver and make a backup of her >> home directory and then reinstall. > > I have had a GeForce 6200 that has worked beautifully in Ubuntu for over > a year. > > One thing, though. If you installed the nvidia-glx-new package, then > wanted to revert back to nvidia-glx, be aware that due to a bug in the > package, it leaves behind an empty file which is used as a switch to > tell Ubuntu what kernel module to load. > > If you want nvidia-glx-new uninstalled, then type this after you do it: > > $ sudo rm /lib/linux-restricted-modules/.nvidia.new.installed > > I struggled with that for hours and hours before finally figuring out my > problem. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGxPnBybPcBAs9CE8RAhivAJ9UPIt7BeW4SqO5DggZ2xdG/4kuIQCggJp3 FdXOeFWB057zzBm4SPN1fwg= =Tr/J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
